Overview: Intel
Intel media interfaces connect video engines and processing facilities to supported application operations.
Quick Sync identifies a media-acceleration technology, while VPL and the legacy Media SDK describe software relationships to supported hardware. VPP adds video-processing operations to that picture. These topics locate the names in the pipeline so decode, processing and encode support can be discussed separately.
Intel Quick Sync Video (QSV)
Intel Quick Sync Video is the name for Intel’s dedicated media-acceleration capabilities, reached through supported software and driver paths for decoding, processing and encoding.Intel VPL and oneVPL
Intel VPL is the media library interface and dispatcher used to select supported Intel video implementations and coordinate decode, encode and processing sessions.Intel Media SDK (legacy)
Intel Media SDK is a discontinued media software interface whose names remain in older Intel acceleration stacks and logs, distinct from the hardware generations those stacks use.Intel video processing (VPP)
Intel VPP processes decoded pictures into a requested output picture configuration, coordinating supported transformations, output cadence and surface completion.