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