Introduction:
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This is a Beta Release of NVENC SDK 5.0. This SDK release is backward compatible with all previous NVENC SDK releases.

Applications or source projects that use the NVIDIA NVENC Video Encoder API require:
* Windows: NVIDIA driver version 347.09 or higher
* Linux: NVIDIA driver 346.22  or higher
* Support for NVIDIA GPUs based on the Kepler and Maxwell first generation and second generation architecture

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This package contains:

1) nvEncoder Sample application source code demonstrating various encoding capabilities

2) NVENC - NVIDIA SDK 5 Samples Guide
   - [.\Samples\NVENC_Samples_Guide.pdf]
3) NVENC - NVIDIA Video Encoder API header
   - [.\common\inc\nvEncodeAPI.h]
4) NVIDIA Hardware Video Encoder (Application Note)
   - [.\doc\NVENC_DA-06209-001_v06.pdf]
5) NVENC - NVIDIA Video Encoder Interface Programming Guide
   - [.\doc\NVENC_VideoEncoder_API_ProgGuide.pdf]
6) NVENC - Video Encoder API Reference Manual
   - [.\doc\nvEncodeAPI_v.5.0.pdf]

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Changes and new features in NVENC SDK 5.0 as compared to NVENC SDK 4.0

1) Support for Second Generation Maxwell GPUs and Software support for new Hardware features available in the architecture along with the support for earlier Hardware. Please refer to .\doc\NVENC_DA-06209-001_v06.pdf to get more details on the new encoding features supported in the second generation Maxwell GPUs. 
2) Several bug-fixes
