Intel Media Driver 20.2.pre4 Brings DG1 Graphics Card Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Media Driver 20.2.pre4 Brings DG1 Graphics Card Support

Intel's open-source media team has released a new development snapshot of their media driver that provides GPU-accelerated video encode/decode capabilities on Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Media-Driver-20.2.pre4

[treba]

Nice to see fixes etc. here. Unfortunately the media driver can not be used for Firefox yet due to sandboxing issues (1,2). Apart from that, VAAPI support in Firefox is coming along nicely (3), so we'll hopefully see this driver being used much more soon.

1: https://mastransky.wordpress.com/202...pi-on-wayland/
2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619585
3: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619523

[Aryma]

no Haswell iGPU support :'(

[wagner17]

Nice to see fixes etc. here. Unfortunately the media driver can not be used for Firefox yet due to sandboxing issues (1,2). Apart from that, VAAPI support in Firefox is coming along nicely (3), so we'll hopefully see this driver being used much more soon.

1: https://mastransky.wordpress.com/202...pi-on-wayland/
2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619585
3: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619523

It's been working for me all this month with Firefox 77 using the stock Mozilla binaries and I didn't disable sandboxing. I rebooted and checked Fedora 32 and it worked there too.

P.S. I don't use SELinux.