Intel VA-API Driver Gets H.264 Encoding Improvements For Broadwell

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  • phoronix
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    • Jan 2007
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    Intel VA-API Driver Gets H.264 Encoding Improvements For Broadwell

    Phoronix: Intel VA-API Driver Gets H.264 Encoding Improvements For Broadwell

    Version 1.3.2 of Intel's VA-API driver for open-source video encode/decode using modern Intel HD Graphics GPUs has been released...

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  • amehaye
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2012
    • 137

    #2
    Any news about H.265?
    With 4K screens becoming the norm it seems to be a bit more relevant than H.264.

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    • arekm
      Junior Member
      • Nov 2007
      • 37

      #3
      Broadwell isn't that exciting (yet).

      We would be more interested in improvements for hardware that is actually available like Haswell :-) Are there any or is Haswell already abandoned among new development/new features?

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      • TheLexMachine
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2013
        • 420

        #4
        Originally posted by amehaye View Post
        Any news about H.265?
        With 4K screens becoming the norm it seems to be a bit more relevant than H.264.
        H.265 decoding isn't coming until Skylake with hardware encoding several years away and all 4K content is currently encoded with H.264, so it's far less relevant at this point and will be so for at least another several years while VP9 and H.265 mature.

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        • Wilfred
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 189

          #5
          Originally posted by arekm View Post
          Broadwell isn't that exciting (yet).

          We would be more interested in improvements for hardware that is actually available like Haswell :-) Are there any or is Haswell already abandoned among new development/new features?
          Yeah, I have that feeling too. Is the 3.0 release of the sna driver already out?

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          • deve
            Junior Member
            • Jan 2014
            • 46

            #6
            Does someone know about tools for x264 encoding on linux which use va-api? AFAIK ffmpeg supports only decoding...

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            • deanjo
              Senior Member
              • May 2007
              • 6501

              #7
              Originally posted by TheLexMachine View Post
              and all 4K content is currently encoded with H.264
              Not true, Netflix's 4k streams utilize H.265.

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              • Kivada
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2010
                • 1213

                #8
                Originally posted by amehaye View Post
                Any news about H.265?
                With 4K screens becoming the norm it seems to be a bit more relevant than H.264.
                I'm just wondering if theres going to be a new mPCIe DSP for VP9/h.265 like the Broadcom CrystalHD was for h.264 decoding upgrades to low end gear. I've got some Athlon and E series systems that could use it to stay completely relevant for their tasks for years to come.

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                • hajj_3
                  Senior Member
                  • Feb 2013
                  • 327

                  #9
                  haswell and broadwell will be able to partially hardware decode h265 using shaders but that is only for some parts of the codec and shaders isn't true hardware decoding as that requires dedicated circuitry. There's no chance of getting h265 encoding in broadwell. I doubt it will even be available in skylake. There's no news about VP9 decoding from intel either, would be nice if we could hardware decode that in skylake as youtube is now using that and it uses about 22% cpu for me in 1080p on a core i5 430m 1st gen laptop apu on windows. 1080p h264 videos use less than 4% cpu on windows

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                  • TheLexMachine
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2013
                    • 420

                    #10
                    Originally posted by deanjo View Post
                    Not true, Netflix's 4k streams utilize H.265.

                    http://www.dailytech.com/Netflix+to+...ticle33962.htm
                    We're not talking about Netflix. All downloadable 4K content currently on the web is H.264 and the current GPUs all support 4K decoding of H.264 streams. H.265 encoders are not going to be widely adopted for some time because they aren't very efficient and encoding via software requires massive computing power.

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