Introduction:
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This is release 6.0 of NVIDIA Video Codec SDK, which adds the following major features:

* H.264 Motion Estimation Only Mode
* HEVC Adaptive Quantization 
* Abilitiy for NVEncode API to take RGB surface as inputs for limited color spaces. 
* Decoding Samples to demonstrate the decoding capabilities on NVIDIA GPUs.

Please refer to .\doc\NVENC_DA-06209-001_v07.pdf and .\doc\NVIDIA_Video_Decoder.pdf to get more details on the encoding and decoding functionalities supported in the current SDK. 

For system, software and build environment requirements, please refer to the file Readme.txt included in the SDK package.

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This package contains:

1) Sample applications demonstrating various encoding/decoding capabilities. 

2) NVENC - NVIDIA Video Codec SDK Samples Guide
   - [.\Samples\NVIDIA_Video_Codec_SDK_Samples_Guide.pdf]

3) NVENC - NVIDIA Video Encoder API header
   - [.\Samples\common\inc\nvEncodeAPI.h]

4) NVENC - NVIDIA Video Encoder Application Note
   - [.\doc\NVENC_DA-06209-001_v07.pdf]

5) NVENC - NVIDIA Video Encoder (NVENC) Interface (Programming Guide)
   - [.\doc\NVENC_VideoEncoder_API_ProgGuide.pdf]

6) NVENC - NVIDIA Video Encoder API Reference Manual
   - [.\doc\NvEncodeAPI_v.6.0.pdf]
   - [.\doc\NvEncodeAPI_v.6.0.chm]

7) NVDEC - NVIDIA Video Decoder (NVCUVID) (Programming Guide)
   - [.\doc\NVIDIA_Video_Decoder.pdf]

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