oneVPL GPU Runtime 21.3.4

This release of Intel® oneVPL GPU Runtime is part of open source release of media stack. Component revisions included into package:

• oneVPL GPU Runtime: https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneVPL-intel-gpu/releases/tag/intel-onevpl-21.3.4
• oneVPL Dispatcher and Samples: https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneVPL/releases/tag/v2021.6.0
• Driver: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/releases/tag/intel-media-21.3.4
• Gmmlib: https://github.com/intel/gmmlib/releases/tag/intel-gmmlib-21.3.1
• libva: https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.13.0
• libva-utils: https://github.com/intel/libva-utils/releases/tag/2.12.0

Release validated with:

• OpenCL runtime: https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/tag/21.38.21026 (re-built against intel-gmmlib-21.3.1)

What’s New in oneVPL GPU Runtime 21.3.4

New features:

• VP9 Encode

  • Added WebRTC mode.

• HEVC Encode

  • Enable GPU weighted prediction.
  • Added BGR color format.
  • Switched HEVCe LPLA to EncTools usage.

• AVC Encode

  • Integrated HVS denoise into AVC encoder.

• EncTools

  • Enabled EncTools Library
  • Added ET BRC for HEVCe, including LPLA-assisted ET BRC and Persistence Adaptive Quantization.
  • Implemented ET control via EXTBRC and LADepth.
  • Added mechanism to disable AdaptiveB/ACQM via CO.AdaptiveB/AdaptiveCQM.
  • Added AGOP for HEVCe.
  • Added closed GOP support for LPLA.

• VPP

  • Added helper that should facilitate the use of VP features.
  • Added mfxExtVideoSignalInfo(VideoFullRange, ColourPrimaries) support.
  • Enabled HVS Denoise Filter.

• Misc

  • Added clang-12 for github actions.
  • Adeed MFX traces to CM.
  • Removed opaque memory.