Summary of Changes for Intel® Tiber™ Broadcast Suite - 25.04 Release:#

What’s Changed#

  • Transitioned from a single-container architecture based on FFmpeg to an advanced architecture featuring a processing component with a pre-configured FFmpeg pipeline generator and a control component based on NMOS

  • Added NMOS support for IS-04 and IS-05 standards

  • Enabled Kubernetes-managed runtime environment for improved scalability and deployment

  • Introduced a Launcher as a centralized point for user interaction

  • Implemented gRPC-based communication between the Application container and the NMOS container

  • Optimized installation scripts and updated user guides for better usability

  • Updated the supported version of Media Transport Library (MTL) to 25.02.1

  • Updated the supported version of Media Communication Mesh to 25.03

Summary of Changes for Intel® Tiber™ Broadcast Suite - 24.10 Release:#

What’s Changed#

  • Support Nvidia GPU (CUDA filters)

  • Uploaded Intel® Tiber™ Broadcast Suite to the Docker Hub

  • Enabled build of Intel® Tiber™ Broadcast Suite from Debian packages

  • Updated supported FFmpeg version to 7.0

  • Updated documentation

  • Updated build.sh

Summary of Changes for Intel® Tiber™ Broadcast Suite - 24.07 Release:#

What’s Changed#

  • Move the lcore management to mtl-manager

  • Remove unnecessary MTL patch and adjust tag

  • Minor update to build.md

Summary of Changes for Intel® Tiber™ Broadcast Suite - Initial Release:#

New Features:#

  • Comprehensive Integration with FFmpeg: Enhanced version of FFmpeg tailored with Intel’s patches for optimized media handling.

  • Advanced Media Processing: Integration of Intel® QSV and OneVPL for GPU-accelerated processing.

  • SMPTE ST 2110 Compliance: Full support for media transport protocols ensuring high compatibility and performance in professional environments.

  • JPEG XS Support: Includes encoding and decoding capabilities for JPEG XS, optimizing bandwidth and storage.

  • GPU Media Rendering: Utilizes Intel Flex GPU cards for efficient media rendering tasks.

  • Intel® QSV and OneVPL libraries: These libraries support hardware-accelerated media processing with Intel Flex GPU cards, enhancing the performance of the Suite.

  • DPC++ kernels: Although not supported in this release, the Suite is designed to enable custom effect filters used in video production in future releases.

  • OpenGL/Vulcan feature integration.

  • Performance features: The Suite includes several performance features such as memory management optimizations for page-aligned surface allocations, asynchronous execution of video pipeline filters to maximize GPU utilization, and high-throughput GPU-CPU memory data transfers.

  • Mesh Plugin: This plugin allows single or multiple instances of FFmpeg with Mesh Plugin to connect to selected Media Proxy instance, enhancing the efficiency of the Suite.

  • Support for PTP Time synchronization: This feature uses Media Transport Library PTP Time synchronization feature, enhancing the synchronization of the Suite.

  • Support for changing input and output streams Payload ID: This feature adds flexibility to the deployment of the Suite.

Enhancements:#

  • Optimized Memory Management: Improvements in memory allocation that enhance performance and reduce latency.

  • Asynchronous Execution: Video pipeline filters operate asynchronously to maximize GPU utilization.

  • High-Throughput Transfers: Enhanced GPU-CPU memory data transfers for high-performance media streaming.