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-22.5.4
- Driver: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/releases/tag/intel-media-22.5.4
- Gmmlib: https://github.com/intel/gmmlib/releases/tag/intel-gmmlib-22.2.0
- libva: https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.16.0
- libva-utils: https://github.com/intel/libva-utils/releases/tag/2.16.0
What’s New in Media SDK 22.5.4
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Decode
- Enable HEVC decode HDR SEI parameters parsing.
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Software requirements
- Libdrm 2.4.84 or later
- Kernel 4.14 or later (5.4 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.
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