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-20.2.1
- Driver: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/releases/tag/intel-media-20.2.0
- Gmmlib: https://github.com/intel/gmmlib/releases/tag/intel-gmmlib-20.2.2
- libva: https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.8.0
- libva-utils: https://github.com/intel/libva-utils/releases/tag/2.8.0
Release validated with:
Documentation
Documentation for this release published in release branch.
What's new Media SDK 20.2.1:
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Samples
- Fixed #2190. rotate_opencl plugin switched to recent version of OpenCL C++ headers, validated with OpenCL-CLHPP v2.0.12 and OpenCL-Headers v2020.06.16 / Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications for Windows* 2020.2.487.
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Software requirements
- Libdrm 2.4.84 or later
- Kernel 4.14 or later (5.6 recommended, consult kernel support matrix wiki page for details)
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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 20.2 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.
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 Tigerlake, Elkhartlake and Jasperlake platforms is preliminary and may not be fully functional
- SW fallback is unsupported for all components but MJPEG