19 Jan 08:47

Sherry-Lin

31c1b99

Intel Media Driver 2021Q4 Release - 22.1.1

Official quarterly release including some enhancements and key fixes.

Dependencies

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-22.0.1
Libva: 2.13.0

Supported Platforms

BDW (Broadwell)
SKL (Skylake)
BXTx (BXT: Broxton, APL: Apollo Lake, GLK: Gemini Lake)
KBLx (KBL: Kaby Lake, CFL: Coffe Lake, WHL: Whiskey Lake, CML: Comet Lake, AML: Amber Lake)
ICL (Ice Lake)
JSL (Jasper Lake) / EHL (Elkhart Lake)
TGLx (TGL: Tiger Lake, RKL: Rocket Lake, ADL-S/P/N: Alder Lake)
DG1/SG1
Alchemist(DG2)/ATS-M(Arctic Sound Mainstream)

What's New

New Features and Enhancement

List of new features comparing to previous release as below. You could refer to Readme for more information.

Enabled Alchemist/ATS-M platform decoding and video processing features
Added ADL-N platform support
Enhanced AV1 decoding robustness for error clips handling
Added vaCopy caps reporting
Enabled GPU copy for small resolution in vaMap/unMap
Optimized GetImage perf for NV12 format
Added HEVC sub-features caps reporting
Improved compatibility by disabling compression when creating surface
Improved debuggability by enabling OCA support

Key Fixes

Fixed multiple layer composition corruption issue
Fixed OCA stability issue in multi-thread scenario
Fixed render copy mem leak

Known issues

Refer to known-issues-and-limitations.

Assets 2

12 Oct 13:46

Sherry-Lin

intel-media-21.3.5

ec4dc5d

Intel Media Driver 2021Q3 Release - 21.3.5

Official quarterly release including some enhancements and key fixes.

Dependencies

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-21.3.1
Libva: 2.13.0

Supported Platforms

BDW (Broadwell)
SKL (Skylake)
BXTx (BXT: Broxton, APL: Apollo Lake, GLK: Gemini Lake)
KBLx (KBL: Kaby Lake, CFL: Coffe Lake, WHL: Whiskey Lake, CML: Comet Lake, AML: Amber Lake)
ICL (Ice Lake)
JSL (Jasper Lake) / EHL (Elkhart Lake)
TGLx (TGL: Tiger Lake, RKL: Rocket Lake, ADL-S/P: Alder Lake)
DG1/SG1

What's New

List of new features comparing to previous release as below. You could refer to Readme for more information.

Enabled vaCopy by GPU HW
Added 0YUV decode output format support

Known issues

Refer to known-issues-and-limitations.

Assets 2

30 Jun 09:04

Sherry-Lin

intel-media-21.2.3

008fb3b

Intel Media Driver 2021Q2 Release - 21.2.3

Official quarterly release including some enhancements and key fixes.

Dependencies

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-21.2.1
Libva: 2.12.0

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CML/ICL/EHL/JSL/TGL/RKL/DG1/SG1/ADL-S/ADL-P

What's New

TGL/RKL/DG1/SG1/ADL-S/ADL-P New Features and Enhancement

List of new features comparing to previous release as below. You could refer to Readme for more information.

Enhanced robustness for AV1 decode error cases
Enabled MBQP in ForceQP mode for AVC VDEnc
Enabled Planar BGR and RGB surface output for video analytics usage
Enabled 3DLUT(Three Dimensional Look Up Table) for HDR usage

Key Fixes

Video Processing

Fixed Tone Mapping Corruption issue of HDR10 P010 to SDR NV12

Known issues

Refer to known-issues-and-limitations.

Assets 2

02 Apr 15:12

Sherry-Lin

intel-media-21.1.3

bec8e13

Intel Media Driver 2021Q1 Release - 21.1.3

Official quarterly release including some enhancements and key fixes.

Dependencies

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-21.1.1
Libva: 2.11.0

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CML/ICL/EHL/JSL/TGL/RKL/DG1/SG1/ADL-S/ADL-P

What's New

TGL/RKL/DG1/SG1/ADL-S/ADL-P New Features

List of new features comparing to previous release as below. You could refer to Readme for more information.

Optimized AV1 Decode software latency
Enhanced AV1 Decode robustness for error clip
Put render/VEBOX heap in local memory if needed on DGFX

Key Fixes

Decoding

Fixed AV1 Decode corruption issue

HEVC VME Encoding

Fixed HEVC Encoder resolution threshold issue
Fixed HEVC Encoder active polling latency issue

VP9 VDEnc Encoding

Corrected for VAConfigAttribEncPackedHeaders capability
Enabled encoding MxN tile configurations on a single VDBox

Video Processing

Fixed NV12 interlaced scaling alignment issue

Known issues

Refer to known-issues-and-limitations.

Assets 2

31 Dec 14:43

Sherry-Lin

intel-media-20.4.5

74e2f11

Intel Media Driver 2020Q4 Release - 20.4.5

Official quarterly release including some enhancements and key fixes.

Dependencies

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-20.4.1
Libva: 2.10.0

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CML/ICL/EHL/JSL/TGL/RKL/DG1/SG1

What's New

TGL/RKL/DG1/SG1 New Features and Enhancement

List of new features comparing to previous release as below. You could refer to Readme for more information.

Enabled VP8 Decode
Enabled film grain internal buffer array
Enabled HEVC VME P Frames support
Enabled AVC VDEnc TCBRC support
Improved synchronization mechanism for compressed resource destroy
Enabled Execution Unit (EU) fused dispatch for 8K processing

Other Platforms Enhancement

Video Processing

Enhanced surface dump for debuggability

Key Fixes

Decoding

Fixed VP9 playback corruption issue when MMC enabled

HEVC VME Encoding

Fixed BRC reset issue

VP9 VDEnc Encoding

Fixed tile LCU streamout offset issue
Fixed temporal scalability dumps issue

Video Processing

Fixed DI corruption issue
Fixed iscaling issue
Fixed memory leak issue in Render Hal

Known issues

Refer to known-issues-and-limitations.

Assets 2

30 Sep 14:57

Sherry-Lin

intel-media-20.3.0

86ec0b6

Intel Media Driver Q3'2020 Release

Official quarterly release including some enhancements and key fixes.

Dependencies

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-20.3.2
Libva: 2.9.0

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CML/ICL/EHL/JSL/TGL/RKL/DG1/SG1

What's New

TGL/RKL/DG1/SG1 New Features and Enhancement

List of new features comparing to previous release as below. You could refer to Readme for more information.

Enabled AV1 4:2:0 8bit and 10bit decoding for both driver and MSDK, up to 8K video decoding and 16K still picture decoding.
Added Y212 and Y412 color format support for 12 bit decoding.
Added several RePAK related changes for VP9 performance improvements including Pak-only RePAK and adaptive-RePAK
Reconstructed Surface Variant formats configuration is now handled by the media-driver
Added HuC Error Status Report improvements for VP9 VDEnc encoding
Added scaling interpolation method(nearest, bilinear, advanced)
Added resource usage type to specify cache policy usage
Enabled SFC bilinear scaling.

Other Platforms Enhancement

Video Processing

Added X2RGB10 and X2BGR10 support in vaQuerySurfaceAttributes
Enhanced sharpness and CSC on JSL/EHL
Enhanced planar RGB surface sharing via vaExportSurfaceHandle

Key Fixes

HEVC VME Encoding

Fixed the memory growth issue.

VP9 VDEnc Encoding

Fixed issue where unaligned resolutions specified from application level would prevent encoding from working
Fixed some performance issues due to resource contention in CodecHAL
Fixed MMC related critical section hang issue in Free Kernel build

Legacy Encoding

Fixed h264e corruption issue due to padding offset (when input surface format is nv12 tile-Y and height does not meet the alignment)

Video Processing

Fixed color Fill issue
Fixed VP context leak issue in DdiMedia_GetImage
Fixed composition issue
Fixed pitch issue with Denoise only

Known issues

VP8 decode output corruption issues#1028 could be fixed by ffmpeg#eb6bb8f.
Surface sharing interface upgrade is necessary for DMA buffer sharing, detail in issue#997.
Others refer to known-issues-and-limitations.