Hardware AV1 video encoders are coming

There is something interesting finally happening with video encoding and also Media Foundation:

Intel® Hybrid AV1 Encoder MFT

11 Attributes:

  • MFT_TRANSFORM_CLSID_Attribute: {62C053CE-5357-4794-8C5A-FBEFFEFFB82D} (Type VT_CLSID)
  • MF_TRANSFORM_FLAGS_Attribute: MFT_ENUM_FLAG_HARDWARE
  • MFT_ENUM_HARDWARE_VENDOR_ID_Attribute: VEN_8086 (Type VT_LPWSTR)
  • MFT_ENUM_HARDWARE_URL_Attribute: AA243E5D-2F73-48c7-97F7-F6FA17651651 (Type VT_LPWSTR)
  • MFT_INPUT_TYPES_Attributes: {3231564E-3961-42AE-BA67-FF47CCC13EED}, MFVideoFormat_NV12
  • MFT_OUTPUT_TYPES_Attributes: MFVideoFormat_AV1
  • MFT_CODEC_MERIT_Attribute: 7 (Type VT_UI4)
  • MFT_SUPPORT_DYNAMIC_FORMAT_CHANGE: 1 (Type VT_UI4)
  • MF_TRANSFORM_ASYNC: 1 (Type VT_UI4)

Intel UHD graphics coming with 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400 @ 2.60GHz is noiced to be equipped with new stuff. AMD and NVIDIA are probably also on the way.

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