Category Archive: Release Notes

MediaCoder 0.8.47 comes with native 10-bit pixel depth support.  3 color space options were added:

• I420 10-bit,
• I422 10-bit
• I444 10-bit

Formerly in MediaCoder, 10bpp video content are down scaled to 8bpp for processing. The native 10-bit pixel depth support is ideal for transcoding 10bpp content to 10bpp output. Currently only x264 and NVENC support 10bpp input. When encoding 10bpp H.264, make sure to choose correct profile on x264 tab.

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MediaCoder 0.8.46 is released, with support for NVENC 7.0 and Intel MSDK 2016. Try some ultrafast H.264 and HEVC encoding with your cutting-edge GPU! Make sure to update your graphic driver to latest.

MediaCoder 0.8.41 is released with NVENC 6.0. Two-pass encoding can be used with NVENC in MediaCoder now. Simply set video encoder to NVENC and rate mode to Two-Pass and you are ready to go. In advanced settings, you can find new option for 3 types of NVENC’s two-pass mode.

What’s New in NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 6.0

NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 6.0 adds following new features.

• Unified SDK for video encoding and decoding
• Windows 10 official support
• Support for H.264 Motion Estimation only mode
• Support for input surfaces in RGB format
• Support for SEI and VUI fields for H.265
• Support for Adaptive Quantization for improved subjective visual quality with H.265 (adaptive quantization for H.264 is already supported)
• GPUs supported for H.265 (HEVC) encoding
  • GeForce GTX 960, GTX 980. GTX Titan X
  • Quadro M4000, M5000, M6000
  • Tesla M4, M6, M60
• Various quality and performance improvements in encoding
• SDK samples no longer require the CUDA toolkit installed in order to build.