rocDecode prerequisites#
rocDecode requires ROCm 6.1 or later running on accelerators based on the CDNA architecture.
ROCm must be installed using the [AMDGPU installer](https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/how-to/amdgpu-install.html) with the rocm usecase:
sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm
rocDecode can be installed on the following Linux environments:
Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04
RHEL 8 or 9
SLES: 15-SP5
The following prerequisites are installed by the package installer. If you are building and installing using the source code, use the rocDecode-setup.py to install these prerequisites.
Note
To use the rocDecode samples, the rocdecode, rocdecode-dev, and rocdecode-test packages need to be installed.
If you’re installing using the rocDecode source code, the rocDecode-setup.py script must be run with --developer set to ON.
Libva-amdgpu-dev, an AMD implementation for Video Acceleration API (VA-API)
AMD VA Drivers
CMake version 3.10 or later
AMD Clang++ Version 18.0.0 or later
pkg-config
FFmpeg runtime and headers
libstdc++-12-dev for installations on Ubuntu 22.04