Tag: Video

A few interesting observations about NVIDIA Turing video encoders

GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Microarchitecture Pascal Turing H.264 NV_ENC_CAPS_SUPPORT_FIELD_ENCODING Yes No H.264 NV_ENC_PRESET_HP_GUID entropyCodingMode NV_ENC_H264_ENTROPY_CODING_MODE_CAVLC NV_ENC_H264_ENTROPY_CODING_MODE_CABAC H.265/HEVC NV_ENC_CAPS_NUM_MAX_BFRAMES 0 5 H.265/HEVC NV_ENC_CAPS_SUPPORT_TEMPORAL_AQ No Yes Apart from the capabilities, a whitepaper mentions these H.265/HEVC improvements: Turing GPUs also ship with an enhanced NVENC encoder unit that adds support for…

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Media Foundation incorrectly reports resolution for H.265/HEVC video tracks

Another problem (bug) with Microsoft Media Foundation MPEG-4 Media Source H.265/HEVC handler is that it ignores conformance_window_flagflag and values from H.265’s seq_parameter_set_rbsp (see H.265 spec, F.7.3.2.2.1 General sequence parameter set RBSP syntax). The problem might or might not be limited to fragmented MP4 variants. It is overall questionable whether it has been a good idea…

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State of video remoting

Some things are working decently well… A monitor of one system is remoted to another system where the latter is… Xbox One X. Perceivable latency with 1920×1080@60 monitor resolution is under 2 video frames even though there are so many things happening in between.

Infrared Camera in Media Foundation

The screenshot above shows Surface Pro tablet’s infrared camera (known as “Microsoft IR Camera Front” on the device) captured live, encoded and streamed (everything is hosted by Microsoft Media Foundation Media Session by this point) over network using WebSockets into Chrome’s HTML5 video tag by means of Media Source Extensions (MSE). Why? Because why not.…

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