topic Hi Stephan, you may try in Media (Intel® Video Processing Library, Intel Media SDK)

HEVC Decoder Multicore Performance

SDeut — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:29:16 GMT

I'm running Intel® Media Server Studio 2015 R4 and use the HEVC decoder plugin.

As far as I understood, it will work CPU only. So I'd expect near 100% CPU usage, but I see only 50% and running two cores only.

I already tried to adjust mfxVideoParam.AsyncDepth and mfxInfoMFX.NumThread, but this does not make a difference.

Am I missing anything?

Hi Stephan, you may try

Alexey_F_Intel — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:01:08 GMT

Hi Stephan, you may try sample_decoder to check how to improve multi-threading with AsyncDepth. Essentially AsyncDepth is a threading control for decoders, NumThreads is a depricated field and should not have any impact. With simple_decoder you can variate -async option up to 20 to see how it impact CPU load.

Alexey

Since I'm in a video editing

SDeut — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:11:15 GMT

Since I'm in a video editing environment, I need often a single, independent decoded frame (e.g. for thumbnails or backward key frame stepping).

So it would be not possible, to have multi-threading inside a single frame?

Hi Stephan,

Surbhi_M_Intel — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:47:53 GMT

Hi Stephan,

If you are using windows OS, there are two implementation present for HEVC decoder, one is pure SW solution and another one is GPU accelerated HEVC decoder. Can you please confirm the OS and the Cmd line you are using to run HEVC decoder using the sample_decode.

Thanks,
Surbhi

Hi Surbhi,

SDeut — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:10:37 GMT

Hi Surbhi,

I'm on Windows OS and run Intel Media Studio Professional R4, I see four plugins here:

15dd936825ad475ea34e35f3f54217a6 hevcd_sw
2fca99749fdb49aeb121a5b63ef568f7 hevce_sw
87e0e80207375240852515cf4a5edde6 h265fei_hw
e5400a06c74d41f5b12d430bbaa23d0b hevce_hw

so it seems to have one SW decoder only. For samples I'm using <Intel Media Samples 6.0.0.68>

Hi Stephan,

Shaojuan_Z_Intel — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:31:36 GMT

Hi Stephan,

GPU accelerated HEVC decoder plugin ID is 33a61c0b4c27454ca8d85dde757c6f8e. You can find all the plugin GUIDs in mfxplugin.h under MSSInstallationDirectory/Software Development Kit/include/. Thanks!

Hi Stephan,

Surbhi_M_Intel — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 19:21:50 GMT

Hi Stephan,

I hope you were able to get to the issue. just to clear it again, we have two implementation present on windows OS- SW implementation, uses only CPU and GPU Accelerated implementation implemented through drivers, which uses both CPU and GPU. More details in the readme of the latest samples package.
Can you let us the cmd line you are using and can you check the GPU activity on your system as well. Please let us know you system details as well.

Thanks,
Surbhi