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This version of the SDK has been superseded by the latest release of the SDK.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 new features that will be available in the upcoming release, along with a brief explanation, where applicable:

Features

Notes

Alma 9.4

Alma 9.4 with kernel 5.14.0, will be supported in the upcoming release.

Obsoleted Features

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

Features

Notes

Rate Control Parameters

To ensure consistent video quality, encoding parameters such as bit rate, qp, and crf value must be set, explicitly.

FFmpeg Hardware Upload and Download

To ensure optimal host-device data transaction, generic hwupload, and hwdownload plugins are replaced by their specialized counterparts hwupload_ama and hwdownload_ama.