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Intel® Media SDK for Intel Vision Processing Units (VPUs) provides a plain C API to access hardware-accelerated video decode, encode and filtering on VPU graphics hardware platforms. Implementation written in C++ 11.

Supported VPUs: KeemBay
Supported video encoders: HEVC, AVC, JPEG
Supported video decoders: HEVC, AVC, JPEG

• LibVA - an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API).
• VAAPI Bypass - suite of components with an IA host libVA backend and Intel VPU remote proxy application.

• License
• Documentation
• Tutorials
• Products which use Media SDK
• System requirements
• How to build
  • Build steps
  • Enabling Instrumentation and Tracing Technology (ITT)
• Recommendations
• See also

Intel Media SDK is licensed under MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

To get copy of Media SDK documentation use Git* with LFS support.

Please find full documentation under the ./doc folder. Key documents:

• Media SDK User Guide
• Media SDK Manual
• Additional Per-Codec Manuals:
  • Media SDK JPEG Manual

Generic samples information is available in Media Samples Guide

Linux Samples Readme Documents:

• Sample Multi Transcode
• Sample Decode
• Sample Encode

Visit our Github Wiki for the detailed setting and building instructions, runtime tips and other information.

• Tutorials Overview
• Tutorials Command Line Reference

Use Media SDK via popular frameworks:

• FFmpeg via ffmpeg-qsv plugins
• GStreamer via plugins set included into gst-plugins-bad

Learn best practises and borrow fragments for final solutions:

• https://github.com/intel/media-delivery
  • This collection of samples demonstrates best practices to achieve optimal video quality and performance for content delivery networks. Check out the demo, recommended command lines and quality and performance measuring tools.

Get customized Media SDK products:

• Intel Media SDK for GEN graphics
• Intel Media Server Studio
• Intel Media SDK for Embedded Linux

Hardware

• Intel® 8th Generation (Coffee Lake) Xeon® and Core™ processor-based platform
• Intel® 10th Generation (Comet Lake) Xeon® and Core™ processor-based platform

Software

• Microsoft® Windows® 10 x86-64
• Microsoft® Windows® Server 2019 x86-64
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) x86_64

Hardware

• Keembay VPU

Software

• Yocto Linux aarch64

Get sources with the following Git* command (pay attention that to get full Media SDK sources bundle it is required to have Git* with LFS support):

git clone https://github.com/intel/MediaSDK-VPU msdk
cd msdk

To configure and build Media SDK install cmake version 3.13 or later and run the following commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
make install

Media SDK depends on a number of packages which are identified and checked for the proper version during configuration stage. Please, make sure to install these packages to satisfy Media SDK requirements. After successful configuration 'make' will build Media SDK binaries and samples. The following cmake configuration options can be used to customize the build:

The following cmake settings can be used to adjust search path locations for some components Media SDK build may depend on:

Visit our Github Wiki for advanced topics on setting and building Media SDK.

To enable the Instrumentation and Tracing Technology (ITT) API you need to:

• Either install Intel® VTune™ Amplifier
• Or manually build an open source version (see IntelSEAPI for details)

and configure Media SDK with the -DENABLE_ITT=ON. In case of VTune it will be searched in the default location (/opt/intel/vtune_amplifier). You can adjust ITT search path with either CMAKE_ITT_HOME or CMAKE_VTUNE_HOME.

Once Media SDK was built with ITT support, enable it in a runtime creating per-user configuration file ($HOME/.mfx_trace) or a system wide configuration file (/etc/mfx_trace) with the following content:

Output=0x10

Please refer to Media SDK User Guide.

• In case of GCC compiler it is strongly recommended to use GCC version 6 or later since that's the first GCC version which has non-experimental support of C++11 being used in Media SDK.

Intel Media SDK: https://software.intel.com/en-us/media-sdk