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Product Brief
Ground-Breaking Video
Performance, Density & Quality
Intel® Media Server Studio 2017
A comprehensive software development tool suite for media encode, decode & processing.
Develop Enterprise-Grade, High Performance & Quality Media Solutions & Applications Intel® Media Server Studio helps media software developers deliver fast, high density and quality video transcoding, and innovate new immersive viewing experiences on the latest Intel® Xeon® and Core™ processor-based platforms.^1
- Develop and optimize media solutions and applications to get the best performance and quality.
- Speed transition to 4K and HEVC ; innovate 360 degree video and virtual reality.
- Reduce infrastructure costs with hardware-accelerated video transcoding.
- Cut product time to market. Write applications once and run anywhere, with forward and backward compatibility.
Supports select skus of Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Core™ processors. See Technical Specifications for details.
Supports HEVC, AVC, MPEG- and AAC (audio) formats
Linux* and Windows* versions are available.
Global video traffic is soaring, forecasted at up to 80 percent of all consumer Internet traffic by 2019.^2 This trend creates high demand for the media processing in the network and the cloud. Video solution providers need efficient video transcoding to reduce infrastructure and development costs while improving viewing experiences. And to stay competitive and meet consumer content demands, it’s essential to be ready to transition quickly emerging 4K/ultra-high definition (UHD) and new video experiences such as 360 degree videos and virtual reality. Intel Media Server Studio helps readies the industry for these challenges by providing access to real-time hardware accelerated HEVC and AVC codecs.
Deliver Fast, 4K/UHD Video Transcoding Intel Media Server Studio is a comprehensive software development tool suite for data center, cloud and network media solutions for high-performance transcoding, live and over-the-top (OTT) broadcasting and streaming, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and video conferencing. Media Server Studio simplifies development of media apps by including state-of-the-art components and features for tailoring visual quality versus performance. It supports both Linux* and Windows Server*, provides media and OpenCL SDKs, runtimes, graphics drivers, advanced performance and quality analysis tools, and more. These capabilities allow developers to achieve real-time 4K@60fps HEVC decode and encode , and up to 18 AVC full HD@30fps transcoding sessions on Intel® Xeon® and 6th generation Core™ processor-based platforms.^3
Benefits
- Build High-Density Media Pipelines. Achieve outstanding performance and density by taking advantage of the Intel® Quick Sync Video-enabled hardware-accelerated codecs on Intel® Xeon® E3 and Core® platforms^1 with Intel® Iris™, Intel® Iris™ Pro, and Intel® HD Graphics. Transcode up to 18 HD AVC@30fps streams per socket.
- Stay Competitive & Innovate. Deliver amazing viewing experiences including quickly evolving 360 degree videos and virtual reality with real- time 4K HEVC@60fps encoding.
- Streamline the Development Cycle with support for multiple Intel processor generations. Write applications once and run anywhere. Instead of cobbling together tools and runtimes from different sources, use a consistent set of SDKs, runtimes, and drivers to rapidly develop and optimize media apps and solutions.
- Accelerate Time to Market. Intel Media Server Studio can reduce development time, support, and infrastructure costs—key factors for differentiation in an ever more fragmented and commoditized ecosystem.
- Develop High-Performance Heterogeneous Applications. With the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications, build, debug and analyze your apps. Get full control over media pipelines and exploit the full computational capabilities of Intel Graphics Processors and CPUs.
- Select an HEVC encoder that Best Fits your Scenario. Use Intel’s fast hardware-accelerated HEVC codec for high density web, OTT and video conferencing. Or choose GPU-accelerated or software HEVC if you need broadcast quality. With Intel’s award-wining^4 portfolio of HEVC codecs, benefit from great compression and reduce bandwidth use with a broad range of Intel platforms: Core, Xeon E3 and E5 processors, and Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator add-in cards. Tap into a rich set of HEVC codec features such as ROI priority (QP) map for better functionality, and control for video conferencing, plus low-delay mode.
- Virtualized environment. Use Intel Media Server Studio software implementation on the Intel Xeon processor E5 product family with KVM+Xenon Linux*.
- Optimize application performance and quality with advanced tools: Intel® VTune™ Amplifier provides analysis of Graphics Processor and CPU performance for media and OpenCL apps with rich sorting, filtering and visualization options. Video Quality Caliper is a graphical tool for objective and visual quality inspection of encoded and uncompressed streams.
Figure 1. Intel Media Server Studio, its components, support; and complementary advanced video analyzer tools.
Intel Media Server Studio:
Choose the Edition that Best
Meets Your Needs
Community Edition
Delivers full access to Intel® Quick Sync Video enabled hardware-accelerated codecs (HEVC, AVC and more), and a development environment for heterogeneous apps Includes Intel® Media SDK, Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications, runtimes, graphics drivers Support is via an online forum
Essentials Edition
Community Edition + Intel® Premier Support with direct access to Intel tech experts
Professional Edition
Essentials Edition + Enterprise-quality HEVC, MPEG- 2 and audio codecs Expert-grade performance and quality analyzers (Intel® VTune™ Amplifier, Video Quality Caliper), Premium Telecine Interlace Reverser, and more
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Other Resources
- Intel Xeon E3 15xx v5 Product Brief >
(^1) Specific hardware technical specifications apply, see details. (^2) Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology , 2014-2019 White Paper, 2015, pg 2 (^3) Specific hardware technical specifications apply. See performance benchmarks for details. (^4) 2015 Global Video Encoding & Transcoding Technology Innovation Leadership , Frost & Sullivan, and 2015 HEVC/H.265 Video Codec Comparison Report , and Appendix , Moscow State University. (^5) FEI is an extension of Intel® Media SDK that gives more control over encoding process compared to the standard Media SDK API. This feature is available with limitations: 1) Only AVC encode supported; 2) Intel does not provide technical support for the FEI through the media community forum or Intel Premier Support; 3) Building an application with FEI may take significantly more effort compared to the standard Intel Media SDK API; 4) FEI validation is limited. Some combinations of encoding parameters may lead to unstable application behavior, crashes and hangs; 5) FEI API is not backward compatible; 6) FEI is subject to the same EULA terms as Media Server Studio. Some FEI components are distributed as “pre-release materials” which restricts their usage according to the EULA.
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Advanced Intel Video Analysis Tools Along with Intel Media Server Studio Editions, two companion tools give codec developers and validation engineers even more power and control for analyzing their media solutions.
Intel® Video Pro Analyzer Advanced video analysis software tools for HEVC, VP9, AVC, and MPEG-2 video coding standards allow deep visual inspection of the complete decoding and encoding process, extract statistics, debug, and more. Learn more here.
Intel® Stress Bitstreams & Encoder Validate and debug HEVC, VP9, and AVS 2.0 decoders, transcoders, players, and streaming solutions. Bitstreams have highly redundant syntax coverage in a small foot- print, which speeds the validation process and reduces time to market. Create custom streams for testing. Learn more here.
