Intel Media VA-API Driver Update Adds EU Fused Dispatch For 8K Video Processing

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Intel Media VA-API Driver Update Adds EU Fused Dispatch For 8K Video Processing

31 December 2020, 11:20 AM

Phoronix: Intel Media VA-API Driver Update Adds EU Fused Dispatch For 8K Video Processing

Yesterday Intel released an updated open-source Media SDK for leveraging media acceleration on their graphics hardware. Along with that out today is the Intel Media Driver 20.4.5 release as their dedicated Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems...

Intel Media VA-API Driver Update Adds EU Fused Dispatch For 8K Video Processing - Phoronix

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31 December 2020, 02:03 PM

Among the Gen12 improvements this quarter is getting VP8 decode working for this latest hardware

I thought Gen12 does not support VP8, it isn't even in the datasheet, this is odd.

The EU fused dispatch support is for handling 8K video processing with the VA-API driver.

What does it mean exactly, what is different?
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