Media SDK 21.1.3

This release of Intel® Media SDK is part of open source release of media stack. Component revisions included into package:

• Media SDK and Samples: https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK/releases/tag/intel-mediasdk-21.1.3
• Driver: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/releases/tag/intel-media-21.1.3
• Gmmlib: https://github.com/intel/gmmlib/releases/tag/intel-gmmlib-21.1.1
• libva: https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.11.0
• libva-utils: https://github.com/intel/libva-utils/releases/tag/2.11.1

Release validated with:

• OpenCL runtime: https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/tag/21.12.19358 (re-built against intel-gmmlib-21.1.1)

Documentation
Documentation for this release published in release branch.

What’s New in Media SDK 21.1.3

New features:

• API 1.35

  • Added deprecation attributes in API Headers. Please see Intel® Media SDK Reference Manuals for details:
    • Media SDK Developer Reference
    • SDK Developer Reference Extensions for User-Defined Functions
    • SDK Developer Reference for AVC FEI
    • SDK Developer Reference for HEVC FEI
  • Added AVC decode 6-6.2 levels

• AV1 Decode

  • Enabled dynamic gpu session priority

• VP8 Decode

  • Increased max height to 4k

• Samples

  • Changed default memory from opaq to video in sample_multy_transcode
  • Added -fps flag to limit overall fps of pipeline in sample_decode and sample_encode
  • Added support of 1->1 and 1-N transcode scenarios with SFC in sample_multi_transcode
  • Added support for 10bit formats in sample_multi_transcode
  • Added flags for forcing output color format in sample_encode
  • Added UYVY output support for sample_vpp
  • Added NV16 and P210 support in sample_encode

• Misc

  • Enabled github actions

• Software requirements

  • Libdrm 2.4.84 or later
  • Kernel 4.14 or later (5.4 recommended, consult kernel support matrix wiki page for details)

• Known issues

  • Kernel 5.0 have known issue with endurance on Skylake see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110285 for details.
  • Media Stack 21.1.3 with Linux kernel 5.0 may cause higher CPU usage and instability in endurance testing. Issue root caused to media driver see intel/media-driver#671 for details.
  • Media Driver may incorrect report frame QP in Media Stack 21.1.3 for HEVC FEI. See intel/media-driver#1171 for details.

Windows support
Samples and dispatcher supported by Windows Intel(r) graphics driver since TBD (API 1.32 supported by Windows Intel(r) graphics driver since 26.20.100.8141).

• Limited support on certain platforms:
  • MPEG-2 encode is not supported on Apollo Lake
  • H.264 Flexible Encode Infrastructure only supported on Broadwell and Skylake
  • Multi Frame Encode (MFE), HEVC Flexible Encode Infrastructure only supported on Skylake
  • VP9 decoder is supported starting from Kabylake platform
  • VP9 encoder is supported starting from Icelake platform
  • Support for Rocketlake, Elkhartlake and Jasperlake platforms is preliminary and may not be fully functional
  • SW fallback is unsupported for all components but MJPEG
  • Keem Bay require a separate runtime library
  • Some Keem Bay features are specific to this platform and not available on GEN graphics