Enable real-time, hardware-accelerated video encoding, decoding, and processing with the full integration of Intel® Quick Sync Video. Run video and image processing with outstanding performance and high visual quality completely on the GPU while using the CPU for other tasks.

Decode, encode, and transcode video using hardware-accelerated H.265 (HEVC), H.264 (AVC), MPEG-2, VP9, VC-1, MVC, and Motion JPEG (MJPEG).

Flexible Encode Infrastructure (FEI) gives more control over the encoding process. It is only available for AVC encode with limitations.

Support for multiple widely used video preprocessing filters:

• Color conversion
• Deinterlace
• Denoise
• Resize
• Rotate
• Crop
• Composition and alpha blending
• Frame-rate conversion
• Video signal information
• Mirroring (Windows* only)

For the Windows version:

• HEVC codec components. Software- and GPU-accelerated HEVC (H.265).
• Video Quality Caliper analysis tool performs sequence-level inspection of encoded or decoded video streams, and provides objective metrics such as PSNR and SSIM, all through an interactive interface.
• RAW video and image processing. Quickly convert RAW camera output to display-compatible formats. Apply color adjustment and effect filters in real time for visually stunning media.
• Audio decode and encode. Deliver fast, quality audio playback and encode for AAC, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2.

For the Linux* version:

• HEVC codec components. Software and GPU-accelerated HEVC (H.265).
• Metrics Monitor tool provides visibility into the GPU load metrics, utilization statistics for the hardware accelerators (such as VDBox, VEBox), and GPU execution units.