What's New in Video Codec SDK 7.1:
---------------------------------
In NVIDIA Video Codec SDK release 7.1, following features have been added:

1) Enhancements to H.264 motion estimation only mode:
       a) Ability to select specific motion vector partitions and intra mode enable/disable for motion estimation only mode.
       b) Performance enhancement for stereo mode motion-estimation.
2) Streamlined the nomenclature of rate control modes. 
3) Quality improvement for H.264 Temporal Adaptive Quantization(TAQ). 


What's New in Video Codec SDK 7.0:
---------------------------------

In NVIDIA Video SDK release 7.0, following features have been added:

Encode Features 
-----------------
1)HEVC Sample Adaptive Offset(SAO) 
2)HEVC 4:4:4 encoding
3)HEVC 10-Bit encoding
4)HEVC Lossless encoding
5)HEVC Long Term Reference (LTR) Frame support 
6)HEVC 8K (8192 x 8192) encoding
7)HEVC Motion Estimation (ME) only Mode  
8)Look-ahead
9)Asynchronous H.264 Motion Estimation (ME) only Mode (Synchronous Mode was already supported)
10)Improved Spatial Adaptive Quantization 
11)H.264 Temporal Adaptive Quantization 


Decode Features 
-----------------
1)VP9 Decoding 
2)VP8 Decoding 
3)HEVC 8K Decoding 
4)VP9 8K Decoding 

Please refer to .\doc\NVENC_DA-06209-001_v08.pdf and .\doc\NVDEC_DA-06209-001_v08.pdf to get more details about the available encoding and decoding functionalities in the SDK. 

For system, software and build environment requirements, please refer to the file Readme.txt included in the SDK package.

Package Contents
----------------

This package contains:

1) Sample applications demonstrating various encoding/decoding capabilities, in directory .\Samples\

2) NVIDIA Video Codec SDK Samples Guide
   - [.\Samples\NVIDIA_Video_Codec_SDK_Samples_Guide.pdf]

3) NVIDIA Video Encoder API header
   - [.\Samples\common\inc\nvEncodeAPI.h]

4) NVIDIA Video Encoder Application Note
   - [.\doc\NVENC_DA-06209-001_v08.pdf]

5) NVIDIA Video Encoder Programming Guide
   - [.\doc\NVENC_VideoEncoder_API_ProgGuide.pdf]

6) NVIDIA Video Encoder API Reference Manual
   - [.\doc\NvEncodeAPI_v.7.1.chm]
   - [.\doc\NvEncodeAPI_v.7.1.pdf]

7) NVIDIA Video Decoder API header
   - [.\Samples\common\inc\dynlink_cuviddec.h]
   - [.\Samples\common\inc\dynlink_nvcuvid.h]

8) NVIDIA Video Decoder Application Note
   - [.\doc\NVDEC_DA-06209-001_v08.pdf]

9) NVIDIA Video Decoder (NVCUVID) (Programming Guide)
   - [.\doc\NVDEC_VideoDecoder_API_ProgGuide.pdf]

Please note that the sample applications provided in the package are for demonstration purposes only and may not be fully tuned for Quality and Performance. 
Hence the users are advised to do their independent evaluation for Quality and/or performance. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

