Intel Media Server Studio

Cloud,commsandvideoserviceprovidersandmediaapplicationdeveloperscandeliverfast,high-densityandhighqualityvideotranscoding,streaming andconferencingwithIntel Studio. Thisawardwinningsuiteoftoolsgivesyouthepowerto:

• AccesshardwareacceleratedcodecsandprogrammablegraphicsonIntelplatforms, includingIntelXeonE31500v5and6thgenerationIntelCore
  
• Speedthetransitiontorealtime4KHEVC
  
• Innovatenewimmersiveexperiences,suchas360degreevideosandvirtualreality
  
• Savesignificantinfrastructureanddevelopmentcosts.processors

IntelMediaServerStudioisavailableintwoeditionsEssentialsandProfessionaltosuityour applicationdevelopmentandanalysisneeds.Botheditions(availableforWindowsorLinux) includeIntel PEG2. MediaServerPremierSupportfordirectaccesstoInteltechnicalexperts.SupportsHEVC,AVCand MPEG2.

Intel Media Server Studio - Features

Key Features:

• Cross Platform Support with Linux and Windows under a single Intel Media SDK. (Available in Essentials and Professional Editions)
  
• H264 (AVC) Media Codec, Intel Media SDK and APIs provide access to media acceleration features such as hardware-accelerated video codecs, video processing filters, programmable graphics and graphics drivers (using both Intel CPU/GPU) to maximise performance and server resources.(Available in Essentials and Professional Editions)
• Essential tools and runtimes (Available in Essentials and Professional Editions)
  
• Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications (Linux | Windows) - assists with creating, building, debugging and analysing OpenCL applications for the underlying architecture, providing in-depth analysis with visualisation and interactive mode, which is extremely useful for optimisation. (Available in Essentials and Professional Editions)
• Metrics Monitor tool (Linux only): provides visibility into the GPU load metrics, utilisation stats for the hardware accelerators (i.e VDBOX, VEBOX) and GPU execution units (Available in Essentials and Professional Editions)
  
• Support provided is through (Available in Essentials and Professional Editions)
  
• Code samples are provided on the Code Samples Support page (Available in Essentials and Professional Editions)
• Intel Premier Support, providing direct access to Intel technical experts plus Intel Media forums. (Available in Essentials and Professional Editions)
  
• Industry standard and future media codecs: HEVC (H.265), Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) and MPEG-2. The tool provides HEVC software decoder and encoder, HEVC GPU accelerated encoder and GPU assist APIs for accelerating your own HEVC encoder on Intel HD Graphics (Available in Professional Edition only)
• Intel VTune Amplifieris a performance profiler, ideal for tuning media applications. Gather the rich set of CPU, GPU, threading, OpenCL and bandwidth metrics needed to find media processing bottlenecks. Intel VTune Amplifier provides tools to quickly analyse and interpret data. Sort and filter the results and then display it for easy analysis on the timeline, the code source and on a GPU architecture diagram that shows VDBox, VEBox, EU utilisation and bus bandwidth. Get faster code faster with extensive performance metrics and powerful analysis tools. (Available in Professional Edition only)
• Premium Telecine Interlace Reverser (PTIR), a state-of-the-art converter, converts telecined and/or interlaced video to progressive format by removing redundancy and artifacts. It automatically performs needed processing, such as on telecined content it detects and reverses telecine patterns and on interlaced content it performs high quality deinterlacing, resulting in video of progressive format, which can be efficiently compressed. PTIR is implemented as a plugin in the Pro Edition. (Available in Professional Edition only)
• Video Quality Caliperprovides efficient sequence-level inspection of the quality of encoded or decoded video streams. The tool provides objective metrics such as PSNR and SSIM, in addition to the ability for subjective inspection by allowing an interactive graphical interface. (Available in Professional Edition only)
  
  

Intel Media Server Studio - System Requirements

Hardware Requirements 2017 edition

Intel Media Server Studio supports the following platforms with integrated graphics:

• Intel Xeon E3-1200 v4 Family with C226 chipset
• Intel Xeon E3-1200 and E3-1500 v5 Family with C236 chipset
• 5th Generation Intel Core processors
• 6th Generation Intel Core processors

Additionally, for Intel Xeon E5 v4 and v5 processors, support of software-only (CPU) HEVC decode and encode, select video pre-processing (CSC, scaling, DI) and virtualisation (KVM, Xen) is available.

Current Customers Note: If you are using older generations of Intel platforms than listed above (i.e. codenamed Haswell), use the Media Server Studio 2016 edition (see release notes for technical specifications).

Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 & 2012 R2
• 64-bit Windows 8 (development only)
• Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010 with Service Pack 1 (Installer)
• CentOS 7.2
• Other Linux distributions through Generic OS model (Media Server Studio generally works on these OSs, however support is not provided for Linux distributions other than Gold OS)