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

sudo 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/intel/libva

GmmLib - https://github.com/intel/gmmlib (please check https://github.com/intel/media-driver/wiki/Comparability-with-GmmLib)

Building

Build and install libva master
Build and install gmmlib master
Get media repo and format the workspace folder as below (suggest the workspace to be a dedicated one for media driver build):

<workspace>
    |- media-driver

mkdir <workspace>/build_media

cd <workspace>/build_media

cmake ../media-driver

make -j8

Install

sudo make install

This will install the following files (e.g. on Ubuntu):

-- 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

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

Build Modes

This section summarizes key driver build modes which can be used in the different environment requirements:

Build option	Default value	Dependencies	Comments
ENABLE_KERNELS	ON	N/A	Enable/Disable shaders during driver build
ENABLE_NONFREE_KERNELS	ON	ENABLE_KERNELS=ON	Enable/disable close source shaders (kernels) during the build
BUILD_KERNELS	OFF	ENABLE_KERNELS=ON, ENABLE_NONFREE_KERNELS=OFF	If enabled, rebuild open source shaders (kernels) from sources. Requires ENABLE_NONFREE_KERNELS=OFF

With the above options it is possible to build (table assumes that non-listed options have default values):

No.	Build option(s)	HW Features	Shaders (Kernels)	Comments
1	ENABLE_KERNELS=ON	Yes	Close source (pre-built)	Default, full feature driver
2	ENABLE_KERNELS=OFF	Yes	None	HW features only, include HW decoder, HW VDEnc Encoder (CQP mode)
3	ENABLE_NONFREE_KERNELS=OFF	Yes	Open source (pre-built)	HW features available in prev. mode (ENABLE_KERNELS=ON) and features supported by open source shaders
4	ENABLE_NONFREE_KERNELS=OFF BUILD_KERNELS=ON	Yes	Open source	Same as ENABLE_NONFREE_KERNELS=OFF driver, but shaders are rebuilt from sources

Supported Platforms

BDW (Broadwell)

SKL (Skylake)

BXT (Broxton) / APL (Apollo Lake)

KBL (Kaby Lake)

CFL (Coffee Lake)

WHL (Whiskey Lake)

CNL (Cannonlake)

ICL (Ice Lake)

Default Driver Build Features

CODEC	BDW	SKL	BXT/APL	KBL	CFL	WHL	CNL	ICL*
AVC	D/Es	D/E/Es	D/E/Es	D/E/Es	D/E/Es	D/E/Es	D/Es	D/E/Es
MPEG-2	D/Es	D/Es	D	D/Es	D/Es	D/Es	D/Es	D/Es
VC-1	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
JPEG	D	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E
VP8	D	D	D	D	D	D/Es	D/Es	D/Es
HEVC 8bit		D/Es	D/Es	D/Es	D/Es	D/Es	D/Es	D/E/Es
HEVC 10bit			D	D	D	D	D/Es	D/E/Es
VP9 8bit			D	D	D	D	D	D/E
VP9 10bit				D	D	D	D	D/E

D - HW Decoding

E - HW Encoding

Es - HW + Shader Encoding

* ICL encoding is pending on i915 support on upstream, for more information, please check Known Issues and Limitations #5.

Video Processing	BDW	SKL	BXT/APL	KBL	CFL	WHL	CNL	ICL
Blending	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
CSC (Color Space Conversion)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
De-interlace	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
De-noise	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Luma Key	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Mirroring	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
ProcAmp (brightness,contrast,hue,saturation)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Rotation	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Scaling	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Sharpening	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
STD/E (Skin Tone Detect & Enhancement)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
TCC (Total Color Control)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Color fill	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Chroma Siting		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
HDR10 Tone Mapping								Y

For detail feature information, you can access Media Features.

HW Media Features

Media Features	BDW	SKL	BXT/APL	KBL	CFL	WHL	CNL	ICL
AVC	D	D	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E	D	D/E
MPEG-2	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
VC-1	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
JPEG	D	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E	D/E
VP8	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
HEVC 8bit		D	D	D	D	D	D	D/E
HEVC 10bit			D	D	D	D	D	D/E
VP9 8bit			D	D	D	D	D	D/E
VP9 10bit				D	D	D	D	D/E