Optimize your video application to help deliver fast encode and decode for today and tomorrow’s technology using the Intel® Media Software Development Kit. Help improve performance and reduce development time for video, visual and rich media applications. Download and use the free Intel® Media Software Development Kit (Intel® Media SDK) at the start of your project. After development, use the free Intel® Media Checker to evaluate your optimizations.

Help your media applications take full advantage of the latest Intel technologies while offering your customers a better overall experience.

Media developers face challenges every day to process high-performance video effectively and efficiently. The Intel Visual Computing Developer Community for Media is a place for media software developers to gather, find and share ideas and connect with the latest information direct from the source. Plus, get access to a host of other resources such as FAQs, product briefs, solution briefs, beta tools and more.

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In developing this extremely lightweight media player for Windows, the development team aligned their efforts with the Intel® Software Partner Program—taking advantage of media application development support to deliver a superior user experience. Media Player Classic Home Cinema allows users to enhance, decode, and accelerate diverse movie formats thanks to GPU-assisted acceleration and image quality enhancing. By making responsible use of system resources compared to other video media players, the WMP Classic Home Cinema player runs smoothly on a broad range of platforms.