v23.11

New and Changed in Release v23.11

v23.11

New and Changed in v23.11

• NEW:Enabled OpenCL acceleration, supported Intel® GPUs platforms.
• NEW:Enabled AVX512-FP16 for faster processing on 4th generation Intel® Xeon Scalable processor.
• NEW:Supported 1.5x upscaling for 8-bit.
• NEW:Added filters with denoising effect.
• NEW:Supported YUV444 format in ffmpeg plugin which can improve quality for input and output in RBG or YUV444 format.
• NEW:Added new dockerfiles with Ubuntu 22.04 and CentOS 7.9.
• Upgraded ffmpeg to n6.0.
• Improved performance for Intel® Xeon platforms.
• Optimized the filter size and enhanced filter file format to binary.
• Removed the filters2, filters3, filters5 and renamed filters1->filters_2x/filters_lowres and filters4->filters_2x/filters_highres, and improved the quality of filters_highres.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the segmentation fault issue with some specific threadcount.
• Fixed the black block issue with blending=1 cases.

Known Limitations

• Only 2x and 1.5x upscaling supported.
• patchSize passed into RNLInit must be set to 11. Algorithms are currently tuned to work only with a patch size of 11. Values other than 11 will fail.
• For usage of Intel AVX2, system hardware must be run on Intel Haswell Processor or later. For usage of Intel AVX-512, system hardware must be run on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (1st Gen or later, Skylake or later ). For usage of Intel AVX512-FP16, system hardware must be run on 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors or later.