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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2007
Anand Ganesh, Redmond, WA (US);
Donald J. Munsil, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gary J. Sullivan, Redmond, WA (US);
Glenn F. Evans, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shyam Sadhwani, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stephen J. Estrop, Carnation, WA (US);
Anand Ganesh, Redmond, WA (US);
Donald J. Munsil, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gary J. Sullivan, Redmond, WA (US);
Glenn F. Evans, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shyam Sadhwani, Bellevue, WA (US);
Stephen J. Estrop, Carnation, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A video encoding acceleration service to increase one or more of the speed and quality of video encoding is described. The service acts as an intermediary between an arbitrary video encoder computer program application and arbitrary video acceleration hardware. The service receives one or more queries from the video encoder to identify implementation specifics of the video acceleration hardware. The service interfaces with the video acceleration hardware to obtain the implementation specifics. The service communicates the implementation specifics to the video encoder. The implementation specifics enable the video encoder to: (a) determine whether one or more of speed and quality of software encoding operations associated with the video encoder can be increased with implementation of a pipeline of one or more supported encoding pipeline configurations and capabilities, and (b) implement the pipeline by interfacing with the service.