DISCONTINUATION OF PROJECT.
This project will no longer be maintained by Intel.
Intel has ceased development and contributions including, but not limited to, maintenance, bug and security fixes, new releases, or updates, to this project.
Intel no longer accepts patches to this project.
If you have an ongoing need to use this project, are interested in independently developing it, or would like to maintain patches for the open source software community, please create your own fork of this project.
For continued support and access to new features or new hardwares, you are
encouraged to move to Intel(R) Media Driver for VAAPIhttps://github.com/intel/media-driver.
VA-API (Video Acceleration API) user mode driver for Intel GEN Graphics family
VA-API is an open-source library and API specification, which provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing. It consists of a main library and driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware vendor.
The current video driver backend provides a bridge to the GEN GPUs through the packaging of buffers and commands to be sent to the i915 driver for exercising both hardware and shader functionality for video decode, encode, and processing.
If you would like to contribute to intel-vaapi-driver, check our Contributing guide.
We also recommend taking a look at the 'janitorial' bugs in our list of open issues as these bugs can be solved without an extensive knowledge of intel-vaapi-driver.
We would love to help you start contributing!
The intel vaapi media development team can be reached via our mailing list and on IRC in channel ##intel-media on Freenode.
We also use #Slack and host VAAPI Media Slack Team. You can signup by submitting your email address to our Slack Team invite page.
Slack complements our other means of communication. Pick the one that works best for you!