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Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video
The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs
This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers with Vulkan Video support underneath. David Airlie and Mike Blumenkrantz have long toyed with the idea of VA-API over Vulkan Video while as of yesterday this merge request was opened with the initial bits. While not part of the initial merge request, there is code baking for getting H.264 and AV1 video decoding working with this VA-API-over-Vulkan-Video flow too.
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