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Intel Media Driver 2025Q1 Advertises Experimental Support For Panther Lake

([Intel] 6 Hours Ago Intel Media Driver 2025Q1)


In addition to this week's [1]updated Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime , Intel's software engineers also released their new quarterly version of the Intel Media Driver that provides Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for integrated graphics hardware going back to Broadwell processors and through the next-gen Panther Lake processors.

With this week's Intel Media Driver 2025Q1 release they continue supporting back through Broadwell but much of their focus is on current-gen Battlemage and Lunar Lake hardware as well as the experimental support for Panther Lake. The Intel Media Driver 2025Q1 release is the first time they are advertising their "experimental" support for Panther Lake processors with the Core Ultra Series 3 hardware expected later in 2025.

The 2025Q1 release for Panther Lake has upstreamed its VP9 encoding and decoding support. In addition the HEVC decoding code has been fixed up to address a hang observed with early Panther Lake test hardware.

In addition to the enablement work around Panther Lake video acceleration, the Intel Media Driver 2025Q1 release has enabled ARGB support for AV1 encoding on Meteor Lake SoCs. There is also a fix for a heap corruption problem on aging Tiger Lake hardware. Plus various other fixes.

The Intel Media Driver 2025Q1 release can be downloaded from [2]GitHub for those wanting to enjoy the best VA-API encode/decode experience on Linux with Intel hardware.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-VPL-GPU-RT-End-Media-SDK

[2] https://github.com/intel/media-driver/releases/tag/intel-media-25.1.4


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`Lasu' Releases SAG 0.3 -- Freeware Book Takes Paves For New World Order
by staff writers

Helsinki, Finland, August 6, 1995 -- In a surprise movement, Lars
``Lasu'' Wirzenius today released the 0.3 edition of the ``Linux System
Administrators' Guide''. Already an industry non-classic, the new
version sports such overwhelming features as an overview of a Linux
system, a completely new climbing session in a tree, and a list of
acknowledgements in the introduction.
The SAG, as the book is affectionately called, is one of the
corner stones of the Linux Documentation Project. ``We at the LDP feel
that we wouldn't be able to produce anything at all, that all our work
would be futile, if it weren't for the SAG,'' says Matt Welsh, director
of LDP, Inc.
The new version is still distributed freely, now even with a
copyright that allows modification. ``More dough,'' explains the author.
Despite insistent rumors about blatant commercialization, the SAG will
probably remain free. ``Even more dough,'' promises the author.
The author refuses to comment on Windows NT and Windows 96
versions, claiming not to understand what the question is about.
Industry gossip, however, tells that Bill Gates, co-founder and CEO of
Microsoft, producer of the Windows series of video games, has visited
Helsinki several times this year. Despite of this, Linus Torvalds,
author of the word processor Linux with which the SAG was written, is
not worried. ``We'll have world domination real soon now, anyway,'' he
explains, ``for 1.4 at the lastest.''
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-- Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cs.helsinki.fi>
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