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What's new in Video Codec SDK 9.1:
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In NVIDIA Video Codec SDK release 9.1, following features have been added:
Encode Features:
1. NVENCODE API for retrieving the last encountered error
2. Support for CUStream
3. Filler NALU insertion
4. Fixes for H.264 MVC
5. Multiple reference frames
Decode Features:
1. Enhancements to decode capability API
2. Memory optimization in sample applications
What's new in Video Codec SDK 9.0:
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In NVIDIA Video Codec SDK release 9.0, following features were added:
Encode Features:
1. Improved encoded quality for Turing GPUs
2. HEVC B-frame support (Turing GPUs only)
3. Encoded output in video memory
4. H.264 ME only mode output in video memory.
5. Non-reference P frames
6. Support for accepting CUArray as input
Decode Features:
1. HEVC YUV 444 decoding (Turing GPUs only)
2. Multiple NVDEC engines(Turing GPUs only)
Please refer to .\doc\NVENC_Application_Note.pdf and
.\doc\NVDEC_Application_Note.pdf to get more details about the available
encoding and decoding functionalities in the SDK.
For system, software and build environment requirements, please refer to the
file ReadMe.txt included in the SDK package.
Package Contents
----------------
This package contains the following:
1) Sample applications demonstrating various encoding/decoding/transcoding
capabilities
- [.\Samples\]
2) NVIDIA video encoder API header
- [.\include\nvEncodeAPI.h]
3) NVIDIA video encoder application note
- [.\doc\NVENC_Application_Note.pdf]
4) NVIDIA video encoder programming guide
- [.\doc\NVENC_VideoEncoder_API_ProgGuide.pdf]
5) NVIDIA video decoder API headers
- [.\include\cuviddec.h]
- [.\include\nvcuvid.h]
6) NVIDIA video decoder application note
- [.\doc\NVDEC_Application_Note.pdf]
7) NVIDIA video decoder programming guide
- [.\doc\NVDEC_VideoDecoder_API_ProgGuide.pdf]
8) Application note on how to use NVIDIA video acceleration in FFmpeg
- [.\doc\Using FFmpeg with NVIDIA GPU Hardware Acceleration.pdf]
9) NVIDIA video decoder and encoder stub libraries
- [.\Lib\linux\stubs\x86_64\libnvcuvid.so]
- [.\Lib\linux\stubs\x86_64\libnvidia-encode.so]
- [.\Lib\linux\stubs\ppc64le\libnvcuvid.so]
- [.\Lib\linux\stubs\ppc64le\libnvidia-encode.so]
- [.\Lib\Win32\nvcuvid.lib]
- [.\Lib\x64\nvcuvid.lib]
The sample applications provided in the package are for demonstration purposes
only and may not be fully tuned for quality and performance. Hence the users
are advised to do their independent evaluation for quality and/or performance.