Microsoft Speeds Up Mesa VA-API Video Acceleration For FFmpeg

[Volta]

Which is true of pretty much all major players in open source, and yet not all receive the same amount of hate.

What a surprise. Get the facts (TM).

[intelfx]

I don't understand what MS is getting out of this. It's a nice patch but I can't help but wonder why they're doing it.

Because it benefits their WSL-g support (graphics inside WSL) which they've been steadily working towards for more than a year now?

[sinepgib]

I don't understand what MS is getting out of this. It's a nice patch but I can't help but wonder why they're doing it.

Maybe they intend to support video playback in WSL2 and they want their users to have an acceptable experience.

It puts you naive M$ believers in 'we're stupid camp'. This is nothing in comparison to MS benefits from Open Source.

Which is true of pretty much all major players in open source, and yet not all receive the same amount of hate.

[schmidtbag]

I don't understand what MS is getting out of this. It's a nice patch but I can't help but wonder why they're doing it.

[Termy]

Michael please remove this article, it puts us, Microsoft haters, in an awkward position.

Why and where should it do that?

Probably the first MS Mesa contribution I've seen, that benefits everyone, not just them.

Well, for not it only benefits them. I guess they only had to make it potentially compatible with other drivers to have a chance of getting it mainlined...

[Devorlon]

From the gitlab:

"Good implementation, we will also enable this on radeon drivers as well." - Ruijing Dong

[uid313]

Thank you Microsoft! ❤️

[nist]

I begin to consider the possibility that Microsoft own Linux.

Microsoft really own Ubuntu (Canonical).

[Volta]

Michael please remove this article, it puts us, Microsoft haters, in an awkward position.

It puts you naive M$ believers in 'we're stupid camp'. This is nothing in comparison to MS benefits from Open Source.

[user1]

Probably the first MS Mesa contribution I've seen, that benefits everyone, not just them.