Attention

This version of the SDK has been superseded by the latest release of the SDK.

Announcements

This section of the documentation provides early notification for upcoming features, obsoleted options and other forthcoming changes.

Upcoming Features

The following table lists features that will be available in upcoming release, along with a brief explanation, where applicable:

Features	Notes
8Kp30 AV1 Type-1 Encode	This feature is now available for all valid ranges of lookahead depth.
Double Density Decoding	This update doubles the decoding densities for AVC, HEVC and AV1 Type-2.
Downscaling in Decoder	This will be a new option in decoder's plugin.
Still Image Encoding	Targeted formats are JPEG lossy and lossless, along with AVIF.
Still Image Decoding	Targeted formats are JPEG lossy and lossless.
New 2D Engine Capabilities	These include a high throughput, feature rich, and interactive compositor, along with new 2D capabilities such as alpha-blending.
New and Improved ML Encoding	These include a new ML based rate controller and improved high density ROI encoder.
Gstreamer PCIe Peer to Peer	This new capability allows for high bandwidth traffic between peer devices, e.g. a discrete GPU and MA35D, without involving the host CPU.
PCIe Passthrough	With this feature, any host OS can utilize MA35D cards, without requiring host specific drivers.
Data and Meta Passthrough	This update preserves SEI messages, user-data closed captions, and color space through out the pipeline.
Multi-device Pipelines	This enhancements allows for inclusion of more than one device in a video pipeline.
Improved DMA	New APIs and plugins that improve transfers to and from the host, will be included in upcoming release.
Fedora Support	Upcoming release will support Fedora 40.
FFmpeg Support	Upcoming release will support Ffmpeg 6.1.1.

Obsoleted Features

The following table lists features that will be deprecated in upcoming release, along with a brief explanation, where applicable:

Features	Notes
2D Engine Interface	A new streamlined APIs and plugin parameter set will replace the current ones. Changes to plugin parameters and APIs are to be expected.
Card Managements Utilities	This updates will merge all administrative tasks into mamgmt, including maflash, with mautil focusing on user domain activities. Changes to plugin parameters and APIs are to be expected.
FFmpeg	The upcoming release will drop support for FFmpeg 5.1.2