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Video Transcode Solutions: Simple, Fast, Efficient

Optimizing with Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator & Intel® Media Server StudioDell OEM Solutions shares Integration Insights

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Today’s Speakers

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Shantanu GuptaIntel Media Accelerator Products Director

Shantanu has held leadership roles in technology/solutions marketing, integration, product design/development & more for 27 years at Intel.

Yogev ShimonyServer & Software Senior Marketing Manager, Dell OEM Solutions

Yogev has 12+ years of technology experience, and has been with Dell for 7 years in various business development & marketing roles.

Mark J. BuxtonIntel Media Development Products Director

Mark has 20+ years experience leading video standards development & Intel’s media development product efforts, including Intel® Media Server Studioproducts.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yogev

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/09/08/a-fresh-direction-for-future-video-formats?

https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-media-server-studio


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Industry Trends – Video Growth & 4K

Ecosystem Media Workloads & Usages

Hardware Solution – Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator

Insight from Dell – Integrating Intel media acceleration technologies

Complete Solution for Video Transcoding with Intel® Media Server Studio

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Welcome! - What We’ll Cover Today


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“Over 5.4 million videos uploaded directly to Facebook in October 2015” 2

– Reelseo.com

“300 hours of Video uploaded to YouTube every minute”1 – Reelseo.com

“Facebook is now generating 8 billion video views per day from just 500 million people” 3 – Businessinsider.com

Online Video Traffic Growth

1reelseo.com/youtube-300-hours2reelseo.com/top-facebook-video-creators/#ixzz3qwOUMkiB3businessinsider.com/facebook-is-now-generating-8-billion-video-views-per-day-2015-11

Video traffic will be 80% of all consumer Internet traffic in 2019

Cisco Visual Networking Index

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http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/index.html


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4K Drives Industry Transition: Challenge & Opportunity

HIGHER FRAME RATE

HIGHER RESOLUTION – 4X NUMBER OF PIXELS

Video size & quality growing

Requires increased processing, storage, network bandwidth

Growing number of consumer devices transcoding to varying bit rates (smart phones, tablets, 4K TVs etc. )

8K is also coming

MORE PIXELS

MORE PIXELS

4069 H x 2160 V8,847, 360 pixels

2048 H x 1080 V2,211,840 pixels

1920 H x 1080 V2,073,600 pixels

720 H x 489 V345,600 pixels

MORE COLORS

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Media Workloads & Use Cases

Media TranscodeIngest, Transcode / Trans-size/Rate

Visual UnderstandingObject Recognition, Tracking,

Search, Smart Cities

Graphics in the CloudVirtual Hosted Workstation,

Desktop Cloud Gaming

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Offline File Based

Over The Top (OTT) Video Next Day TV, Upload User Content,

Transcode into various Formats, Store, Serve

Real, Live, Linear Just In Time

Moving PVR into the Network

Store once, Transcode as needed,maintain Quality of Experience


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Brings Media Processing to existing Intel® Xeon® E5 infrastructure Combines E3 graphics capabilities with E5 compute power

Outstanding TCO (Price/Performance/Power) per Channel Delivers real-time 4K HEVC transcoding Low storage & network cost

Flexible Software Architecture Access to integrated CPU & GPU for excellent quality/ performance

Hardware/Technical Specifications

Virtual Ethernet provides connectivity between 3x Intel® Xeon® E3 processors with Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics

12x 2.9GHz Broadwell Cores with AVX2.0

Up to 96GB of DDR3 memory

Full length, full height, double-width Gen3 PCIe x16 Card

Cent OS* 7.1 on host & VCA; Xen & KVM supported

Virtual Ethernet provides connectivity between card & host

Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator (Intel® VCA)For Emerging 4K / H.265 UHD Transcode / Video Delivery Market

H.264 Transcode 1080p 30fps *54x RT

H.265 Transcode 1080p 30fps *6x RT

H.265 Transcode 4K 30fps *1x RT

*Projected Performance

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http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/media-and-graphics/visual-compute-accelerator.html


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Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Ecosystem

ISVs OEMs/Solutions

More Coming Soon…

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Industry Solutions Readiness


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Performance Availability & Systems Management Expandability, I/O, & Storage

• 1U rack-mount chassis

• Up to four 300W double-width PCIe x16 accelerators per server

• Supports Intel® VCA and Intel Xeon Phi co-processors

• 16x DIMM sockets for up to 256GB of DDR4 memory

• Dell iDRAC8 automation for enterprise systems management

• Maximize operational uptime with fault-tolerant cooling and optional redundant 1600W power supply units

• 2 x 1Gb Ethernet connectivity

• 2 PCIe slots (low profile) in rear

• Up to 2x 1.8” SATA SSD boot drives

• Optional 4x 2.5” SAS/SATA drives

• Optional 12Gb/s SAS and 6Gb/s SATA

Dell PowerEdge* C4130: Accelerator-optimized Server

Follow @DellOEM on Twitter & join our LinkedIn Dell OEM Solutions

VCA Ready: Close collaboration between Dell OEM Solutions & Intel VCA teams to ensure optimized fit & thermal operation

OverviewIndustry-leading PCIe density in a balanced and flexible 1U server purpose-built for most demanding Media & HPC workloads

BenefitsMaximize performance density with up to 4 Intel® VCAs, 2 Intel® Xeon® E5-2600v3 CPUs, per 1U server

Runs at significantly lower temperatures through Dell thermal solutions and controls

Visit Dell.com/OEM or contact your Intel rep for more details

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/6654266?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical:showcase,clickedEntityId:6654266,idx:3-1-3,tarId:1448837038885,tas:dell oem

http://www.dell.com/OEM


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Availability & More Resources

Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator

Currently taking orders - availability ~mid-December

Product Code: VCA1283LVV, product specifications

Blog: Intel® VCA Makes Its Debut, Podcast

intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/media-and-graphics/visual-compute-accelerator.html

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http://ark.intel.com/products/87380/Intel-Visual-Compute-Accelerator

https://communities.intel.com/community/itpeernetwork/datastack/blog/2015/09/10/new-intel-visual-compute-accelerator-makes-its-debut

https://soundcloud.com/intelchipchat/visual-compute-accelerator




Intel® Media server studio 3 editions

Intel® Video Pro analyzerIntel® Stress Bitstreams

& Encoder

Deliver fast, high-density media transcoding Transition to next-gen formats Cut infrastructure & development costs

Intel® Media Server Studio Product Family


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A Complete Solution with Intel® Media Server Studio

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Video Encoding and Decoding

• H.264 (AVC)

• MPEG-2

• MJPEG

Community EDITION (Free)

PROFESSIONAL EDITION

Intel® OpenCL™ Code Builder Runtime Optimizer

Metrics Monitor for Linux

Monitor resource load

HEVC Software & GPU-Accelerated Encode & Decode

Intel® VTune™ AmplifierPremium Telecine

& Interlace Reverser

Video Quality Caliper

Video Processing

• Resize, Composite & Crop

• Advanced Deinterlace

• Color Conversion

• Denoise & Sharpen

Essentials EditionIntel® Premier Technical Support


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Designed for OTT: Optimized for Streaming

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Benchmarking Data: Measured by Intel on Intel® Media Server Studio 2015 R6 running in balanced quality mode (TU=4), Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1285V4 at 3.0 GHz with Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics P6300 at 1.1 GHz, CentOS 7.1, 16 GB DDR-1600. Input content is MPEG-2 @ 20mbps. Output content is AVC 1080p30@2mbps or 720p60@1mbps.

4K AVC Encode

SD AVC Encode

GPU Accel HEVC ENCODE

Mezzanine 4K HW AVC

DECODE

Advanced HW

Deinterlace

Advanced HW

Resizing

Advanced HW

Resizing

Advanced HW

Resizing

OpenCL™ Analytics

Streaming customers often need to encode several

resolutions & rates in parallel to reduce storage costs

Improve transcode density by sharing decode, deinterlace & other pipeline elements.


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Complete Suite of Runtimes & Tools to Optimize Linear Broadcast

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Run using Media SDK & OpenCL. Monitor with Metrics Monitor. Review, analyze & optimize using Intel® Video Pro Analyzer & Video Quality Caliper.

Mezzanine HW AVC DECODE

HW Denoise

Broadcast MPEG-2/AVC

ENCODE

OpenCL™Analytics

HW Logo Overlay

Advanced HW Resizing

Rate & Quality Controls

System Load Monitoring

Dozens of video

quality knobs for AVC & MPEG-2


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Designed for Remote Desktop: Optimized Screen Capture

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Utilization Benefits from Intel Direct FB Access

120 fps–Direct Framebuffer API vs. 20 fps–Standard DXGI Duplication API

Dirty region analysis provides up to 4 separate skip controls to optimize encoding power & resource use.

Benchmarking data: Measured by Intel on Intel® Media Server Studio 2015R6 running in balanced quality mode (TU=4), Intel® Core™ i7 4770R at 3.0 GHz with Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 5200 at 1.3 GHz, Windows 8.1, 8 GB DDR-1600. Output content is AVC 1080p

Windows* 8.1 Guest

Screen Capture

Skip Frame Detection

Dirty Rect Detection

Virtual DisplayRGB32

AVC Encode(with skip

region support)

Save power & system resources for cloud gaming or remote workstation.



Booting Intel® VCA: Startup

Embedded CentOSEmbedded CentOS

Host System

VCActlUtility

VCA Virtual Network Driver

Your host control app

CentOS Boot Image

Intel® Xeon® E3 Processor



(BIOS) Bootloader

Virtual Network

Intel® Media Server Studio Drivers


CentOS Boot Image

Ramdisk



Booting Intel® VCA: Communication

Embedded CentOSEmbedded CentOS

Host System

VCActlUtility

VCA Virtual Network Driver

Your host control app

MappedDirectories




(BIOS) Bootloader

Virtual Network

Your embedded code

Intel® Media Server Studio Drivers


CentOS Boot Image

Ramdisk

3 IP Addresses


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How Intel® Media Server Studio Runtimes Work on Intel® VCA

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Media SDK OpenCL™

HEVC Plugin

Packets in

Your Encoder AppExecuting from Ramdisk is preferred for frequently accessed runtimes, such as the SDK, Drivers & your application

With 16G per nodes & the default image, you will have around 14.5 G left

Use ssh to execute work on the nodes (for example to kick off a packet listener)

Application will assemble packets using the protocol of its choice

Encoder app will call OpenCL & Media SDK to process frames of work


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How to Get Started

1. Get the Intel® VCA hardware & software


2. Get Intel® Media Server Studio - software.intel.com/intel-media-server-studio

3. Make your own image or use ours as a reference

4. Customize your software, workload balancing & IP routing to meet your application needs

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Communicate at PCI speeds through a virtual network and nfs mapped disks

Media Server Studio is part of the Boot image (you can build or use the one VCA provides)

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/media-and-graphics/visual-compute-accelerator.html



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Summary

The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator provides an easily provisioned, easy-to-program environment leveraging Intel® Media Server Studio

redistributables plus its own custom control utilities & CentOS images.

Intel Media Server Studio provides a comprehensive set of tools to optimize the speed & video quality of Linear Broadcast,

OTT & remote desktop.

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More Resources

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Intel® Media Server Studio

Community, Essentials, Professional Editions

Download a Free Evaluation or the Community edition, purchase options

Intel® Video Pro Analyzer > Free Evaluation

Intel® Stress Bitstreams & Encode > Free Evaluation

software.intel.com/intel-media-server-studio


https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-media-server-studio/try-buy

https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-video-pro-analyzer

https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-stress-bitstreams-and-encoder



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Why Intel is the Best Choice for Media Solutions Providers

Intel won Technology Innovation Award in Video Transcoding

Frost & Sullivan, March 2015

Moscow State University Scores Intel HEVC Codec

with Fast Transcoding Title - 2015

Hardware

Intel® Xeon® and Core™ processers are optimized for live transcoding –each generation delivers improved performance & quality

Graphics processors provide advanced media features: Intel® Iris™ Pro & HD® Graphics & more

Software - Intel® Media Server Studio product family

Build high-performance media pipelines at low cost

Stay competitive by accelerating transitions to HEVC & 4K/UHD

Embed enterprise-grade codecs for quick time-to-market

Reduce development & engineering efforts - write applications once with full scalability & compatibility, automate validation

http://ww2.frost.com/files/5814/2601/4982/Intel_Award_Write_Up.pdf

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/10/23/intel-media-server-studio-hevc-codec-wins-transcoding-title



Customer Reviews

Intel® Media server studio Intel® Video Pro analyzer (Intel® VPA)

Intel® Stress Bitstreams & Encoder (Intel® SBE)

2 reasons we partner with Intel is we achieve amazing performance using GPU accelerated

technology…..we increased density from 6 streams on 1 server to 176 streams…..

Intel® Media Server Studio made the development experience easier…

…in SBP TV Mega Encoder...we can achieve up to 100 HD channels for multi-bitrates video transcoded streams. This a powerful video

transcoding solution, we have a competitive advantage in the OTT market & mobile TV. With

Intel® Media Server Studio, we achieved very good results - support was superb…

We evaluated several HEVC bitstream analyzers & purchased multiple seats of Intel VPA because it:

• Allows us to deliver superior video encoding algorithms

• Runs natively on many OS platforms, incl. Mac OS X

• Has extensive HEVC support, incl.10-bit & 4:4:4• Efficiently processes high-res files, incl. UHD/4K• Has a rich feature set that enables detailed low-

level analysis of HEVC bitstreams

Full article: Bitstream analyzer-A key tool for video encoder development

Intel's VP9 Bitstreams allowed us to verify our Hantro G2v2 VP9 Profile 2 Decoder IP in a reliable & efficient manner. This helped us become the first semiconductor IP provider

to support 10-bit Google video format. Intel SBE offers extensive coverage, giving us

confidence that our implementation is compliant to VP9 specification & that

customer’s chips can playback all VP9 content in YouTube* & other video services

See full quotes & in some cases videos at Product sites.

http://ngcodec.com/news/2015/11/2/bitstream-analyzer-a-key-tool-for-video-encoder-development

https://software.intel.com/en-us/tools-by-segment/media


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Intel® Processors with Intel® Quick Sync Video

Cisco* VNI Global Mobile Data Forecast http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/white_paper_c11-520862.html

Decoder EncoderVideo

Processing

Intel® Quick Sync Video enables dense real-time video transcoding

Intel® QuickSync Video Performance

Time

Number of Channels

VideoDemand†

Figure: Intel® QSV generational performance grows to address increasing video demand

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Intel® Media Server Studio Editions – At a Glance

Feature/Component Community Edition** Essentials Edition Professional Edition

Media SDK

Graphics Drivers

Code Samples

OpenCL™ Code Builder and Runtime

Metrics Monitor (Linux* only)

Intel® Premier Support

HEVC Decoder & Encoder, GPU Assist APIs

Audio Decoder & Encoder

Video Quality Caliper

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier

Premium Telecine Interlace Reverser

**Community edition is not applicable to Resellers

Premium Components

https://software.intel.com/en-us/opencl-code-builder



Intel® Media server studio editions

Intel® Video Pro analyzerIntel® Stress Bitstreams

& Encoder

ISVs/ODMsServer Applications Developers

Communications Infrastructure (Video Processing, Video Conferencing, Digital

Surveillance), Cloud & DataCenter

Video Codec Developers/Architects Video Software Experts

QA Engineers

Run fast and high-quality video transcoding

Build high-density solutions

Accelerate HEVC and UHD transitions

• Inspect the entire decoding process

• Debug and optimize encoders

• Analyze HEVC, VP9, AVC and MPEG-2 streams

• Innovate for UHD with HDR support

Ensure decoder compliance and robustness

Improve decoder performance

Build custom bitstreams for development and testing

Benefits

Users

Intel® Media Server Studio Product Family

Video Codec DevelopersQA Engineers

software.intel.com/intel-media-server-studio software.intel.com/en-us/intel-video-pro-analyzer software.intel.com/en-us/intel-stress-bitstreams-and-encoder


https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-video-pro-analyzer

https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-stress-bitstreams-and-encoder

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