CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Intel® Video Processing Library (Intel® VPL) tools provide access to hardware accelerated video decode, encode, and frame processing capabilities on Intel® GPUs from the command line.

1.5.0 - 2025-12-08

Added

• New environment variables to override default sync operation timeout in sample_decode and sample_vpp
• New command-line option in vpl-import-export example to select codec for encode (-e) and screen capture (-c) modes
• New command-line option in vpl-import-export example to set maximum number of captured frames
• New strings in vpl-inspect tool to improve readability of output
• New logging in sample_vpp when FRC or SR filters are enabled

Changed

• Default codec in vpl-import-example for encode and screen capture modes to H.264 (previously H.265)
• Minimum alignment for screen capture in vpl-import-example to 8 pixels (previously 16)
• Removed bit shift for Y210 output in sample_decode file writer, to align behavior with sample_vpp and sample_multi_transcode

Fixed

• Compile error with gcc-15

1.4.0 - 2024-04-11

Added

• Intel® Media Transcode Accelerator as a supported device
• New strings in vpl-inspect tool to improve readability of output
• Option -props to vpl-inspect tool to enable property-based capabilities query

Changed

• Default Ubuntu build to 24.04

1.3.0 - 2024-12-13

Added

• Screen content coding tools for AV1 to sample_encode

• GTK renderer option to sample_decode and sample_multi_transcode

• -fullscreen option to sample_decode and sample_multi_transcode when using GTK. Use Ctrl+f to enter fullscreen and Esc to exit fullscreen

• Improved support for Python 3.12 development environments.

Fixed

• Bootstrap to support Debian distributions that do not define ID_LIKE

1.2.0 - 2024-08-30

Added

• VVC decode support to sample_decode
• Embedded version information to all shared libraries

Changed

• Metrics monitor library to now build statically by default

1.1.0 - 2024-06-28

Added

• MFX_SURFACE_TYPE_VULKAN_IMG2D to vpl-inspect
• YUV400 JPEG Enc for Linux VAAPI

Fixed

• va-attrib for vaapiallocator
• D3D11 texture not being released in val-surface-sharing test tool

1.0.0 - 2024-04-26

Added

• Intel® VPL API 2.11 support
• Command line tools. They have been moved from the libvpl repository (https://github.com/intel/libvpl)