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Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 Released With Battlemage Video Encode
The Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 release was tagged this Saturday as the quarterly update to Intel's open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems.
The Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 release was tagged this Saturday as the quarterly update to Intel's open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems. For Battlemage there is VA-API encoding with this driver for AVC, JPEG, HEVC 8-bit and 10-bit, and AV1 8-bit and 10-bit. In addition to the Battlemage encode support upstream, the Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 release also has a number of AV1 fixes in general, AV1 ARGB encode support, and other video coding fixes.
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