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Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface

([Intel] 6 Hours Ago libva 2.22)


Intel engineers today released version 2.22 of libva, the driver-agnostic library for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Most notable with libva 2.22 is adding a new interface for Versatile Video Coding (VVC / H.266).

So far we haven't seen any GPU-based video decode support for VVC/H.266 with this video compression format only having been finalized in 2020. Even among CPU-based encoders/decoders for this H.265/HEVC successor they aren't too mature and optimized yet. But with Intel engineers having now added a VVC interface to libva, it looks like GPU-accelerated VVC playback could be arriving for Intel graphics within the next generation or two.

The libva 2.22 support just adds the new interface/API around LibVA VVC support while it's still up to the actual VA-API hardware drivers like the Intel Media Driver to implement the interface where supported/capable.

Another notable addition with libva 2.22 is adding support for the Linux DMA-BUF protocol use when running on Wayland.

Downloads and more details on the libva 2.22 release via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.22.0



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