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Mesa 25.1 To Enable Working Chromium VA-API Support
A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers.
A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers. David Rosca's focus continues to be on enhancing the Mesa video acceleration support for AMD Radeon GPUs but these Chromium processing fixes and ARGB support are touching the common Gallium3D VA state tracker code. The code was merged on Wednesday and in turn will be found in next quarter's Mesa 25.1 feature release.
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