Intel Talks Up Their oneVPL Acceleration Within FFmpeg

[Quackdoc]

I cant even get my pal's DG2 to work with vaapi at all, running into some bugs with any vaapi operation

[StefanBruens]

What Intel has done very well here is to access the legacy Media SDK through oneVPL, so there is one API to target old and new hardware.

For distributions this allows to just switch to oneVPL, without leaving users of old hardware behind.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Talks Up Their oneVPL Acceleration Within FFmpeg

Last month Intel began landing oneVPL support within FFmpeg as their video processing and acceleration library that is part of their oneAPI toolkit. The oneVPL Video Processing Library supports CPU-based execution as well as native Intel GPU acceleration for their latest Gen12/Xe hardware with a focus on Arc Graphics / DG2 hardware, targeting the Intel Media SDK for their older GPUs, and can be adapted for other possible back-ends...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-oneVPL-FFmpeg-Accel