NVIDIA/VideoProcessingFramework
Set of Python bindings to C++ libraries which provides full HW acceleration for video decoding, encoding and GPU-accelerated color space and pixel format conversions observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2456
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- days_push: 814
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1378 stars · 240 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
NVIDIA's Video Processing Framework (VPF) provides C++ libraries with Python bindings for fully hardware-accelerated video decoding, encoding, transcoding, and GPU-accelerated color space and pixel format conversion. It can export decoded GPU frames directly to PyTorch tensors without host-to-device copies, but is now deprecated in favor of PyNvVideoCodec.
Use cases
- decode video with nvidia gpu hardware acceleration in python
- encode h264 video on gpu
- transcode video using nvidia hardware codecs
- convert color space and pixel format on gpu
- export decoded video frames to pytorch tensors without copying to host
When to choose
- you need GPU-accelerated video encode/decode in Python on NVIDIA hardware
- you want zero-copy transfer of decoded frames into PyTorch
- you need pixel format or color space conversion on the GPU
When to avoid
- starting a new project - use PyNvVideoCodec instead since VPF is deprecated
- you need software (CPU) encode/decode or surface format conversion
- you need platforms other than Ubuntu Linux or Windows
- you don't have an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA toolkit and FFmpeg available
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
video-processing image-processing gpu-computing media gpu-computing windows python cpp nvidia cuda hardware-acceleration video-encoding video-decoding python-bindings deprecated pynvvideocodec video linux gpu
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/NVIDIA/VideoProcessingFramework · fetched 2026-08-28 · f5d895d40347
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA/VideoProcessingFramework | main | 10 |
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