Intel Media Driver Q2'19 Release Update 1

Dependencies

GmmLib intel-gmmlib-19.2.3
Libva 2.5.0

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CML/ICL

Key Improvement:

1. Fixed known GPU hang issue when encoding 444 8/10bit in ICL issue#677
2. Fixed several compile warnings.

Intel Media Driver Q2'19 Release

Dependencies

GmmLib intel-gmmlib-19.2.1
Libva 2.5.0

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CML/ICL

Key Improvement:

1. Enabled ICL VE(Virtual Engine) provided huge performance improvement which fully demonstrates 2nd VDBox scalability and maximizes the utilization of all HW engines in ICL+.
2. Tile surface reading TPT is improved a lot by enabling SW swizzling to replace map_gtt in Gen11.
3. Extended VP9 decoding 10Bit 420 support in Gen11
4. Extended HEVC decoding 10bit P010 output support in APL/BXT
5. Improved VP8 encoding accuracy rate when BRC config change.
6. Enabled linear NV12/YUY2 input support in VP
7. Fixed series of GPU hang issue#576, issue#601, issue#602, issue#603, issue#608 by PR#600
8. Fixed ffmpeg-vaapi VP8 encoding exception issue#578 by PR#622
9. Fixed ffmpeg-vaapi encoding memory leak issue#611 by PR#619
10. Fixed advanced profile VC1 decoding issue

Known Issue:

1. GPU hang when encoding 444 8/10bit in ICL issue#677, which could be resolved by intel-media-19.2 commit#6cc99540

Intel Media Driver Pre-release 19.2.pre5

Gmmlib: 2818bfb6f46089dce037995d554d491e2c0b6b26
Libva: 7071bb35a45150786b15c4c20c61cfc3696c73b2

Intel Media Driver Pre-release 19.2.pre4

Gmmlib: 2818bfb6f46089dce037995d554d491e2c0b6b26
Libva: 520b9e54f95d722654ccf034f01a7f5bc043d338

Intel Media Driver Pre-release 19.2.pre3

Libva: 520b9e54f95d722654ccf034f01a7f5bc043d338
Gmmlib: 03202a0208630e5dcac1439b0ed0544167f91ece

Intel Media Driver Pre-release 19.2.pre2

Libva: b2e1965026c17066733ddd097be915308e1079f8
Gmmlib: 50707fb182bc8fc8f9711d2c0da96f6ded1b8ef4

Intel Media Driver Q1'19 Release

Dependencies

GmmLib intel-gmmlib-19.1.2
Libva 2.4.1

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CML/ICL

Key Fixes:

1. Added missing CML device IDs.
2. Added format Y410/Y210/AYUV and Main444/Main444_10 profiles for ICL HEVC decoding. (issue#431/issue#375/issue#417)
3. Updated VP8 media encoding kernel in Gen9 for avoiding wrong partition number .
4. Kept VP8 HW encoding bit-rate setting updated after reset bit-rate from application.
5. Ignored decoding output status for JPEG because it is unnecessary.
6. Registered reconstruct surfaces for VP8 encoding in Gen9.
7. Added VA_RC_MB flag for low power HEVC encoding and fix GPU hang issue. (issue#361)
8. Fixed dwNumSlice when destroy AVC bit stream buffer from application because of scrubbing playback.
9. Enabled Downscaling and low power encoding for ICLLP AVC VDEnc.
10. Added I420 format for JPEG decoding.
11. Set sub-slice mask according to the per-context SSEU value for ICL.
12. Fixed segment fault issue in JPEG encoding.
13. Corrected partition lengths for MFD_VP8_BSD_OBJECT commands.
14. Enabled AVC low power encoding BRC mode in ICL.
15. Distinguished VA memory type from external buffer flag
16. Enabled motion adaption BRC for game streaming and AVC low power encoding TCBRC enabling in Gen9.
17. Enabled Clang build strict check flags.
18. Added HME (hierarchical motion estimation) open source shader kernel for ICL AVC and HEVC low power encoding.
19. Enabled ICL shader encoding for AVC, HEVC, MPEG and VP8.
20. Added XRGB format support for video processing. (issue#534)

Intel Media Driver Pre-release 19.2.pre1

Libva: 4d9d819d4859bf2fe2554d2619ddbf21cbedb90c
Gmmlib: 50707fb182bc8fc8f9711d2c0da96f6ded1b8ef4

Intel Media Driver Q4'18 Release Update 1

Dependencies

GmmLib intel-gmmlib-18.4.1
Libva 2.4.0

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CNL/ICL

Improvements

Added more device ID for CFL and WHL

Intel Media Driver Q4'18 Release

Dependencies

GmmLib intel-gmmlib-18.4.1
Libva 2.4.0

Supported Platforms

BDW/SKL/APL(BXT)/KBL/CFL/WHL/CNL/ICL

Improvements

1. WHL: Added WHL support and enabled its VP8 encoding.
2. ICL: Added ICL open source compute shaders for video processing. Enabled ICL HDR10 Tone Mapping using close source compute shaders.
3. DRM uAPI relative code is refactored to better comply to i915 Open Source Userspace Requirement.
4. Added X11 build option detection.
5. Enabled software swizzling support to improve surface reading performance of vaGetImage.
6. Added ARGB,Y410 image format support.
7. Added versioning information to CMRT library.
8. BRC enhancement:
   • AVC hardware encoding: added QVBR support.
   • AVC shader encoding: added AVBR and max frame size BRC support.
   • VP8 encoding: corrected fps calculation error.

Fixed issues:

1. GStreamer/gstreamer-vaapi integration:
   • Fixed the issue about KBL HEVC P010_10LE encoding kernel state initialization failure for CODECHAL_HEVC_MBENC_PENC.
   • Fixed the issue about aspect ratio being unable to retain in video processsing PutSurface for vaapisink display.
2. Corrected RT format reporting for HEVC main10 profile.
3. Corrected caps reporting of max width/height for VP9 decoding from 2k (2048x2048) to 8k (8192x8192).