intel-vaapi-driver 1.8.0

This release brings quite number of changes and fixes, the most notable is the new AVC encoder on SkyLake+ and VP8 encoder on Braswell+ which bring great improvement for AVC/VP8 encoding quality and add support for VBR encoding

Version 1.8.0 - 31.Mar.2017

• Improve the quality of the H.264 encoder on SKL+ for CQP and CBR mode
• Improve the quality of the VP8 encoder on BSW+ for CQP and CBR mode
• Add support for H.264 VBR mode on SKL+
• Add support for VP8 VBR mode on BSW+
• Add support for low-power H.264 encoder on BXT and KBL
• Add support for CBR / VBR with low-power H.264 encoder on SKL+ (A HuC Firmware and
  a HuC supported Linux kernel are required)
• Add support for CSC and scaling with 10bit P010/I010 surface
• Optimize CSC and scaling with 8bit NV12 and I420 surface
• Fix the wrong memory object cache setting on SKL+
• Fix the EU number in media pipeline
• Fix the wrong bit shift in H.264 encoder
• Fix the 48bit graphics address on BSW+
• Fix building on NetBSD

Known issues

• The new AVC encoder doesn't support MVC/SVC encoding
• The new AVC encoder doesn't support ROI encoding
• The new AVC encoder doesn't support multiple slice encoding

We will fix the above issues in the next release.

git tag: 1.8.0
sha1sum: 9982122c8ef36aad01aa09c083974532afa8f8ca intel-vaapi-driver-1.8.0.tar.bz2

Preliminary release for packaging intel-vaapi-driver-1.8.0.pre3

• Bump the preliminary release version to 1.8.0.pre3
• Fix the GPU hang issue in the new VP8 encoder
• Fix the broken B frame in the new AVC encoder
• Support the new AVC encoder on KBL

Preliminary release for packaging intel-vaapi-driver-1.8.0.pre2

• Bump the preliminary release version to 1.8.0.pre2
• Fix building on NetBSD
• Fix the number of the supported ROI
• Change package tarball name to intel-vaapi-driver

Preliminary release for packaging intel_vaapi_driver-1.8.0.pre1

• Improve the quality of the H.264 encoder on SKL and BXT for CQP and CBR mode
• Improve the quality of the VP8 encoder on BSW+ for CQP and CBR mode
• Add support for H.264 VBR mode on SKL and BXT
• Add support for VP8 VBR mode on BSW+
• Add support for low-power H.264 encoder on BXT and KBL
• Add support for CBR / VBR with low-power H.264 encoder on SKL+
• Add support for CSC and scaling with 10bit P010/I010 surface
• Optimize CSC and scaling with 8bit NV12 and I420 surface
• Fix the wrong memory object cache setting on SKL+
• Fix the EU number in media pipeline
• Fix the wrong bit shift in H.264 encoder
• Fix the 48bit graphics address on BSW+

known issues:

1. MVC/SVC encoding was broken on SKL and BXT, we will fix in next release.
2. VP8 encoding causes GPU hang when encoding a VP8 stream with low bitrate for some YUV input files (#59)