QuickSync Decoder: Release Notes

1.2.0.0 - Jun 29, 2024

• Decoding of raw (MPEG-2 TS) and MPEG-4 (with length prefix) streams has been upgraded.
• Fixed implementation of preroll samples.
• Upgraded to IPP 2021.10 from oneAPI Toolkit 2024.0

1.1.5.0 - Sep 16, 2023

• Fixed an error in parsing some MPEG-2 TS files.
• Added interface method to send EOS from decoder with stop decoding.
• The project has been updated in accordance with cumulative changes in the base libraries.

1.1.4.0 - Sep 17, 2019

• Fixed parsing of the input H264 media type.
• If the hardware decoder cannot decode the stream, a software decoder is automatically created (if any decoder can be used).

1.1.3.0 - Sep 06, 2019

• Added forced selection of output subtype and format from registry settings.
• Corrected parsing of headers from connection mediatype for H264 stream from MPEG-2 TS.
• Corrected internal objects for gluing frames and handling EOS.
• Upgraded to IPP 2019.2.
• MPEG-2 decoding is temporarily disabled.

1.1.0.0 - Jan 23, 2019

• Internal objects for gluing frames rewritten, big changes are made to the decoder wrapper.
• Upgraded to IPP 2019.1.
• The compilation options for VS2015 are selected to install the filter also in Windows XP (v140_xp).

1.0.7.1 - May 04, 2018

• Added debug info.

1.0.7.0 - Apr 03, 2018

• Upgraded to Intel Media_SDK_2017.0.1 (MFX version 1.23).
• Corrected color conversions for interlaced frames.
• Changed compilation settings for use program also on Windows XP ('v100' is selected).

1.0.6.0 - Aug 31, 2017

• Added code for receive H264 stream with separate NAL Units in DirectShow samples (from network source).
• Fixed problem with loss of media type attached to the first output sample in the call sequence: first call of Pause(), SetPosition().
• Added a special code for checking output media types for VIDEOINFOHEADER::AvgTimePerFrame = 0.

1.0.5.0 - May 30, 2017

• Fixed code of output pin class for work with GMFBridge.
• Corrected functions for color conversions.
• The project was recompiled with VS2015, fixed compilation errors and warnings.
• The protection settings were changed to reduce false positive notifications from antiviruses.

1.0.4.0 - Jan 20, 2017

• Corrected list of output media types and color conversions.
• Upgraded to IPP 8.2.3.280.

1.0.3.3 - Jul 23, 2016

• Upgraded to the newest Intel Media SDK 2016-R2 (v. 1.19).
• Extended debug info.

1.0.3.2 - Jun 27, 2016

• Fixed problem with EOS for streams with end_of_seq_rbsp() on end of stream.

1.0.3.1 - Jun 10, 2016

• Added interface IAVVersion for obtain filter's type (Debug/Release), version, compilation date/time, etc.

1.0.3.0 - Jun 08, 2016

• Corrected EOS handling for H264 decoding.

1.0.2.9 - Jun 08, 2016

• Fixed license subsystem for multithreaded environment.

1.0.2.8 - Jun 07, 2016

• Extended "license expired" message.

1.0.2.7 - Jun 03, 2016

• Corrected license subsystem.

1.0.2.6 - May 30, 2016

• Name of filter changed to "QS Decoder" (former name was "H264 QS Decoder").
• Added C# sample.
• Corrected C++ sample.
• Added code signing certificate.

1.0.2.5 - May 24, 2016

• Added code for connection with H264 media types without headers (Intel Media SDK H.264 Encoder, H264 in AVI files, etc.).
• Disabled usage of the invalid old versions libmfxhwXX.dll (<= 1.4).

1.0.2.4 - May 20, 2016

• libmfx.lib removed from project (layer between decoder filter and libmfxswXX.dll/libmfxhwXX.dll).

1.0.2.3 - May 17, 2016

• Extended debug info, corrected asserts.

1.0.2.2 - Apr 26, 2016

• Fixed bug with critical sections for get and flush output frames.
• Fixed check for mfxFrameInfo::BitDepthLuma and BitDepthChroma (values depend from version of Intel library).
• Fixed main method for decoding.
• Upgraded methods for logging/debugging.
• Removed invalid asserts.

1.0.2.0 - Apr 25, 2016

• MPEG-2 decoding added.
• Large changes in the structure of the filter and internal objects.

1.0.1.0 - Mar 16, 2016

• First public beta release.

1.0.0.1 - Mar 14, 2016

• First release.