Intel Video Processing Library Adding AI Assisted Video Encoder Features

Intel has released version 2.16 of its Video Processing Library (libvpl), which primarily introduces experimental Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for AI-assisted video encoding functionality. Libvpl acts as a dispatcher between the Intel Media SDK and the VPL GPU Runtime components. The key addition is the new `mfxExtAIEncCtrl` interface, which is experimental and designed to control AI-assisted encoder solutions. Specifically, the new APIs support a saliency encoder solution and an ML-based adaptive target usage solution. The author notes that while the header structures for these features are present in the open-source VPL GPU Runtime code, there are no immediate associated commits showing the actual implementation, suggesting these features might be reserved for binary-only components. The release is available on GitHub.

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