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Intel Media Driver 2026Q1 Continues Nova Lake S Enablement

([Intel] 4 Hours Ago Intel Media Driver 2026Q1)


Intel today published their official quarterly feature release to their open-source Media Driver providing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support on Linux.

Most notable with the Intel Media Driver 2026Q1 is Nova Lake S enablement work. The accelerated VP9 and JPEG encode are now in place and ready to go for NVL-S as part of the broader Nova Lake enablement going on throughout the Linux landscape for these next-generation Intel processors.

The Intel Media Driver update also brings fixes for HEVC decode, AV1 decode, VP9 decode, and media decode fixes in general. This open-source Intel Media Driver continues to support Intel integrated graphics back to Broadwell CPUs while supporting through latest Battlemage dGPUs and next-gen Nova Lake iGPUs.

Downloads and all the details on this quarterly Intel VA-API driver update via [1]GitHub .

Also released today is [2]Intel oneVPL 26.1.5 as their associated VPL GPU Runtime release for their media stack. There is better robustness in the AV1 decode path and various other fixes to this runtime.



[1] https://github.com/intel/media-driver/releases/tag/intel-media-26.1.5

[2] https://github.com/intel/vpl-gpu-rt/releases/tag/intel-onevpl-26.1.5


The justifications for drug testing are part of the presently fashionable
debate concerning restoring America's "competitiveness." Drugs, it has been
revealed, are responsible for rampant absenteeism, reduced output, and poor
quality work. But is drug testing in fact rationally related to the
resurrection of competitiveness? Will charging the atmosphere of the
workplace with the fear of excretory betrayal honestly spur productivity?
Much noise has been made about rehabilitating the worker using drugs, but
to date the vast majority of programs end with the simple firing or the not
hiring of the abuser. This practice may exacerbate, not alleviate, the
nation's productivity problem. If economic rehabilitation is the ultimate
goal of drug testing, then criteria abandoning the rehabilitation of the
drug-using worker is the purest of hypocrisy and the worst of rationalization.
-- The concluding paragraph of "Constitutional Law: The
Fourth Amendment and Drug Testing in the Workplace,"
Tim Moore, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, vol.
10, No. 3 (Summer 1987), pp. 762-768.