Product Brief

Ensure Robust HEVC and VP9 Video Decodersand Speed Debug and Validation
Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder 2016 (Intel® SBE)
Video Analysis, Debug, and Validation Tools

Improve Compliance and Cut Engineering Costs andTime to Market
Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder (Intel® SBE) allows you to:• Perform extensive, production-scale media validation and debug• Ensure robustness and compliance for HEVC and VP9 decoders and encoders• Use industry-leading HEVC range extensions with HEVC 4:2:2 and 10-bit support• Accelerate test validation cycles, reduce costs, and speed time to market• Customize your own bitstreams for testing• Assess and optimize your own stream base for coverage and usage efficiency

Validation Bitstreams for HEVC and VP9 Decoders
Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder is part ofthe Intel® Media Server Studio product family.

Intel SBE includes HEVC or VP9 video streams packaged with a unique software
encoder. Bitstreams are carefully designed to integrate into enterprise-grade
product compliance validation and debugging processes of VP9 and HEVC
decoders, transcoders, players, and streaming solutions. To optimize for fast test
cycles, we designed stress streams which provide a small footprint and excellent
syntactical coverage. For quick debug if an issue is found, we provide a broad
range of focused syntax stream tests. Unlike standards compliance bitstreams,
Intel® SBE provides high-combinatorial coverage needed to test your decoder.

Extensive Validation Coverage for Industry Compliance
Due to the syntactical flexibility allowed in modern coding standards, video
encoders are capable of producing variety of bitstreams. A decoder (or videoplayer) needs a way to validate against every possible encoder in the market, bothtoday and in the future. It seems impossible, but it is possible to model suchencoders by creating a highly configurable encoder driven by an advanced entropy
model—an Encoder Compiler. The output of this compiler is rigorously tested forcoverage of important combinations of syntax elements and values. After an issue
is found in decoder under test, it can be debugged using special streams designed
to accelerate this debugging as well. Intel SBE allows developers to compare theirdecoders’ output with known correct outputs to determine anomalies in theirproducts and save overall validation and support cost.

Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder

2Intel® Stress Bitstreams
and Encoder• HEVC and VP9 Formats: Supports HEVC
Main/Main10/Main4:2:2 and 100% VP9specs.
• Debug Syntax, Test Syntax Bitstreams:
Debug a decoder and executecomprehensive validation.
• Stress Bitstreams: Test a decoder withspec bound conditions, maximizing
memory read access and CABAC.
• Random Encoders. Make a new custom
bitstream−HEVC up to Level 6.2; VP9and HEVC.
• Visual Coverage: Visualize test bitstreams
for system integrators.
• Error Resilience: Fix corrupted bitstreams
and generating encoder for testing
decoder’s error concealment.
• Bitstream Base Optimization andCoverage Visual Reporting Tools• Reference Decoders and Checksums• Detailed Coverage ReportIntel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder is a member ofthe Intel® Media Server Studio product family. It can beused alone or with Intel® Media Server Studio 2015
Professional Edition and Intel® Video Pro Analyzer.

Figure 1.The advanced entropy model (top) is designed to create
unusual combinations of syntax elements to push the limits ofcompliance bitstreams, as shown with Intel® Video Pro Analyzer.

HEVC and VP9 Bitstreams
Due to high demand for online video content, and bandwidth
constraints, next generation, efficient video codecs like HEVC
and VP9 are replacing AVC and MPEG-2 for future video feeds.
Validation/QA and video codec development teams, content
developers, , and researchers can benefit from Intel Stress
Bitstreams to ensure their video playback, streaming anddistribution solutions can support all compliant formats inputs.

Cut Development Costs and Time to Marketfor Video ProductsIntel carefully structured the streams to be as compact as possible during validation. (This reduces the time to validate yourproduct.) Plus, the package contains a large number of streams
to assist in debug.
You can also generate custom streams, which can be advantageous if you want to test, for example, syntax correctness of afilter or error resilience.
New Intel SBE developer tools give you the ability to build syntax and code branch coverage reports for any set of streams.
Optimize your stream base to select only what’s needed forparticular test coverage, and dynamically improve it over time.

Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder3Figure 2. Intel stress bitstreams are designed to confuse decoders. In this example, compute complexity
caused by special coding elements choices looks chaotic but are legal and produce perfectly correct results.

Features• HEVC Streams: Main Profile (8-bit). Ultra compact our small validation streams for smoke
test are only 13.5 MB, while our full debug syntax and stress streams require only 1.5 GB.
• VP9 Streams: Feature Set 1 for 8-bit 4:2:0, with latest Google* syntax. Ultra compact, thesmall validation streams are only 6.3 MB, while the full debug syntax and stress streams
require only 1 GB.
• Reference Decoders: Get reference decoders for both HEVC and VP9.
• Checksums: Get checksums for all bitstreams matched against reference decoders.
• Random Encoders
HEVC Main/Main 10/Main 4:2:2 up to Level 6.2
VP9 and HEVC: Varying resolution, slice structure, GOP structure, and syntax constraints.
-VP9 FC1 Delivers VP9 Feature Set 1 (8-bit 4:2:0)-VP9 FC2P1 Delivers VP9 Feature Set 2/Proﬁle 1(8-bit 4:2:2/4:4:0/4:4:4 chroma sub sampling)4Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder-VP9 FC2P2 Delivers VP9 Feature Set 2/Proﬁle 2 (10-bitand 12-bit 4:2:0)-VP9 FC2P3 Delivers VP9 Feature Set 2/Proﬁle 3 (10-bitand 12-bit 4:2:2/4:4:0/4:4:4 chroma sub sampling)-VP9 MixP0-P1, MixP0-P2, MixAll-VP9 FC1 and FC2 Proﬁle 2 Error Resiliance•`Visual Coverage: Visual Test Bitstreams for system
integrators: In addition to highly randomized bitstreams forcompliance test, we provide Visual Bitstreams, which do
not have visual artifacts and best ﬁt for DigitalTV and STBveriﬁcation.
-VP9 FC1 Visual-VP9 FC2 Proﬁle 2 Visual• Error Resilience: Bitstreams to test decoder concealment
to network bits and packet loss, incompliant encoders
production

Technical Speciﬁcations
Hardware Requirements• Intel® CPU supporting Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 2(SSE2), 1GB RAM minimum

Companion Tools
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Intel® Media Server Studio
Create innovative, enterpise-grade media
solutions that deliver fast, high-density
media transcoding, speed the transition
to HEVC and 4K, and reduce costs. Learn
more here.

Intel® Video Pro Analyzer
Advanced video analysis software tools
for HEVC, VP9, AVC, and MPEG-2 videocoding standards allow deep visualinspection of the complete decoding
process, extract statistics, debug, andmore. Learn more here.

• 4 GB recommended when loading 4K pictures

Software Support• Microsoft Windows* 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 32-bit/64-bit• Ubuntu Linux* 12.04.64• SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11-64• Macintosh OS X* 10.9
• Encoders on Windows and LinuxLearn More About Intel Stress
Bitstreams and Encoder• Download a free trial version >• Learn more >• Buy now >For hardware and other technical requirements, see the latest Release Notes.
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