Media SDK 22.3.0

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-22.3.0
• Driver: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/releases/tag/intel-media-22.3.1
• Gmmlib: https://github.com/intel/gmmlib/releases/tag/intel-gmmlib-22.1.2
• libva: https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.14.0
• libva-utils: https://github.com/intel/libva-utils/releases/tag/2.14.0

Release validated with:

• OpenCL runtime: https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/tag/22.12.22749 (re-built against intel-gmmlib-22.1.2)

What’s New in Media SDK 22.3.0

New features:

• HEVC Decode

  • FrameRate parameters parsing from VideoParamSet.
  • HDR SEI Parsing

• AV1 Decode

  • Support multiple sequence headers with different resolution.

• HEVC Encode

  • Use VDenc by default for A2RGB10 Input

• 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.

Windows support
Samples and dispatcher API 1.35 supported by Windows Intel(r) graphics driver since 27.20.100.8935 version.

• 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
  • SW fallback is unsupported for all components but MJPEG
  • Keem Bay requires a VPU runtime library
  • The following features are supported by Keem Bay runtime and are not supported by Gen graphics runtime:
    • mfxExtInsertHeaders
    • mfxExtEncoderIPCMArea