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Eric is a senior software engineer in the Software and Services Group at Intel. He has been with Intel for 12 years, and spent most of the time working with graphics. Eric has a BS in Computer Science from California State University, Chico. He is a husband, dad, gamer, fly fisher, racquetball player, who is currently building his own house in scenic Newcastle, CA. |
Media SDK 3.0 Beta
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on May 6, 2011 at 12:24 pm
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Hey Media Developers! In case you may have missed it, I wanted to let you know that the Intel Media SDK 3.0 beta is available for download here. Version 3.0 of the Media SDK is designed to take advantage of Intel's next generation platforms, and this beta is providing an early opportunity to prototype your [...]
Category: Graphics & Media, Uncategorized
Tags: Intel(R) Media SDK, Visual Computing
Intel Media SDK 2.0 Dispatching Explained
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on December 7, 2010 at 2:23 pm
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Hey Folks! The Intel® Media SDK 2.0 GOLD version is now available for download! If you are a media developer, this is huge. Accelerated decoding and encoding, ability to join together transcoding pipelines, and even extend the framework with your own modules are just some of the new features. Before I dive in and start [...]
Category: Graphics & Media
Tags: Intel Media SDK
Media SDK, MPC, and AVC
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on May 18, 2010 at 10:12 am
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Hello All, Last time I spoke about how to use the Intel Media SDK to construct a simple Microsoft * DirectShow transcode pipeline using the sample filters and the Windows SDK tool Graph Edit . I'd again like to keep focused on the sample filters by discussing an issue that came up recently. I am [...]
Category: Graphics & Media
Tags: Intel Media SDK, Media Development
Using the Media SDK - Simple DirectShow Trancoding
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on March 8, 2010 at 2:33 pm
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Calling all developers working with media technologies! If you haven’t already, download and learn Intel’s Media SDK 1.5. Its easier then DXVA code and using it ensures you are forward compatible with future Intel hardware. Check it out.. Download it here. Need a quick way to transcode a clip? Use the Media SDK’s DirectShow filters [...]
Category: Graphics & Media, Uncategorized
MediaSDK
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on August 14, 2009 at 10:08 am
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Hi All, Its been a while since I had the opportunity to sit down and get a message out to everyone. Its been a heck of a summer. On the personal side, I've been building a house for the last 8 months and its finally done enough to move in. I have a new appreciation [...]
Category: Graphics & Media
Tags: graphics, H.264, Media, mediasdk, vc1
Level Up Past Winners
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on June 25, 2009 at 8:35 am
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In the coming weeks leading up to Austin GDC where we will announce the winners of Level Up 2009, I’ll be sharing the outcome of recent conversations with some of last year’s winners including information about their winning game demo, what they have been up to since winning the competition, what they learned while developing [...]
Category: Graphics & Media
Tags: Level Up 2009
Countdown to July
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on June 2, 2009 at 7:58 am
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Hey Its June 2nd! There's less then one month left to get your demo submitted for the Level Up 2009 Game demo challenge. Get it submitted! There was two HUGE announcements last week in case you missed it. First, Intel is awarding a $100.00 Visa or American Express cash gift cards for the entry with [...]
Category: Events, Graphics & Media
Tags: game developer, Level Up 2009
Guest Post: Trent Polack from Stardock
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on May 27, 2009 at 1:13 pm
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Hello All! Today's post comes from Trent Polack, an game developer extraordinaire (and indie game developer) at Stardock. See his blog here: http://www.polycat.net/ Enjoy! Bite-sized pieces: My life as a game developer Being an independent game developer is kind of a strange existence in the game industry. It's a nebulous identity that, by itself, indicates [...]
Category: Events, Graphics & Media
Tags: Game Development, Level Up 2009
Level Up 2009 - Use those tools!
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on May 11, 2009 at 11:49 am
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Hello all. Its spring here in Northern California and the weather is already getting hot outside. Did you know there was only 50 days left to get your Level Up 2009 entry submitted?! That's right, entries close on July 1st! Enter today! For those who have already submitted an entry, you should have received [...]
Category: Game Development, Graphics & Media
Tags: Level Up 2009
Level Up 2009 - Game Development Resources
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on April 23, 2009 at 7:18 am
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Hello All!. Well its been about a month since we launched the Level Up 2009 Game Demo Challenge, and I must say that things are off to a good start. We have had quite a few entries across all the categories, and also some really good plugs from some external websites. This is a great [...]
Category: Graphics & Media
Tags: Game Demo Contest, Level Up 2009
GDC Day 3
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on March 25, 2009 at 9:59 pm
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Its day three of GDC so I wanted to step back and try to write down my impressions thus far. This is my first GDC, but about the 20th conference that I've attended since I started Intel. First and foremost, I think we are hosting a great contest with the Level Up 2009 Game Demo [...]
Category: Events, Game Development, Graphics & Media
Tags: Level Up 2009
Got Game?
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on March 22, 2009 at 6:59 am
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My brother is Biology professor who gets to travel all over the place and do interesting things. Unfortunately, We only get to see each other just a few times a year but when we do a little ritual happens. We send the wife/kids out, get some refreshments, then fire up Mortal Kombat on the Xbox [...]
Category: Graphics & Media
Tags: contest, game demo, Game Demo Contest, Game Development, GDC, level up, Level Up 2009
Intel Clear Video™ and H.264/AVC
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on March 15, 2009 at 8:19 am
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As I mentioned in my last blog post, I've been working on getting H.264/AVC acceleration enabled. This project was started by a post by one of the community members: http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/developing-software-for-visual-computing/topic/60703/page/1/ Over the last month, "casimier666" and I have been adding the acceleration code to Media Player Classic - Home Cinema. Its been quite [...]
Category: Graphics & Media
Tags: AVC, DXVA, G45, H.264
Diving In
By Eric Sardella (Intel) (14 posts) on February 25, 2009 at 10:58 am
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Here we go! First time blogger here. I am an applications engineer in the Software and Services group, and seem to have my hands in everything these days, and am loving it. I've been at Intel now for about 12 years, spending most of the time in the graphics and media area, but recently [...]