Changes for v0.4.0 :

This release maintains the execution on Intel® Processor Graphics including Linux* Ubuntu* OS.

  • Ubuntu* OS, validated on 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

  • Versions:

    • X264 -> b3aadb76329d3c2aedac85142441476bbe5f002c

    • SVT_HEVC -> ead6fdf7c9ff84511b42fc1658c1654b84d83e4b

    • SVT_AV1 -> v0.8.4

    • GMMLIB -> intel-gmmlib-20.4.1

    • LIBVA -> 2.10.0

    • LIBVA_UTILS -> 2.10.0

    • MEDIA_DRIVER -> intel-media-20.4.5

    • MSDK -> intel-mediasdk-20.5.1

    • FFMPEG -> 7800cc6e82068c6dfb5af53817f03dfda794c568

    • GStreamer* (GST)

      • GST PLUGINS BASE -> 1.18.2

      • GST PLUGINS GOOD -> 1.18.2

      • GST PLUGINS BAD -> 1.18.2

      • GST PLUGINS UGLY -> 1.18.2

      • GST PLUGINS VAAPI -> 1.18.2

      • GST PLUGINS SVT_AV1 -> v0.8.4

      • GST PLUGINS SVT_HEVC -> ead6fdf7c9ff84511b42fc1658c1654b84d83e4b

      • GST PLUGINS LIBAV -> 1.18.2

      • GST PLUGINS ORC -> 0.4.32

    • OPENCV -> 4.5.1

    • DLDT -> 2021.2

    • VA_GSTREAMER_PLUGINS -> 1.3

    • NEO(OpenCL) -> 20.52.18783

    • LEVEL_ZERO -> 1.0.26

  • Intel highlights:

    • Intel(R) Graphics Compute Runtime for oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL(TM) Driver to enable GPU Plugin on DLDT

    • FFmpeg* AV1 VA-API HW decoder support

    • Intel® Gen12 graphics devices support

    • Intel® Xeon® Cascade Lake support

    • Intel® OpenVINO* Toolkit with Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB)

    • Intel® oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) on DLDT

    • Accelerated video analytics with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512), Intel® AVX-512 Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX512 VNNI), and Intel® AVX-512 BFloat16 Instructions (AVX512_BF16) support

Changes for v0.3.0 :

This release maintains the execution on Intel® Processor Graphics including Linux* Ubuntu* OS.

  • Ubuntu* OS, validated on 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

  • New components included:

    • orc: The Oil Runtime Compiler for Optimized Inner Loops

  • Versions:

    • X264 -> 1771b556ee45207f8711744ccbd5d42a3949b14c

    • SVT_HEVC -> ead6fdf7c9ff84511b42fc1658c1654b84d83e4b

    • SVT_AV1 -> v0.8.4

    • GMMLIB -> intel-gmmlib-20.3.2

    • LIBVA -> 2.9.0

    • LIBVA_UTILS -> 2.9.0

    • MEDIA_DRIVER -> intel-media-20.3.0

    • MSDK -> intel-mediasdk-20.3.0

    • FFMPEG -> 7800cc6e82068c6dfb5af53817f03dfda794c568

    • GStreamer* (GST)

      • GST PLUGINS BASE -> 1.18.0

      • GST PLUGINS GOOD -> 1.18.0

      • GST PLUGINS BAD -> 1.18.0

      • GST PLUGINS UGLY -> 1.18.0

      • GST PLUGINS VAAPI -> 1.18.0

      • GST PLUGINS SVT_AV1 -> v0.8.4

      • GST PLUGINS SVT_HEVC -> ead6fdf7c9ff84511b42fc1658c1654b84d83e4b

      • GST PLUGINS LIBAV -> 1.18.0

      • GST PLUGINS ORC -> 0.4.28

    • OPENCV -> 4.4.0

    • DLDT -> 2020.4

    • VA_GSTREAMER_PLUGINS -> 1.1.0

    Deprecated components:

    • FFMPEG_MA_RELEASE -> 0.4

  • Intel highlights:

    • FFmpeg* AV1 Intel® VAAPI HW decoder support

    • Intel® Gen12 graphics devices support

    • Intel® OpenVINO* Toolkit with Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB)

    • TurboJPEG* on OpenCV to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on Intel’s HW

    • Intel® oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) on DLDT

    • Accelerated video analytics with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512)

Changes for v0.2.0 :

This release enables execution on Intel® Processor Graphics.

  • Clear Linux* OS, validated on 32830

  • New components included:

    • dav1d: AV1 cross-platform video decoder

    • gmmlib: Intel® Graphics Memory Management Library

    • libva: Implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)

    • libva-utils: Collection of utilities and examples to exercise VA-API

    • Intel® Media Driver for VAAPI: new user mode driver supporting hardware media acceleration

    • Intel® Media SDK: Plain C API to access hardware acceleration devices

    • gst-vaapi: Collection of VA-API based plugins for GStreamer

    • FFmpeg:

      • Video encoders: hevc_qsv, h264_qsv, hevc_vaapi and h264_vaapi

        • Video decoders: hevc_qsv, h264_qsv, libdav1d

          • Audio encoders: aac

          • Audio decoders: aac and mp3

        • Muxers: mp4,hls,rtsp,dash,mpegts,avi and webm

        • Demuxers: rtsp,dash,mpegts,avi and webm

        • Parsers: h264

  • Versions:

    • X264 -> 1771b556ee45207f8711744ccbd5d42a3949b14c

    • SVT_HEVC -> v1.4.3

    • SVT_AV1 -> v0.8.0

    • GMMLIB -> intel-gmmlib-19.4.1

    • LIBVA -> 2.6.0

    • LIBVA_UTILS -> 2.6.0

    • MEDIA_DRIVER -> intel-media-19.4.0r

    • MSDK -> intel-mediasdk-19.4.0

    • FFMPEG -> n4.2

    • FFMPEG_MA_RELEASE -> 0.4

    • GStreamer* (GST)

      • GST PLUGINS BASE -> 1.16.0

      • GST PLUGINS GOOD -> 1.16.0

      • GST PLUGINS BAD -> 1.16.0

      • GST PLUGINS UGLY -> 1.16.0

    • OPENCV -> 4.1.2

    • DLDT -> 2019_R3.1

    • VA_GSTREAMER_PLUGINS -> 0.6.1

  • Intel highlights:

    • Enable Intel® IPP (ICV version) 2019.0.0 on OpenCV

    • Intel® oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) v1.0.1 on DLDT

  • Runtimes performance:

    • Enable LAPACK(OpenBLAS) support for OpenCV

Changes for v0.1.0 :

Initial release of MeRS, the Media Stack Reference Stack. This release is intended only for CPU processing.

  • Components included (Name and type):

    • Clear Linux* OS, validated on 31410

    • x264: video encoder

    • SVT-HEVC: Scalable Video Technolgy for HEVC endoder

    • SVT-AV1: Scalable Video Technology for AV1 Encoder

    • FFmpeg: collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content

    • GStreamer: framework for streaming media

    • gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good and gst-plugins-ugly: collection of gst plugins

    • gst-libav: gst plugin for FFmpeg

    • gst-video-analytics: gst video analytics plugin

    • OpenCV: Computer Vision Library

    • OpenVINO™ toolkit: Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit

  • Versions:

    • X264 -> 3759fcb7b48037a5169715ab89f80a0ab4801cdf

    • SVT_HEVC -> v1.4.1

    • SVT_AV1 -> v0.7.0

    • FFMPEG -> n4.1.4

    • GST -> 1.16.0

    • OPENCV -> 4.1.2

    • DLDT -> 2019_R2

    • VA_GSTREAMER_PLUGINS -> 0.6.1

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