rocPyDecode prerequisites

rocPyDecode has been tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 with ROCm running on accelerators based on the CDNA architecture.

See Supported operating systems for the complete list of ROCm supported Linux environments.

ROCm needs to be installed using the AMDGPU installer with the rocm usecase:

sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm

rocPyDecode has the following prerequisites:

• CMake 3.12 or later

• Python3 3.9 or later

• Python3 pip

• PyBind11

• rocDecode

• FFmpeg runtime and headers

• DLPack

• NumPy, for running tests and samples

rocPyJpegDecode additionally requires rocJPEG.

All prerequisites except for NumPy and rocJPEG are installed with the rocPyDecode-requirements.py script.