Intel Media SDK has become an open source project

    imageIn the Intel blog, we have repeatedly talked about the Intel Media SDK - a useful set of libraries for hardware-accelerated encoding, decoding and processing of video data. Now, one can say, the SDK has become more useful for someone, because the source code of its base part was opened under the MIT license and posted on GitHub . We take this opportunity to provide a brief description of this product.

    Intel Media SDK allows hardware-accelerated video encoding in HEVC, AVC, MPEG-2, JPEG ; decode HEVC, AVC, VP8, MPEG-2, VC1, JPEG formats. The list of processing filters currently includes color conversion, deinterlacing, noise reduction, resizing, frame rotation.

    To use the Intel Media SDK hardware platform should be built on the basis of
    a family of processors Intel Xeon E3-1200 v4 chipset C226 , families of Intel Xeon E3-1200 and E3-1500 v5 chipset C236 , or the processors Intel Core of the fifth and sixth generation.

    To date, open source Intel Media SDK components have been tested only with the CentOS 7.2 operating system; community plans include expanding supported hardware and software platforms. The SDK requires a graphics driver installed with Intel Media Server Studio for Linux .

    By opening the Media SDK code, Intel pursued several goals: speed up error correction and implementation of new functionality, improve the quality of the final product, and make porting to other operating systems easier. We hope that all these goals will be achieved.

    The project page on GitHub is here . For other Intel open source projects, see 01.org .

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