Intel® Media SDK

Intel® Media SDK provides an API to access hardware-accelerated video decode, encode and filtering on Intel® platforms with integrated graphics.

Supported video encoders: HEVC, AVC, MPEG-2, JPEG
Supported Video decoders: HEVC, AVC, VP8, MPEG-2, VC1, JPEG
Supported video pre-processing filters: Color Conversion, Deinterlace, Denoise, Resize, Rotate

Important note

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 2017 R2 before you build 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 01org.

FAQ

You can find answers for the most frequently asked questions here.

Table of contents

• License
• How to contribute
• System requirements
• How to build
  • Requirements
  • Build steps
  • Enabling Instrumentation and Tracing Technology
• See also

License

Intel Media SDK is licensed under MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

How to contribute

See CONTRIBUTING for details. Thank you!

System requirements

Operating System: CentOS 7.2 is the recommended and the only tested platform.
Hardware: Intel platforms with integrated graphics:

• Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v4 family with C226 chipset
• Intel Xeon E3-1200 and E3-1500 v5 families with C236 chipset
• 5th Generation Intel® Core™ processors
• 6th Generation Intel Core processors

Please find documentation under the doc/ folder or navigate to Intel Media Server Studio support page.

How to build

Requirements

• Git* (with LFS support)
• Perl* v5.16+
• Cmake* v2.8+
• GCC* v4.8+
• Intel Media Server Studio

Build steps

Get sources

git clone https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK msdk
cd msdk

Set up environment variables:

export MFX_HOME=`pwd`

Configure build with GCC (default) compiler:

perl tools/builder/build_mfx.pl --cmake=intel64.make.release

This will build MSDK binaries and MSDK samples.

If you want to configure build with CLang compiler use the following command:

perl tools/builder/build_mfx.pl --cmake=intel64.make.release.clang

Run build:

make -j8 -C __cmake/intel64.make.release

Enabling Instrumentation and Tracing Technology

To enable the Instrumentation and Tracing Technology API you need either Intel® VTune™ Amplifier installed or to manually build an open source version. You can get ITT source files from GitHub and build it on your own.

Please note that auto detection of the Intel VTune Amplifier configuration is not supported. The next step is mandatory if you want to use this feature: set $ITT_PATH so $ITT_PATH/include/ittnotify.h and $ITT_PATH/libittnotify64.a will be valid paths. MSDK build system will automatically detect it.

See also

Intel Media Server Studio: https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-media-server-studio

Intel Media SDK: https://software.intel.com/en-us/media-sdk