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@onabiull onabiull released this 13 Aug 19:29
MediaSDK-2018-Q2.2
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This release of Intel® Media SDK are part of fully open source release of media stack. Component revisions included into package:

  • Hotfix

    • [#484] Fixed compilation of test_monitor tool with glibc 2.28.
    • [CVS-11239] Fixed typo in pkg-config script.

  • Whats new:

    • This release introduce support for Kabylake, Coffeelake and Apollo Lake families. See the Known Limitations section in release notes for details.
    • Simplified install procedure. Given kernel 4.14.20, just untar and run install_media.sh
    • API 1.26

  • Misc

    • Rendering on X11 broken due to wrong dependency from libva-x11.so and libX11.so see intel/media-driver#150 for details. Following command line "sample_decode h264 -foo.264 -r" would fail with -1. Workaround is to symlink correct library Ubuntu:
    sudo ln -sf /opt/intel/mediasdk/lib64/libva-x11.so.2 /usr/lib/libva-x11.so

    CentOS:

    sudo ln -sf /opt/intel/mediasdk/lib64/libva-x11.so.2 /usr/lib64/libva-x11.so".

  • Limited support on certain platforms:

    • Following functionality only supported on Broadwell and Skylake platforms: H.264 Flexible Encode Infrastructure.
    • Following functionality only supported on Skylake platform: Multi Frame Encode (MFE), HEVC Encode.
    • VP9 decode only supported on Kabylake and Coffeelake platforms.
    • MPEG-2 encode not supported on Apollo Lake platforms.

  • Changes in behavior compared to Media Server Studio 2017 R3 - SDK (version 7.0.16053710):

    • Intel Media SDK and Driver are not compatible with previously released versions of Intel Media Server Studio - Essentials and Professional Editions including HEVC Decode plug-in, HEVC Encode plug-in, HEVC GPU Accelerated Encode plug-in, Premium Telecine Interlace Reverser plug-in, etc.
    • MPEG-2 encode:
      • [37189] Previously Query() function with MFX_RATECONTROL_AVBR mode in input parameters returned MFX_RATECONTROL_VBR. The logic is removed in this release.
    • VPP:
      • [35218] VPP resize of interlaced streams may produce output that is not bit-exact with output of previous release.

  • Additinal limitations specific for open source release:

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