Intel Media Driver 2022Q1 Release - 22.3.1

Official quarterly release including some enhancements and key fixes.

Dependencies

• GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-22.1.2
• Libva: 2.14.0

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, RPL-S: Raptor Lake)
• DG1/SG1
• Alchemist(DG2)/ATSM

What's New

Alchemist(DG2)/ATS-M New Features and Enhancement

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

• Enabled encoding support including AV1/VP9/HEVC/AVC/JPEG codec
• Enhanced AV1 decoding robustness for syntax error handling
• Enabled render copy support
• Added Video Processing kernel source code

New Platform

• Added RPL-S platform support

Key Improvement

• Improved VP9 encoding performance for BRC cases on TGL+ platforms
• Added GmmLib compatible check
• Enabled per-gen build for platform customization

Known issues

• Refer to known-issues-and-limitations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Intel Media Driver 2020Q3 Pre-release 20.3.pre8

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-20.3.1
LibVA: 2.9.0.pre2

Intel Media Driver 2020Q3 Pre-release 20.3.pre7

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-20.2.5
LibVA: 2.9.0.pre1

Intel Media Driver 2020Q3 Pre-release 20.3.pre6

GmmLib: intel-gmmlib-20.2.4
LibVA: 2.9.0.pre1