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@onabiull onabiull released this 10 Apr 19:30
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This pre-release of open source Intel® Media SDK features Media Server Studio 2018 R1 and CentOS 7.4 support. Release highlights available at Intel® Developer Zone article.

Whats new comparing to 1.2a:

  • API 1.25
  • Enhances AVC compression efficiency and video quality features
  • Improves HEVC encode video quality and CPU utilization for multiple media sessions running simultaneously
  • Enabled setting the NALU type for HEVC encoder order mode
  • Enabled the interlaced content encoding for HEVC
  • Increases performance significantly for Sessions Joining API
  • Enabled VPP Deinterlacer to handle content that alternates between Progressive/Interlaced frame, Top Field First (TFF) and Bottom Field First (BFF)
  • Supports CentOS 7.4 - providing new features, security updates
  • Enhanced FEI capabilities:
    • Improved video quality with fade in/fade out by applying multiplicative weighting factor and an additive offset to the motion compensated prediction
    • Enabled the number of repack passes report for H.264 to help bitrate control tuning
    • Added P/I field encoding (first field as P field, second field as I field) to improve quality
  • Preview functionality added to this release Multi-Frame encode APIs:
    • Multi-Frame encode APIs support added helping to improve transcoding dencity in multi-stream scenario, following known limitations apply to current implementation:
    • Only H264 Encode is supported at a moment
    • Optimized only for Xeon E3 1500 v5 series
    • Performance can be worse than usual single-frame in next known cases:
      • 4K resolution encoding
      • N:N with HEVC decode present in pipeline
      • cases where framerates differs significantly like 30 and 60 for different streams
    • Following functionality is not supported with multi-frame encode operation and when set, multiframe will be disabled:
      • When number of slices is controlled by parameters NumSlice, NumSliceI, NumSliceP, NumSliceB.
      • ‘intra refresh’ parameters are not supported.

The current version of Intel Media SDK is only compatible with the Linux* Graphics Driver from Intel® Media Server Studio for Linux*. You need to download and install Intel Media Server Studio 2018 R1 before you build this version of Intel Media SDK. Intel Media SDK depends on a special version of LibVA which comes with Intel Media Server Studio installation and is not in upstream, so this version is not compatible with the LibVA/driver available at 01.org.

Additinal limitations specific for open source release:

SW fallback is unsupported for all components.
Rotation not supported.

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