VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR(3)

# VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR - Structure describing AV1 per-layer rate control parameters

## C Specification

The `VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_KHR_video_encode_av1
    typedef struct VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR {
        VkStructureType                 sType;
        const void*                     pNext;
        VkBool32                        useMinQIndex;
        VkVideoEncodeAV1QIndexKHR       minQIndex;
        VkBool32                        useMaxQIndex;
        VkVideoEncodeAV1QIndexKHR       maxQIndex;
        VkBool32                        useMaxFrameSize;
        VkVideoEncodeAV1FrameSizeKHR    maxFrameSize;
    } VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR;

## Members

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

- `useMinQIndex` indicates whether the quantizer index values determined by rate control will be clamped to the lower bounds on the quantizer index values specified in `minQIndex`.

- `minQIndex` specifies the lower bounds on the quantizer index values, for each rate control group, that the implementation’s rate control algorithm will use when `useMinQIndex` is set to VK_TRUE.

- `useMaxQIndex` indicates whether the quantizer index values determined by rate control will be clamped to the upper bounds on the quantizer index values specified in `maxQIndex`.

- `maxQIndex` specifies the upper bounds on the quantizer index values, for each rate control group, that the implementation’s rate control algorithm will use when `useMaxQIndex` is set to VK_TRUE.

- `useMaxFrameSize` indicates whether the implementation’s rate control algorithm should use the values specified in `maxFrameSize` as the upper bounds on the encoded frame size for each rate control group.

- `maxFrameSize` specifies the upper bounds on the encoded frame size, for each rate control group, when `useMaxFrameSize` is set to VK_TRUE.

## Description

When used, the values in `minQIndex` and `maxQIndex` guarantee that the effective quantizer index values used by the implementation will respect those lower and upper bounds, respectively. However, limiting the range of quantizer index values that the implementation is able to use will also limit the capabilities of the implementation’s rate control algorithm to comply to other constraints. In particular, the implementation may not be able to comply to the following:

- The average and/or peak bitrate values to be used for the encoded bitstream specified in the `averageBitrate` and `maxBitrate` members of the VkVideoEncodeRateControlLayerInfoKHR structure.

- The upper bounds on the encoded frame size, for each rate control group, specified in the `maxFrameSize` member of `VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR`.

Note | In general, applications need to configure rate control parameters appropriately in order to be able to get the desired rate control behavior, as described in the Video Encode Rate Control section.

When an instance of this structure is included in the `pNext` chain of a VkVideoEncodeRateControlLayerInfoKHR structure specified in one of the elements of the `pLayers` array member of the VkVideoEncodeRateControlInfoKHR structure passed to the vkCmdControlVideoCodingKHR command, VkVideoCodingControlInfoKHR::`flags` includes VK_VIDEO_CODING_CONTROL_ENCODE_RATE_CONTROL_BIT_KHR, and the bound video session was created with the video codec operation VK_VIDEO_CODEC_OPERATION_ENCODE_AV1_BIT_KHR, it specifies the AV1-specific rate control parameters of the rate control layer corresponding to that element of `pLayers`.

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-useMinQIndex-10300
  If `useMinQIndex` is VK_TRUE, then the `intraQIndex`, `predictiveQIndex`, and `bipredictiveQIndex` members of `minQIndex` must all be between VkVideoEncodeAV1CapabilitiesKHR::`minQIndex` and VkVideoEncodeAV1CapabilitiesKHR::`maxQIndex`, as returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoCapabilitiesKHR for the used video profile

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-useMinQIndex-10301
  If `useMinQIndex` is VK_TRUE and VkVideoEncodeAV1CapabilitiesKHR::`flags`, as returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoCapabilitiesKHR for the used video profile, does not include VK_VIDEO_ENCODE_AV1_CAPABILITY_PER_RATE_CONTROL_GROUP_MIN_MAX_Q_INDEX_BIT_KHR, then the `intraQIndex`, `predictiveQIndex`, and `bipredictiveQIndex` members of `minQIndex` must all specify the same value

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-useMaxQIndex-10302
  If `useMaxQIndex` is VK_TRUE, then the `intraQIndex`, `predictiveQIndex`, and `bipredictiveQIndex` members of `maxQIndex` must all be between VkVideoEncodeAV1CapabilitiesKHR::`minQIndex` and VkVideoEncodeAV1CapabilitiesKHR::`maxQIndex`, as returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoCapabilitiesKHR for the used video profile

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-useMaxQIndex-10303
  If `useMaxQIndex` is VK_TRUE and VkVideoEncodeAV1CapabilitiesKHR::`flags`, as returned by vkGetPhysicalDeviceVideoCapabilitiesKHR for the used video profile, does not include VK_VIDEO_ENCODE_AV1_CAPABILITY_PER_RATE_CONTROL_GROUP_MIN_MAX_Q_INDEX_BIT_KHR, then the `intraQIndex`, `predictiveQIndex`, and `bipredictiveQIndex` members of `maxQIndex` must all specify the same value

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-useMinQIndex-10304
  If `useMinQIndex` and `useMaxQIndex` are both VK_TRUE, then the `intraQIndex`, `predictiveQIndex`, and `bipredictiveQIndex` members of `minQIndex` must all be less than or equal to the respective members of `maxQIndex`

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_VIDEO_ENCODE_AV1_RATE_CONTROL_LAYER_INFO_KHR

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-minQIndex-parameter
  `minQIndex` must be a valid VkVideoEncodeAV1QIndexKHR structure

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-maxQIndex-parameter
  `maxQIndex` must be a valid VkVideoEncodeAV1QIndexKHR structure

- VUID-VkVideoEncodeAV1RateControlLayerInfoKHR-maxFrameSize-parameter
  `maxFrameSize` must be a valid VkVideoEncodeAV1FrameSizeKHR structure

Structure Chaining

Extends the structure

  - VkVideoEncodeRateControlLayerInfoKHR

## See Also

VK_KHR_video_encode_av1, VkBool32, VkStructureType, VkVideoEncodeAV1FrameSizeKHR, VkVideoEncodeAV1QIndexKHR

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

Copyright 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

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