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Intel Media Driver 2025Q1 Advertises Experimental Support For Panther Lake
In addition to this week's 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.
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. In addition the HEVC decoding code has been fixed up to address a hang observed with early Panther Lake test hardware. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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