Intel(R) Media Driver for VAAPI

Introduction

The Intel(R) Media Driver for VAAPI is a new VA-API (Video Acceleration API) user mode driver supporting hardware accelerated decoding, encoding, and video post processing for GEN based graphics hardware.

License

The Intel(R) Media Driver for VAAPI is distributed under the MIT license with portions covered under the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:

https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

&

https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

Prerequisites

For Ubuntu 16.04 and above

# apt install autoconf libtool libdrm-dev xorg xorg-dev openbox libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dev

Equivalents for other distributions should work.

Dependencies

Libva - https://github.com/01org/libva

GmmLib - https://github.com/intel/gmmlib

Building

1. Build and install libva master commit df544cd5a31e54d4cbd33a391795a8747ddaf789
2. Get gmmlib and media repo and format the workspace folder as below:

<workspace>
    |- gmmlib
    |- media-driver

$ mkdir <workspace>/build

$ cd <workspace>/build

$ cmake ../media-driver \
-DMEDIA_VERSION="2.0.0" \
-DBUILD_ALONG_WITH_CMRTLIB=1 \
-DBS_DIR_GMMLIB=`pwd`/../gmmlib/Source/GmmLib/ \
-DBS_DIR_COMMON=`pwd`/../gmmlib/Source/Common/ \
-DBS_DIR_INC=`pwd`/../gmmlib/Source/inc/ \
-DBS_DIR_MEDIA=`pwd`/../media-driver

Alternatively, copy

<workspace>/media-driver/unified_cmake.sh

into

<workspace>/build

then run

$ ./unified_cmake.sh

$ make -j8

Install

$ sudo make install

This will install the following files:

-- Installing: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
-- Installing: /etc/profile.d/intel-media.sh
-- Installing: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/igfxcmrt64.so

Note that ‘make install’ only supports Ubuntu at this time. For other distributions, please locate the following files:

<workspace>/build/media_driver/iHD_drv_video.so
<workspace>/build/cmrtlib/linux/igfxcmrt64.so

and copy them to proper system path (instead of using ‘make install’ directly).

For iHD_drv_video.so please export related LIBVA environment variables.

export LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH=<path-contains-iHD_drv_video.so>
export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD

Supported Platforms

BDW (Broadwell)

SKL (Skylake)

CNL (Cannonlake)

Supported Codecs

CODEC	D/E	Platform(s)
H.264	D	BDW/SKL/CNL
H.264	E	BDW/SKL
MPEG-2	D	BDW/SKL/CNL
MPEG-2	E	BDW/SKL
VC-1	D	BDW/SKL/CNL
JPEG	D	BDW/SKL/CNL
JPEG	E	SKL
VP8	D	BDW/SKL/CNL
HEVC	D	SKL/CNL
HEVC	E	SKL
HEVC 10bit	D	CNL
VP9 10bit	D	CNL

Known Issues and Limitations

1. CNL: Hardware accelerated encoding is not supported in the first release.

2. SKL: Green or other incorrect color will be observed in output frames when using YV12/I420 as input format for csc/scaling/blending/rotation, etc. on Ubuntu 16.04 stock (with kernel 4.10). The issue can be addressed with the kernel patch: WaEnableYV12BugFixInHalfSliceChicken7 commit 0b71cea29fc29bbd8e9dd9c641fee6bd75f6827

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