1 libva-intel-driver NEWS -- summary of changes. 2016-03-15
2 Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Intel Corporation
4 Version 1.7.0 - 15.Mar.2016
5 * Add support for Kabylake
6 - Decoding: H.264/MPEG-2/VC-1/JPEG/VP8/HEVC/HEVC 10-bit/VP9/VP9 10-bit
7 - Encoding: H.264/MPEG-2/JPEG/VP8/HEVC
8 - VPP: CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob, MotionAdaptive, MotionCompensated}/ColorBalance/STD
9 * Add new SKL and BXT PCI IDs
10 * Fix lots of VP9 decoding issues on BXT
12 Version 1.6.2 - 15.Dec.2015
13 * Add support for Broxton
14 - Decoding: H.264/MPEG-2/VC-1/JPEG/VP8/HEVC/HEVC 10-bit/VP9
15 - Encoding: H.264/JPEG/VP8/HEVC
16 - VPP: CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob, MotionAdaptive, MotionCompensated}/ColorBalance/STD
17 * Add support for HEVC CBR on SKL
18 * Fix the broken VA_FILTER_SCALING_HQ on SKL
19 * Fix the incorrect loading of GPU shaders on GEN8/GEN9
20 * Fix the wrong address relocation in VPP on GEN8/GEN9
21 * Fix the wrong VAImage foramt
22 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92088)
23 * Fix YUV to RGB conversion on GEN7/GEN8/GEN9
24 * Fix the segmentation fault causing by NULL buffer object on SNB
25 (The issue mentioned in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92811)
26 * Fix the wrong coordinate used in VPP
27 (The issue mentioned in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92811)
29 Version 1.6.1 - 09.Sep.2015
30 * Wrapper other backend driver to support VP9 hybrid decoding on BDW/BSW/SKL (--enable-hybrid-codec)
31 * Fix HEVC decoding issue on BSW/SKL
32 * Fix HEVC encoding on SKL GT3
33 * Fix GPU hang issue when decoding H.264 MBAFF clips
34 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91207)
35 * Fix issues detected by klockwork scan
36 * Combine csc/scaling together to optimize the performance
38 Version 1.6.0 - 01.Jul.2015
39 * Add support for VP8 encoding (CQP, CBR) on BSW/SKL
40 * Add support for HEVC decoding on BSW
41 * Add support for HEVC encoding (CQP) on SKL
42 * Add support for low-power mode (VA_PROC_PIPELINE_FAST) in VPP to discard
43 any complex operation that would consume too many HW resources
44 * Fix memory leak issue for JPEG decoding
45 * Fix HEVC decoding issue on BSW/SKL
46 * Fix GPU hang issue caused by VP8 decoding on BDW/BSW
47 * Fix MADI/MCDI issues on SNB/IVB
48 * Improve the JPEG encoding quality
49 * Optimize MPEG-2 start code search on IVB
51 Version 1.5.1 - DD.03.2015
52 * Fix forward reference requirement for Bob deinterlacing
53 * Fix a lot of potential rendering issues on GEN8+
54 * Fix scaling of NV12 surfaces when no output_region is set
55 * Fix the broken attribute setting of i965_GetConfigAttrib
56 * Fix the GetConfigAttributes() for JPEGBaseline profile
57 * Fix the wrong overlap setting for VC-1 decoding on GEN6+
58 * Fix VP8 decoding issue on GEN8+, HW needs 1 extra byte for each partition
59 * Fix JPEG encoding issue.
60 * Add support for aub dump
61 * Enhance STD on GEN8+
62 * Implement max width and height in QuerySurfaceAttributes
65 Version 1.5.0 - 28.Dec.2014
66 * Add support for Skylake
67 - Decoding: H.264/MPEG-2/VC-1/JPEG/VP8/HEVC
68 - Encoding: H.264/MPEG-2/JPEG
69 - VPP: CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob, MotionAdaptive, MotionCompensated}/ColorBalance/STD
70 * Add support for JPEG encoding on Braswell
71 * Add enhancement for video post/pre processing
72 * Fix out of tree builds (Emil Velikov)
74 Version 1.4.1 - 24.Oct.2014
75 * Use a new method to detect encoding capabilitiy on Haswell
77 Version 1.4.0 - 30.Sep.2014
78 * Add support for exporting VA buffer
79 * Add support for MVC decoding/encoding
80 * Add support for encoding quality level on Sandybride and newer
81 * Add support of inserting packed slice header & raw data for encoding
82 * Add support for Cherryview
83 * Fix the GPU hang issue on Ivybridge when using the gstreamer and mplayer to play back one H264 clip
84 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80720)
85 * Fix the GPU hang issue on Sandybride and newer when playing back one H264 clip
86 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76363)
87 * Fix the GPU hang issue on Haswell when using XBMC to play back one H264 clip
88 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81447)
90 Version 1.3.2 - 16.Jun.2014
91 * Export JPEG format by vaDeriveImage()
92 * Add support for MADI on SNB
93 * H.264: fix the support for grayscale format (Y800)
94 * Fix vaGetConfigAttributes() to validate the profile/entrypoint pair
95 * Fix vaCreateConfig() to not override user chroma format
96 * Fix the scaling issue on IVB/HSW/BDW
97 * Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73424
98 * Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72522
99 * Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77041
100 * Quality improvement for H.264 encoding on BDW
102 Version 1.3.1 - 09.May.2014
103 * Add support for STE on Broadwell
104 * Add support for YV16
105 * Add support for user specified tiling and stride
106 * Fix VP8 decoding on Broadwell
107 * Fix the wrong alpha when convert NV12 into RGBA
108 * Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77386
110 Version 1.3.0 - 24.Mar.2014
111 * Add support for Broadwell
112 - Decoding: H.264/MPEG-2/VC-1/JPEG/VP8
113 - Encoding: H.264/MPEG-2
114 - VPP: CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob, MotionAdaptive, MotionCompensated}/Sharpening/ColorBalance
115 * Fix the wrong setting in MI_BATCH_BATCH_START
117 Version 1.2.2 - 16.Dec.2013
118 * Motion compensation DI on HSW
119 * Optimization of FPS for H.264 encoding on HSW
120 * Add brightness/contrast/hue/saturation support for rendering.
121 * Support BT601/BT709/SMPTE240 in vaPutSurface()
122 * Expose Constrained Baseline Profile instead of Baseline Profile for H.264
125 Version 1.2.1 - 23.Sep.2013
126 * Add PCI IDs for Bay Trail
127 * Performance improvement for MPEG-2 Encoding on IVB/HSW
128 * Add basic processing support for packed YUV to packed YUV on ILK+
129 * Check the underlying OS support for VEBOX on HSW
130 * Quality improvement for BobDI on SNB/IVB
131 * Add support for Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing on IVB
132 * vaDeriveImage() works for UYVY formats
133 * Fix thread safety issue
134 * Fix GPU hang issue when decoding some videos on SNB
135 * Fix output filter count from QueryVideoProcFilters()
137 Version 1.2.0 - 26.Jun.2013
138 * The new H.264 encoding API on SNB/IVB/HSW
140 - Entropy Coding: CAVLC/CABAC
141 - Rate Control: CQP, CBR
143 - Multi Slice encoding
144 - Configurable GOP Structure
145 * MPEG-2 encoding on IVB/HSW
148 - Configurable GOP Structure
149 * Video process on ILK/SNB/IVB/HSW
151 - CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob} on SNB/IVB
152 - CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob,MotionAdaptive}/Sharpening/ColorBalance on HSW
153 * Implement vaQuerySurfaceAttributes()
154 * Implement the new version of vaCreateSurfaces()
155 - Create VA surface with specified fourcc
156 - Create VA surface from external buffer
159 * Optimize H.264 encoding on IVB/HSW
160 * More reserved PCI IDs for HSW
163 Version 1.0.20 - 19.Mar.2013
164 * Add support for wayland 1.0 protocol (Rob Bradford)
165 * Add global alpha support for subpicture
166 * Add support for IA88/AI88 subpicture
167 * Support up to 4 subpictures for each VA surface
168 * Update PCI IDs for Haswell CRW
169 * Automake 1.13 fixups (Armin K)
170 * Fix libva-intel-driver-1.0.19 display corruption on IVB GT1
171 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57323
172 * Fix decoding with FREXT02_JVC_C.264 on SNB
173 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57720
174 * Fix H.264 decoding broken/visual errors on ILK (Tobias Jakobi)
175 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58875
176 * Fix GPU hung with h.264 video and a resolution of 1920x816 on IVB
177 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59050
179 Version 1.0.19 - 09.Nov.2012
180 * Add support for Haswell
181 * Add raw DRM support (Dmitry Ermilov)
182 * Add Wayland support
183 * Add support for display rotation attribute
184 * Support 4K encoding on IVB and HSW
185 * Drop explicit dependency on X11 and libva-x11
186 * Fix VC-1 decoding when VSTRANSFORM is 0
187 * Fix SIGSEGV caused by use-after-free of the bufmgr (Stéphane Marchesin)
188 * Fix thread safety issue (Gautam)
189 * Fix vaUnlockSurface() for libva trace
191 Version 1.0.18 - 02.Aug.2012
192 * Add JPEG decoding on Ivy Bridge
193 * Add support for a new Ivy Bridge chip
194 * Add support for vaSyncSurface() and vaQuerySurfaceStatus() (Dmitry Ermilov)
195 * Fix decoding of MPEG-2 videos with implicit IQ matrices
196 * Fix concurrent creation of VA objects (MT safety)
197 * Fix decoding of large resolution videos (up to 4K on IVB)
199 Version 1.0.17 - 02.Apr.2012
200 * Add support for IMC1/IMC3 surface formats
201 * Fix rendering of interlaced surfaces
202 * Fix MPEG-2 decoding of interlaced streams (SNB, IVB)
203 * Fix H.264 weighted prediction indicator (SNB)
204 * Fix and simplify calculation of H.264 macroblock bit offset (ILK, SNB, IVB)
206 Version 1.0.16 - 14.Feb.2012
207 * Fix VC-1 bitplane buffer size (SNB, IVB)
208 * Fix VC-1 motion vector modes for Ivy Bridge
209 * Fix MFX_QM_STATE for H.264 flat scaling lists (IVB)
210 * Fix and simplify AVC_REF_IDX_STATE setup (ILK, SNB, IVB)
211 * Fix memory leak of encoder buffers
212 * Fix check for internal VA surface format prior to rendering
213 * Add support for B43 chipset (Alexander Inyukhin)
215 Version 1.0.15 - 28.Oct.2011
216 * Add auto-generated Debian packaging
217 * Fix VC-1 decoding (TTFRM packing)
218 * Fix MPEG-2 decoding on Ivy Bridge
219 * Fix MPEG-2 decoding with sparse QM matrices updates
220 * Fix slice-param & slice-data buffer memory leaks
222 Version 1.0.14 - 28.Jul.2011
223 * Add H.264 encoding support to Ivy Bridge
224 * Add support for VA_SUBPICTURE_DESTINATION_IS_SCREEN_COORD
225 * Fix next slice vertical position for MPEG-2 (#38628)
226 * Fix subpicture scale factor for Y axis
227 * Fix GPU hang when decoding field coded MPEG-2 picture
228 * Fix memory leaks (Edgar Hucek)
230 Version 1.0.13 - 25.May.2011
231 * Add H.264 encoding support to Sandy Bridge
232 * Add MPEG-2, VC-1 and H.264 decoding support to Ivy Bridge
233 * Fix thread safety issues
235 Version 1.0.11 - 14.Mar.2011
236 * Add deinterlacing & scaling support to Sandy Bridge
237 * Add vaDeriveImage() implementation
238 * Fix VC-1 decoding for Main/Simple profiles
240 Version 1.0.9 - 27.Jan.2011
241 * Add VC-1 decoding support to Sandy Bridge
243 Version 1.0.8 - 21.Jan.2011
244 * Add support for IA44/AI44 subpicture formats (#32868)
246 Version 1.0.7 - 17.Dec.2011
247 * Add MPEG-2 and H.264 decoding support to Sandy Bridge
249 Version 1.0.5 - 02.Sep.2010
250 * Add deinterlacing & scaling support to Ironlake
252 Version 1.0.4 - 13.Jul.2010
253 * Add vaGetImage() implementation
254 * Add support for RGBA subpictures
255 * Fix H.264 decoding on Ironlake
257 Version 1.0.3 - 10.Jun.2010
258 * Add H.264 decoding support to Ironlake