Mandatory APIs and Functions#

Disclaimer#

Developers can implement any subset of the Intel^® VPL API. The specification makes no claim about what encoder, decoder, VPP filter, or any other underlying features are mandatory for the implementation. The Intel^® VPL API is designed such that users have several options to discover capabilities exposed by the implementation:

Before or after session creation: Users can get a list of supported encoders, decoders, VPP filters, correspondent color formats, and memory types with the help of the MFXEnumImplementations() function. For more details, see Intel® VPL Dispatcher Interactions.
After session is created: Users can call Query functions to obtain low level implementation capabilities.

Attention

The legacy Intel^® Media Software Development Kit implementation does not support the first approach to obtain capabilities.

Exported Functions#

The Exported Functions table lists all functions that must be exposed by any Intel^® Video Processing Library implementation. The realization of all listed functions is mandatory; most functions may return mfxStatus::MFX_ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED.

Note

Functions MFXInit() and MFXInitEx() are not required to be exported.

See Mandatory APIs for details about which functions, in which conditions, must not return mfxStatus::MFX_ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED.

Exported Functions#
Function	API Version
`MFXClose()`	1.0
`MFXQueryIMPL()`	1.0
`MFXQueryVersion()`	1.0
`MFXJoinSession()`	1.1
`MFXDisjoinSession()`	1.1
`MFXCloneSession()`	1.1
`MFXSetPriority()`	1.1
`MFXGetPriority()`	1.1
`MFXVideoCORE_SetFrameAllocator()`	1.0
`MFXVideoCORE_SetHandle()`	1.0
`MFXVideoCORE_GetHandle()`	1.0
`MFXVideoCORE_SyncOperation()`	1.0
`MFXVideoENCODE_Query()`	1.0
`MFXVideoENCODE_QueryIOSurf()`	1.0
`MFXVideoENCODE_Init()`	1.0
`MFXVideoENCODE_Reset()`	1.0
`MFXVideoENCODE_Close()`	1.0
`MFXVideoENCODE_GetVideoParam()`	1.0
`MFXVideoENCODE_GetEncodeStat()`	1.0
`MFXVideoENCODE_EncodeFrameAsync()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_Query()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_DecodeHeader()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_QueryIOSurf()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_Init()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_Reset()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_Close()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_GetVideoParam()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_GetDecodeStat()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_SetSkipMode()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_GetPayload()`	1.0
`MFXVideoDECODE_DecodeFrameAsync()`	1.0
`MFXVideoVPP_Query()`	1.0
`MFXVideoVPP_QueryIOSurf()`	1.0
`MFXVideoVPP_Init()`	1.0
`MFXVideoVPP_Reset()`	1.0
`MFXVideoVPP_Close()`	1.0
`MFXVideoVPP_GetVideoParam()`	1.0
`MFXVideoVPP_GetVPPStat()`	1.0
`MFXVideoVPP_RunFrameVPPAsync()`	1.0
`MFXVideoCORE_QueryPlatform()`	1.19
`MFXQueryAdapters()`	1.31
`MFXQueryAdaptersDecode()`	1.31
`MFXQueryAdaptersNumber()`	1.31
`MFXMemory_GetSurfaceForVPP()`	2.0
`MFXMemory_GetSurfaceForEncode()`	2.0
`MFXMemory_GetSurfaceForDecode()`	2.0
`MFXQueryImplsDescription()`	2.0
`MFXReleaseImplDescription()`	2.0
`MFXInitialize()`	2.0
`MFXMemory_GetSurfaceForVPPOut()`	2.1
`MFXVideoVPP_ProcessFrameAsync()`	2.1
`MFXVideoDECODE_VPP_Init()`	2.1
`MFXVideoDECODE_VPP_DecodeFrameAsync()`	2.1
`MFXVideoDECODE_VPP_Reset()`	2.1
`MFXVideoDECODE_VPP_GetChannelParam()`	2.1
`MFXVideoDECODE_VPP_Close()`	2.1

Mandatory APIs#

All implementations must implement the APIs listed in the Mandatory APIs table:

Mandatory APIs#
Functions	Description
`MFXInitialize()` `MFXClose()`	Required functions for the dispatcher to create a session.
`MFXQueryImplsDescription()` `MFXReleaseImplDescription()`	Required functions for the dispatcher to return implementation capabilities.
`MFXVideoCORE_SyncOperation()`	Required function for synchronization of asynchronous operations.

If the implementation exposes any encoder, decoder, or VPP filter, it must implement the corresponding mandatory APIs, as described in the Mandatory Encode, Decode, VPP and Decode+VPP APIs tables:

Mandatory Encode APIs#
Functions	Description
`MFXVideoENCODE_Init()` `MFXVideoENCODE_Close()` `MFXVideoENCODE_Query()` `MFXVideoENCODE_EncodeFrameAsync()`	Required functions if the implementation implements any encoder.

Mandatory Decode APIs#
Functions	Description
`MFXVideoDECODE_Init()` `MFXVideoDECODE_Close()` `MFXVideoDECODE_Query()` `MFXVideoDECODE_DecodeFrameAsync()`	Required functions if the implementation implements any decoder.

Mandatory VPP APIs#
Functions	Description
`MFXVideoVPP_Init()` `MFXVideoVPP_Close()` `MFXVideoVPP_Query()` `MFXVideoVPP_RunFrameVPPAsync()` or `MFXVideoVPP_ProcessFrameAsync()`	Required functions if the implementation implements any VPP filter.

Mandatory Decode+VPP APIs#
Functions	Description
`MFXVideoDECODE_VPP_Init()` `MFXVideoDECODE_VPP_DecodeFrameAsync()` `MFXVideoDECODE_VPP_Close()`	Required functions if the implementation implements any Decode+VPP component.

Note

Mandatory functions must not return the MFX_ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED status.

If at least one of the encoder, decoder, or VPP filter functions is implemented, the MFXQueryImplsDescription() function must return a valid mfxImplDescription structure instance with mandatory capabilities of the implementation, including decoder, encoder, or VPP capabilities information.

If the implementation supports internal memory allocation by exposing at least one of the function from that family: internal memory allocation and management API then implementation of whole scope of the mfxFrameSurfaceInterface structure as a part of the mfxFrameSurface1 is mandatory.

Any other functions or extension buffers are optional for the implementation.

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