Intel® oneAPI Video Processing Library
Accelerated Video Processing with a Unified Programming API
State-of-the-Art Video Processing
The Intel® oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL) provides a single, video-focused API for encoding, decoding, and video processing that works across a wide range of accelerators. The library is perfect for applications spanning broadcasting, streaming, video on demand (VOD), in-cloud gaming, and remote desktop solutions. It supports deployment on CPUs, integrated GPUs, discrete GPUs, and other accelerators.
Deliver Fast, High-Quality Video Transcoding from Camera to Cloud
- AVI
- H.256 (HEVC)
- H.264 (AVC)
- MPEG-2, VP9, and more
- Intel® Deep Link Hyper Encode
- Resize, Scale, Color Conversion
- Deinterlace, Inverse Telecine
Benefits
- Boost media and video application performance with hardware-accelerated codecs and programmable graphics on Intel® processors.
- Speed the transition to higher frame rates and resolutions.
- Improve video quality and innovate cloud graphics and media analytics.
- Reduce infrastructure and development costs.
Note for Intel® Media SDK users:
oneVPL is the successor to Intel Media SDK. oneVPL takes you from abstractions for integrated graphics to unlocking media features on a much broader range of accelerators.
- Provides backwards compatibility with the familiar Intel Media SDK core API
- Includes the same range of video codecs and filters as in Intel Media SDK
For more information, see Upgrade from Intel Media SDK to oneVPL.
Backward compatibility between Intel Media SDK and oneVPL gives you a migration path for existing code using the Common Media API. You can also take advantage of new software and upcoming hardware features in oneVPL, such as extended AV1 encoding, easier device enumeration, and video processing initialization.
Download as Part of the Toolkit
oneVPL is included in the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit, which is a core set of tools and libraries for developing high-performance, data-centric applications across diverse architectures.
Develop in the Free Intel® Cloud
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Help oneVPL Evolve
oneVPL is part of the oneAPI industry standards initiative. We welcome you to participate.
Who Needs oneVPL?
Developers who want to quickly process video files and need fast video encoding and decoding, processing, and media format conversion use this library for:
- Desktop or mobile video players and editors
- Video conferencing or streaming applications
- Smart camera and network video recording software
- Content capture and distribution for digital surveillance, industrial, retail, healthcare, and more
- In-vehicle infotainment and instrument-cluster firmware
Unlock Hardware-Accelerated Video
Intel provides a growing portfolio of hardware options to accelerate your video pipeline. Using oneVPL gives you direct access to high-performance accelerator capabilities with a unified, operating system-independent interface for encoding, decoding, and video processing acceleration across hardware.
Intel® Processors
CPUs offer the most universal option for video processing and computer vision tasks. With multiple product lines to choose from, you can find a range of price and performance options to meet your application and budget needs.
Intel® Graphics
Intel® Iris® Xe MAX is based on the same game-changing media and graphics IP that powers the Intel® Iris® Xe graphics within the 11th generation Intel® Core™ processors. This GPU unlocks additional performance with Intel® Deep Link technology by enabling the usage of integrated and discrete graphics together to accelerate content creation and AI workloads.
oneVPL focuses on video elementary stream operations only. It is one of many options for you to access hardware acceleration for media operations.
How to Choose Video Processing Software for Intel® Hardware
What's New in Version 2023
- oneVPL now includes hardware support for the Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series and 13th generation Intel processors, as well as operating system support for RHEL* 9, CentOS* Stream 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4, and Rocky Linux* 9.
- Distribute work between two GPUs (2x2 mode) or two media engines on one GPU (1x2 mode) using the new parallel encoding feature in sample_multi_transcode
- For a complete list of new features, see the release notes.
Benchmarks
Documentation & Code Samples
Code Samples
Learn how to access oneAPI code samples in a tool command line or IDE.
Specifications
Processors:
- Intel Core processors
- Intel® Xeon® processors
New features are supported on 11th generation processors and beyond.
Graphics Processors:
- Intel® Flex
- Intel® Arc™ A-series graphics
- Intel Iris X ͤ graphics
- Intel Iris X ͤ MAX GPU
Host & target operating systems:
- Linux, Windows® 10
Languages:
- C API
For more information, see the system requirements.
Compilers:
- GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)* version 7.4.0 or newer
- Microsoft* compilers
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Product and Performance Information
Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.