Intel® Media Server Studio - HEVC Decoder and Encoder Release
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1. install sh Installer will guide installation process please follow it e The default top level installation folder for Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decoder and Encoder is opt intel mediasdk plugins Installation Folders Windows Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decoder and Encoder installs under C Program Files Intel Intel R Media Server Studio 2015 R6 HEVC Decoder amp Encoder this is referenced as lt hevc install folder gt in the remainder of this section lt hevc install folder gt Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decoder and Encoder Release Notes this file lt hevc install folder gt Plugin Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC 15dd936825ad475ea34e35f3 54217a6 Decode Plug in dynamic library mfxplugin64 hevcd_ sw dll for Intel 64 architecture and configuration file plugin cfg See SDK User Manual mediasdkusr man pdf from Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK Plug in Distribution chapter Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 8 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation for detailed description lt hevc install folder gt Plugin Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC 2fca99749fdb49aeb121a5b63ef568f7 Encode Plug in dynamic library mfxplugin64 hevce_sw dll for Intel 64 architecture and configuration file plugin cfg See SDK User Manual mediasdkusr man pdf from Intel Media Ser2. and 7 8 better bitrate savings Version 1 15 3 62 e MAIN 10 and MAIN 10 422 range extension profile support added e Look Ahead feature implementation added e Added support for Extended Look Ahead plugin featuring analyses for before encode or VPP session and reuse analyses data for several encoding sessions in multi session scenario so significantly decreases memory utilization and improves performance e Extended look Ahead plugin added API support for B pyramid analyses e TU4 support added featuring middle range encode quality performance optimization e For general performance vs bitrates savings please check HEVC Whitepaper on Product web page Version 1 16 4 95 Added chroma SAO improving quality up to 30 CU 64x64 enabled for all target usages Added Look Ahead by default adding additional 12 frames buffering Support for mfxEncodeStat structure added Support for mfxExtCodingOptionSPSPPS export through GetVideoParam function added Support for user defined SEI messages implemented Support for mfxExtHEVCParam added Support for Range Extensions profile_idc added For speed vs compression ratio quality improvement please see HEVC white paper at Media Server Studio web site https software intel com en us intel media server studio e Intel Xeon E3 128x v4 and 5th Generation Intel Core support added Linux Version 1 11 1 108 e This is Pre Release e Supports TU7 only e GPU accelerated encode
3. of others Page 1 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decode Plug in Windows Version 1 8 1 39 e The very first version Version 1 8 1 54 e Incorrect minimum and suggested number of frame surfaces returned from QuerylOSurf in case of mfxVideoParam AsyncDepth 1 was fixed e Performance issue with enabled Hyper Threading was fixed e Random access point decoding was fixed Version 1 10 2 70 e Support for MAIN 10 profile was added e Performance has improved on 17 in average the best improvement reached on tiled content up to 60 e Robustness of corrupted content decoding was improved e Decoder standard compliance for clips with width or height equal to 1 CU was fixed Version 1 11 3 108 e Decoded order output support was added Version 1 13 4 17 e Improved decoder conformance for MAIN1O profile bitstreams with variable Chroma bitdepth e Improved vps sps sublayer profile info decoding e Aligned PCM macroblock decoding to conform to the latest standard Version 1 15 5 62 e For MAIN 10 profile output always will be P010 even in case real bit depth is 8 for both Chroma and Luma e Fixed cases when sequence of IDR was decoded as one frame Version 1 16 6 95 e Range Extensions profiles 4 2 2 and 4 2 2 10 bit decoding support added e Optimized memory utilization to allocate reference frames based on sps_max_dec_pic_buffering_minus1 flag e mfxExtParamHEVCParam
4. performance vs bitrates savings please check HEVC Whitepaper on Product web page Version 1 16 3 176 e All new features listed for Version 1 16 6 95 Windows are valid for Linux e Improved performance Now performance on Linux is aligned to Windows Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC GPU Assist APIs plug in Preview Windows Version 1 13 1 17 e This is Pre Release Version 1 15 2 62 e This is Pre Release Linux Version 1 13 1 73 e This is Pre Release Version 1 15 3 114 e This is Pre Release Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK Software Library Linux Preview e SW library is available as part of Intel Media Server Studio 2015 R6 SDK for Linux version 6 0 16043166 166 System Requirements Hardware Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 7 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation e Please check Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK for Linux and SDK for Windows Release Notes document for HW requirements Software e Please check Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK for Linux and SDK for Windows Release Notes document for SW requirements Installation Linux e Installation requires full administrative rights e Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decoder and Encoder requires Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK for Linux to be already installed e Unpack HEVC2015 tar gz e Enter to HEVC2015 folder and run the install script
5. support added to provide real stream height and width and HEVC Range Extensions constrained flags Linux Version 1 8 1 22 e The very first version Version 1 10 3 45 e Support for MAIN 10 profile was added e Performance has improved on 15 in average the best improvement reached on tiled content up to 50 e Robustness of corrupted content decoding was improved Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 2 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation e Decoder standard compliance for clips with width or height equal to 1 CU was fixed Version 1 11 2 29 e Decoded order output support was added Version 1 13 3 73 e Improved decoder conformance for MAIN1O profile bitstreams with variable Chroma bitdepth e Improved vps sps sublayer profile info decoding e Aligned PCM macroblock decoding to conform to the latest standard Version 1 15 3 114 e For MAIN 10 profile output always will be P010 even in case real bit depth is 8 for both Chroma and Luma e Fixed cases when sequence of IDR was decoded as one frame Version 1 16 3 176 e All new features listed for Version 1 16 6 95 Windows are valid for Linux e Improved performance Now performance on Linux is aligned to Windows Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Encode Plug in Windows Version 1 8 1 39 e The very first version Version 1 8 1 43 e Encoding quality for chroma components was improved with negligible side effect to
6. which have an order number and are referenced in this document or other Intel literature may be obtained by calling 1 800 548 4725 or by visiting Intel s Web Site MPEG is an international standard for video compression decompression promoted by ISO Implementations of MPEG CODECs or MPEG enabled platforms may require licenses from various entities including Intel Corporation Intel the Intel logo Intel Core are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries Optimization Notice Intel s compilers may or may not optimize to the same degree for non Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 13 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation These optimizations include SSE2 SSE3 and SSSE3 instruction sets and other optimizations Intel does not guarantee the availability functionality or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel Microprocessor dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors Certain optimizations not specific to Intel microarchitecture are reserved for Intel microprocessors Please refer to the applicable product User and Reference Guides for more information regarding the specific instruction sets covered by this notice Notice revision 20110804 Ot
7. 1 10 3 44 e Supported resolution was extended to 8K 8192x4096 Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 4 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation e For Target Usage 7 quality improved at 10 in average performance improved at 15 in average Version 1 11 2 29 e MAIN 10 profile support was added for SW HEVC encoder e HEVC SW encoder average performance vs bitrate savings changed for different target usages 1080p content Core i7 4770 o TUZ performance up 2 1x reaching 30 fps for QPs higher than 27 bitrate savings down 6 in common o TU4 performance up 1 9x bitrate savings up 3 o TUL performance up 2 5x bitrate savings down 0 8 Version 1 13 3 73 MAIN 422 and MAIN 422 10 range extensions profiles support added Extended tiles support added API options to control number of tiles Improved multithreading performance on multi socket headless systems HEVC SW encoder average performance vs bitrate savings improved for different target usages comparing to previous version 1080p content Core i7 4770K o TUZ performance up 1 2x bitrate savings up 10 in common o TU4 performance up 1 3x bitrate savings down 0 8 o TU1 performance up 1 7x bitrate savings up 0 1 Version 1 15 3 114 e CBR AVBR Rate Control Methods improved for 10 bit encoding e Added Look Ahead feature e API extended buffer mfxExtHEVCRegion support added featuring region based encoding for better scala
8. 15 HEVC Decode Plug in dynamic library libmfx hevcd_sw64 so for Intel 64 architecture Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Encode Plug in dynamic library libmfx hevce sw64 so for Intel 64 architecture Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC GPU accelerated Encode Plug in dynamic library libmfx hevce hw64 so for Intel 64 architecture Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC GPU Assist APIs Plug in dynamic library libmfx h265fei_hw64 so for Intel 64 architecture and configuration file plugins cfg See SDK API Reference Manual for HEVC GPU Assists APIs mediasdkhevcgaa man pdaf SDK User Manual mediasdkusr man pdf from Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK Plug in Distribution chapter for detailed description How To Use You can find more information on how to use Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decode and Encode in the following documentation Windows e lt SDK install folder gt doc mediasdk man pdf SDK Reference Manual describes the SDK API including HEVC codec related definitions e lt SDK install folder gt doc mediasdkusr man pdf SDK Extensions for User Defined Functions describes an API extension aka plug ins API that allows seamless integration of user defined functions in SDK pipelines Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 10 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation e lt SDK install folder gt
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10. Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decoder and Encoder Release Notes Version 1 0 6 Overview New Features System Requirements Installation Installation Folders How To Use Known Limitations Legal Information Overview The Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decoder and Encoder is a set of software development libraries plug ins and tools that that expose the HEVC ISO IEC 23008 2 MPEG H Part 2 or ITU T H 265 standard decode and encode acceleration capabilities of Intel platforms Plug ins are not standalone but additional libraries expanding the Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK with HEVC decode and encode functionality The package includes the following components e Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decode Plug in Windows version 1 16 6 95 Linux version 1 16 3 176 e Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Encode plug in Windows version 1 16 6 95 Linux version 1 16 3 176 e Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC GPU Accelerated Encode plug in Windows version 1 16 4 95 Linux version 1 16 3 176 e Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC GPU Assist APIs plug in Windows version 1 15 2 62 Linux version 1 15 3 114 e Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK Software Library moved to essentials package This document covers components features system requirements and known limitations New Features Other names and brands may be claimed as the property
11. bility on multi socket headless system Currently supported only MFX_HEVC_REGION_SLICE region type e HEVC SW encoder average performance vs bitrate savings improved for different target usages please check HEVC Whitepaper on Product web page Version 1 16 3 176 e All new features listed for Version 1 16 6 95 Windows are valid for Linux e Improved performance Now performance on Linux is aligned to Windows Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC GPU accelerated Encode Plug in Windows Version 1 11 1 108 e This is Pre Release e Supports TU7 only e GPU accelerated encoder featuring GPU offloading for motion estimation provides performance CPU utilization improvements compared to SW implementation 1080p content Intel Core i7 4770 o Performance improvement is noticeable for QPs below 30 lesser QP better performance E g for QP 22 GPU accelerated encoder shows 30 average performance gain with 10 lesser CPU utilization Version 1 13 2 17 Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 5 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation e This is Pre Release e MAIN 422 range extension profile support added e This version provides the following improvements with regards to performance bitrate 1080p content Intel Core i7 4770 o Compared to SW encoder at TU7 11 higher performance CPU utilization 75 vs 100 1 3 lower bitrate savings o Compared to previous version 15 higher performance
12. doc mediasdkhevcgaa man pdf SDK API Reference Manual for HEVC GPU Assists APIs describes an API providing access to hardware accelerated functions which can be used in an H265 HEVC encoder Note lt SDK install folder gt folder where Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK for Windows is installed Linux e lt SDK install folder gt doc mediasdk man pdf Intel Media Server Studio SDK Reference Manual describes the Intel SDK API including HEVC codec related definitions e lt SDK install folder gt doc mediasdkusr man pdf SDK Extensions for User Defined Functions describes an API extension aka plug ins API that allows seamless integration of user defined functions in SDK pipelines e lt SDK install folder gt doc mediasdkhevcgaa man pdf SDK API Reference Manual for HEVC GPU Assists APIs describes an API providing access to hardware accelerated functions which can be used in an H265 HEVC encoder Note lt SDK install folder gt folder where Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK for Linux is installed SDK Developer s Guide Intel Media Developers Guide pdf could be found on Intel Media Server Studio 2015 Support the document provides development hints and tips to help developers create media applications using SDK It also covers specifics of plug ins API usage Known Limitations The HEVC Decode Plug in has the following known limitations e Decoding bitstreams
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14. luma component e Run to run variation of encoded stream related to incorrect reconstruction process was fixed Version 1 8 1 54 e Encoding quality was improved e Invalid vps max num reorder pics in VPS header was fixed e Reporting incorrect mfxBitstream FrameType was fixed e Incorrect minimum and suggested number of frame surfaces returned from QuerylOSurf in case of mfxVideoParam mfx GopRefDist 0 was fixed e Performance was improved at 25 in average e RD compression ratio was improved at 15 in average Version 1 10 2 65 e Supported resolution was extended to 8K 8192x4096 e For Target Usage 7 quality improved at 10 in average performance improved at 15 in average Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 3 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation Version 1 11 3 108 e MAIN 10 profile support was added for SW HEVC encoder e HEVC SW encoder average performance vs bitrate savings changed for different target usages 1080p content Core i7 4770 o TUZ performance up 2 1x reaching 30 fps for QPs higher than 27 bitrate savings down 6 in common o TU4 performance up 1 9x bitrate savings up 3 o TUL performance up 2 5x bitrate savings down 0 8 Version 1 13 4 17 MAIN 422 and MAIN 422 10 range extensions profiles support added Extended tiles support added API options to control number of tiles Improved multithreading performance on multi socket headless system
15. not compliant with ITU T H 265 standard or containing corruptions can lead to undefined behavior e Range extensions profiles 4 2 2 10 bit and 4 2 2 8 bit is preview feature The HEVC Encode Plug in has the following known limitations e H 265 MAIN SP profile is not supported in current implementation e Produced bitstreams may be not HRD conformant e Real time encoding not guaranteed Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 11 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation e Application should zero data outside the cropping window on its own or use VPP cropping functionality otherwise encoder can produce not bit exact results between runs e MAIN10 profile encoding decoding and MAIN 422 profile encoding can be done only with system memory at input and output SDK driver limitation for video memory frames allocation e For some specific cases encoder can set level value not compliant with encoded parameters e For 10 bit depth content encoding if real sample data is out of 10 bit range HEVC encode can crash due to internal implementation e 32x32 frame size encoding not supported e HEVC Encode does not support opaq memory with hardware implementation of Media SDK library The HEVC GPU Accelerated Encode Plug in has all the known limitations of the HEVC Encode Plug in plus additionally the following e Is supported only with the hardware implementation of SDK library e Memory utilization is
16. r featuring GPU offloading for motion estimation provides performance CPU utilization improvements compared to SW implementation 1080p content Intel Core i7 4770 o Performance improvement is noticeable for QPs below 30 lesser QP better performance E g for QP 22 GPU accelerated encoder shows 30 average performance gain with 10 lesser CPU utilization Version 1 13 3 73 e This is Pre Release e MAIN 422 range extension profile support added Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 6 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation e This version provides the following improvements with regards to performance bitrate 1080p content Intel Core i7 4770 o Compared to SW encoder at TU7 11 higher performance CPU utilization 75 vs 100 1 3 lower bitrate savings o Compared to previous version 15 higher performance and 7 8 better bitrate savings Version 1 15 3 114 e MAIN 10 and MAIN 10 422 range extension profile support added e Look Ahead feature implementation added e Added support for Extended Look Ahead plugin featuring analyses for before encode or VPP session and reuse analyses data for several encoding sessions in multi session scenario so significantly decreases memory utilization and improves performance e Extended look Ahead plugin added API support for B pyramid analyses e TU4 support added featuring middle range encode quality performance optimization e For general
17. s HEVC SW encoder average performance vs bitrate savings improved for different target usages comparing to previous version 1080p content Core i7 4770K o TUZ performance up 1 2x bitrate savings up 10 in common o U4 performance up 1 3x bitrate savings down 0 8 o TUL performance up 1 7x bitrate savings up 0 1 Version 1 15 5 62 e CBR AVBR Rate Control Methods improved for 10 bit encoding e Added Look Ahead feature e API extended buffer mfxExtHEVCRegion support added featuring region based encoding for better scalability on multi socket headless system Currently supported only MFX_HEVC_REGION_SLICE region type e HEVC SW encoder average performance vs bitrate savings improved for different target usages please check HEVC Whitepaper on Product web page Version 1 16 6 95 Added chroma SAO improving quality up to 30 CU 64x64 enabled for all target usages Added Look Ahead by default adding additional 12 frames buffering Support for mfxEncodeStat structure added Support for mfxExtCodingOptionSPSPPS export through GetVideoParam function added Support for user defined SEI messages implemented Support for mfxExtHEVCParam added Support for Range Extensions profile_idc added For speed vs compression ratio quality improvement please see HEVC white paper at Media Server Studio web site https software intel com en us intel media server studio Linux Version 1 8 1 22 e The very first version Version
18. significantly higher than for software encoder e Maximum supported resolution is 3840x2160 e Linux only due to driver power mode configuration simple encode and transcode workloads may have low performance as driver will keep low GPU frequency when the load is light For predictable performance results you may want to fix frequency at certain level manually To set minimal frequency as root sudo cat sys bus pci devices 0000 00 02 0 drm card0 gt_max_freq_mhz gt sys bus pci devices O000 00 02 0 drm card0 gt_min_freq_mhz To show minimal maximal and current GPU frequency S cat sys bus pci devices 0000 00 02 0 drm card0 gt_min_freq_mhz S cat sys bus pci devices 0000 00 02 0 drm card0 gt_max_freq_mhz S cat sys bus pci devices 0000 00 02 0 drm cardO gt_cur_freq_mhz The HEVC GPU Assist APIs Plug in has the following known limitations e All limitations for HEVC GPU Accelerated Encode Plug in are applicable e Current API is a Preview Pre release version and can be changed in future version Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 12 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation Legal Information THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION ON PRODUCTS IN THE DESIGN PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL PRODUCTS NO LICENSE EXPRESS OR IMPLIED BY ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE TO ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IS GRANTED BY THIS DOCUMENT
19. ver Studio 2015 SDK Plug in Distribution chapter for detailed description lt hevc install folder gt Plugin Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC 5400a06c74d41 5b12d430bbaa23d0b GPU accelerated Encode Plug in dynamic library mfxplugin64 hevce hw dll for Intel 64 architecture and configuration file plugin cfg See SDK User Manual mediasdkusr man pdf from Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK Plug in Distribution chapter for detailed description lt hevc install folder gt Plugin Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC 87e0e80207375240852515cf4a5edde6 GPU Assist APIs Plug in dynamic library mfxplugin64 h265fei_ hw dll for Intel 64 architecture and configuration file plugin cfg See SDK API Reference Manual for HEVC GPU Assists APIs mediasdkhevcgaa man pdf SDK User Manual mediasdkusr man pdf from Intel Media Server Studio 2015 SDK Plug in Distribution chapter for detailed description Linux Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decoder and Encoder installs under opt intel mediasdk plugins by default this is referenced as lt hevc install dir gt in the remainder of this section Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others Page 9 of 14 Copyright 2013 2015 Intel Corporation lt hevc install folder gt Intel Media Server Studio 2015 HEVC Decoder and Encoder Release Notes this file Intel Media Server Studio 20
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