rocDecode prerequisites

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 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