[zzalpha]

Oh. Well that's disappointing. I was hoping this would be about a modern video/audio decode, synchronize, and display pipeline... not that knowing how video streamed on the web isn't interesting, but it's really about how modern video streaming works.

[smalley]

Not that its particularly casually browsable but there are some details in the programmer reference manuals for the Intel integrated graphics encode/decode hardware. If you head to volume 8 the MFx introduction section has some sample flows before it starts getting into command packet details: https://01.org/sites/default/files/documentation/intel-gfx-p...

[eldod]

It talks about modern streaming indeed, but if you take a closer look, most of the video consumption today is done by streaming: on Desktop you still have a small portions of download then watch, but on mobile, Set Top Boxes like AppleTV and Roku, connected TVs, etc. You watch everything from the web.

Besides, the decoding/sync/rendering part didn't really change in the last 10 years, the innovations mostly arrived from the Web streaming use cases, with adaptive bitrate formats, that partly solved the multi-devices streaming problem we started to have with the rise of Mobile and OTT (over-the-top) video streaming.