Architecture#
1. Overview#
The Intel® Tiber™ Broadcast Suite is a software-based package designed for creation of high-performance and high-quality solutions used in live video production. The video pipelines are built using Intel-optimized version of FFmpeg and combine: media transport protocols (SMPTE ST 2110-compliant), JPEG XS encoding/decoding, GPU media processing and rendering.
2. Software Architecture#
The Intel® Tiber™ Broadcast Suite uses open-source FFmpeg framework as a baseline, and enhances it with:
Media Transport Library (MTL) with SMPTE 2110 transport protocols and yuv422p10le and y210le pixel formats.
Intel® QSV and OneVPL libraries to support hardware-accelerated media processing with Intel Flex GPU cards.
DPC++ kernels to enable custom effect filters used in video production (not supported in this release).
OpenGL/Vulkan integration to display rendering effects (not supported in this release).
The software package includes several performance features on top of regular Intel’s Cartwheel FFmpeg upstream patches:
memory management optimizations for page-aligned surface allocations
asynchronous execution of video pipeline filters to maximize GPU utilization
high-throughput GPU-CPU memory data transfers
3. Components inside Suite’s docker image#
Component |
Version |
Source |
|---|---|---|
FFmpeg |
7.0.2 |
|
Intel® FFmpeg patches |
7.0 |
|
Media Transport Library |
24.09 |
|
Media Communications Mesh |
24.09 |
|
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) |
23.11 |
|
SVT JPEG XS |
0.9 |
|
SVT AV1 |
1.7.0 |
|
Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives |
2021.10.1.16 |
|
Video Super Resolution |
23.11 |
|
VMAF |
2.3.1 |
|
oneVPL |
23.3.4 |
|
LIBVPL |
2023.3.1 |
|
Intel Media Driver (IHD) |
23.3.5 |
|
GMMLIB |
22.3.12 |
|
Vulkan-Headers |
1.3.280.0 |
|
LIBVA |
2.20.0 |
|
Nvidia CUDA plugin |