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Hardware Video Acceleration on IGEL OS

Question

Does my hardware running IGEL OS offer video acceleration?

Answer

Open Application Launcher > About to look up your product ID and device type:

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In version 5.07.100 and newer and version 10.01.100 and newer, IGEL OS offers hardware video acceleration for

  • Media Player

  • Citrix Multimedia Redirection

  • RDP Multimedia Redirection (TSMF and EVOR)

  • VMware Horizon Multimedia Redirection

on selected devices. This allows playing back HD video with a maximum of 20% CPU usage.

The Multimedia Codec Pack (MMCP) is required for this feature if your IGEL OS version is lower than 11.01.100.

Hardware video acceleration is supported on the following IGEL devices:

Product ID

Device Type

Chipset

IGEL Linux >= v5.07.100

IGEL Linux >= v5.09.100

IGEL OS 10

IGEL OS 11

IZ2-HDX/RFX/HORIZON 40*

IGEL D220

Intel Bay Trail

✓

✓

✓

✓*

IZ3-HDX/RFX/HORIZON 41, 42

IGEL M330C

VIA VX900

✓




IZ3-HDX/RFX/HORIZON 50*

IGEL M340C

ATI Mullins


✓

✓

✓*

IZ3-HDX/RFX/HORIZON 51*

IGEL M340C

ATI Mullins



✓

✓*

UD2-LX 40

IGEL D220

Intel Bay Trail

✓

✓

✓

✓

UD2-LX 50, 51

IGEL M250C

Intel HD Graphics




✓

UD3-LX 40

IGEL M320C

VIA VX900

✓

✓



UD3-LX 41, 42

IGEL M330C

VIA VX900

✓

✓



UD3-LX 50

IGEL M340C

ATI Mullins


✓

✓

✓

UD3-LX 51

IGEL M340C

ATI Mullins



✓

✓

UD3-LX 60

IGEL M350C

AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics




✓

UD5-LX 40

IGEL H820C

Intel Sandy Bridge

✓

✓

✓


UD5-LX 50

IGEL H830C (Dualcore CPU Model)

Intel Bay Trail

✓

✓

✓

✓

UD6-LX 51

IGEL H830C (Quadcore CPU Model)

Intel Bay Trail

✓

✓

✓

✓

UD7-LX 10

IGEL H850C

AMD Radeon Graphics



✓

✓

UD7-LX 11

IGEL H850C

AMD Radeon Graphics




✓

UD7-LX 20

IGEL H860C

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics




✓

UD9-LX 40, UD9-LX 41 Touch

IGEL UD9 BT

Intel Bay Trail


✓

✓

✓

UD10-LX

IGEL UD10 TC236

VIA VX900

✓

✓



On 3rd-party hardware with UDC3, IGEL OS Creator (OSC), and UD Pocket, hardware video acceleration depends on the graphics chipset of the device.

Codecs

The following codecs are supported:

  • MPEG-2 (simple and main profiles)

  • H.264 (baseline, main and high profiles)

  • WVC1/WMV3 (simple, main and advanced profiles)

  • MPEG-4 (DivX/Xvid): only on VIA VX900 and ATI Mullins


* To upgrade your IZ device to IGEL OS 11, please contact your IGEL sales representative. See also https://www.igel.com/tradeup/ and The IGEL OS 11 Migration Plan.