With the 2.0 version of SDK, we make a step forward and release a final version of the gpu_pipeline feature.
Now we can process all SDK scenarios with the power of NVidia, Intel or AMD GPU cards.
Gpu pipeline should work fine with all Windows versions older than Windows 7. Unfortunately, Windows 7 doesn't support all DirectX 11 features[reference].
What features are processing with GPU pipeline?
All. Include preview, conversion, scaling, Chroma Keying, CG, HTML5.
How to turn on GPU pipeline?
With registry:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Medialooks\MFormats\MFFactory
gpu_pipeline=true
With code:
//We need to turn on this property before your create any other SDK objects.
myFactory = new MFFactoryClass();
myFactory.PropsSet("gpu_pipeline", "true");
GPU pipeline and GPU decoding.
At this moment, because of architecture aspects, we need to separately turn on the GPU decoding even if the GPU pipeline feature is active. How to do it you can we wrote in this article: GPU-powered decoding