Microsoft Speeds Up Mesa VA-API Video Acceleration For FFmpeg

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Speeds Up Mesa VA-API Video Acceleration For FFmpeg

A Microsoft engineer has landed an improvement to the Mesa Gallium3D Video Acceleration "VA" state tracker that can allow for faster video processing times and greater GPU utilization...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Mesa-Faster-VA-API

[cl333r]

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

[MorrisS.]

I begin to consider the possibility that Microsoft owns Linux.

[user1]

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

[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.

[nist]

I begin to consider the possibility that Microsoft own Linux.

Microsoft really own Ubuntu (Canonical).

[uid313]

Thank you Microsoft! ❤️

[Devorlon]

From the gitlab:

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

[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...

[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.