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| Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support | Intel | 2024-04-22 |
| Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 Brings VP9 Fix & AV1 Refinements | Intel | 2024-04-19 |
| FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI | Multimedia | 2024-04-05 |
| Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues | Radeon | 2024-03-04 |
| Linux's V4L2 VP9 Codec Kernel Code Rewritten In Rust For Better Memory Safety | Multimedia | 2024-02-27 |
| FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode | Multimedia | 2023-11-11 |
| Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox | Mozilla | 2023-11-01 |
| Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support | Google | 2023-10-29 |
| Intel Video Acceleration Drivers Begin Preparing For Arrow Lake S | Intel | 2023-10-24 |
| KWin Replaces KScreen For Handling Monitor Arrangement Under KDE Plasma Wayland | KDE | 2023-10-07 |
| VP8/VP9's libvpx 1.13.1 Released Due To A High Severity Vulnerability | Multimedia | 2023-09-30 |
| Intel Media Driver 2023Q2 Preps More For Meteor Lake, More Arc Graphics Fixes | Intel | 2023-08-02 |
| Qualcomm Rolling Out "Iris" Video Encoder/Decoder Driver For Linux | Hardware | 2023-07-31 |
| AMD Expands Mesa Virgl Video Acceleration For Using On Xen | Mesa | 2023-07-19 |
| Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q1 Brings Improved Multi-GPU Video Acceleration Support | Intel | 2023-05-01 |
| Intel Media Driver 2023Q1 Adds Meteor Lake AV1 Error-Resilient Video Encoding | Intel | 2023-04-10 |
| VVenC 1.8 Released For Speeding Up Open-Source H.266/VVC Encoding | Multimedia | 2023-04-06 |
| VP9/AV1 Simulcast Support For WebRTC Coming In Chrome 113 | Multimedia | 2023-03-30 |
| Mesa 23.0.1 Released With Many Fixes For Intel / AMD / Zink | Mesa | 2023-03-26 |
| Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Decoding For VP9 | Mesa | 2023-03-13 |
| FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements | Multimedia | 2023-02-28 |
| libvpx VP8/VP9 1.13 Released With Yet More AVX2 & Arm Neon Optimizations | Google | 2023-02-14 |
| The Current State Of GCC 13's Rust Language Front-End | GNU | 2023-02-13 |
| Open-Source Software Encode/Decode For H.266/VVC Progressing | Multimedia | 2023-02-11 |
| FFmpeg Is Ripe For More AVX-512 Optimizations | Multimedia | 2023-02-11 |
| Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Is Shaping Up Nicely | Red Hat | 2023-02-10 |
| A Call For More Collaboration & Harmony Among BSD Hardware Drivers | BSD | 2023-02-09 |
| The Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust | Programming | 2023-02-08 |
| Initial Intel Vulkan Video Support Lands In Mesa 23.1 | Intel | 2023-02-08 |
| Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems | Apple | 2023-02-07 |
| Mesa 23.1 RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video Decoding For H.264/H.265 | Radeon | 2023-02-07 |
| A Non-GNU Linux Distribution Built With LLVM & BSD Software Aims For Alpha Next Month | Operating Systems | 2023-02-06 |
| Vulkan SDK Updated With Vulkan Video Support | Vulkan | 2023-01-30 |
| Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 22.6.5 Brings AV1 & VP9 Encode Improvements | Intel | 2023-01-26 |
| VK_MESA_video_decode_av1: Early Vulkan AV1 Decoding For Open-Source Radeon Driver | Mesa | 2023-01-17 |
| Intel Media Driver 2022Q4 Adds Meteor Lake Enablement | Intel | 2023-01-13 |
| VP9 & AV1 Vulkan Video Extensions Expected Next Year | Vulkan | 2022-12-22 |
| Vulkan Video 1.0 Extensions Published As Part Of Vulkan 1.3.238 | Vulkan | 2022-12-19 |
| Linux 6.2 Will Help With Power Savings For Intel Alder Lake N & Raptor Lake P | Intel | 2022-12-15 |
| Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Gets H.264 & H.265 Decode Working | Mesa | 2022-12-15 |
| Intel Publishes New Media Driver, oneVPL GPU Runtime "2022Q3" Releases | Intel | 2022-10-14 |
| NVIDIA Beta Driver Update Revises Vulkan Video Support | NVIDIA | 2022-09-28 |
| Linux's Hantro VPU Media Driver Looks To Be Promoted Out Of Staging | Multimedia | 2022-07-20 |
| Rockchip RkVDEC Linux Driver Being Prepared For HEVC/H.265 Support | Multimedia | 2022-07-14 |
| Intel Media Driver Adding Vulkan Video Acceleration Support | Intel | 2022-05-29 |
| MediaTek Vcodec Driver Adds Stateless VP8/VP9 Support In Linux 5.19 | Multimedia | 2022-05-27 |
| NVIDIA VA-API 0.0.6 Driver Works On Multi-Threaded Decode, Improved GPU Selection | NVIDIA | 2022-05-25 |
| VP9 Encoder & Other Media Functionality Of Tesla's FSD Chip To Be Upstreamed In Linux | Hardware | 2022-05-17 |
| AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New "VCN 4.0" IP Block | Radeon | 2022-05-02 |
| Intel Media SDK 22.3.1 Released With Raptor Lake Support, More DG2/Alchemist Features | Intel | 2022-04-02 |
| VDPAU 1.5 Video Decode Library Released With AV1 Support | NVIDIA | 2022-03-07 |
| NVIDIA VAAPI Driver 0.0.5 Released With AV1 Acceleration | NVIDIA | 2022-02-12 |
| GStreamer 1.20 Multimedia Framework Released With Many Improvements | GNOME | 2022-02-04 |
| GStreamer 1.20 RC1 Released With Many Exciting Improvements | Multimedia | 2022-01-28 |
| Linux 5.17 To Bring AMD P-State, Many AMD & Intel Improvements, New Optimizations | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-08 |
| Experimental VA-API Implemented Over NVIDIA's NVDEC - Allows Firefox Video Acceleration | NVIDIA | 2022-01-04 |
| Hantro Media Driver Adds VP9 Acceleration With Linux 5.17 | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-02 |
| NVIDIA 470.62.12 Vulkan Beta Driver For Linux Updates Video Support | NVIDIA | 2021-11-17 |
| Vulkan Video Support Progressing For Open-Source Intel, AMD Radeon Hardware | Vulkan | 2021-11-15 |
| David Airlie Hacking On Intel Vulkan Video Decode, Crocus Gallium3D VA-API | Intel | 2021-11-12 |
| Vulkan 1.2.196 Introduces H.265 Encode Extension | Vulkan | 2021-10-13 |
| Vulkan Video Decoding Still In The Early Stages For Open-Source | Vulkan | 2021-09-21 |
| New/Updated Benchmarks For June From GravityMark To L4D2 Vulkan, Updated Neural Networks | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-07-03 |
| Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode | Vulkan | 2021-04-13 |
| Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions | Vulkan | 2021-04-13 |
| FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding | Multimedia | 2021-04-09 |
| Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-03-28 |
| Intel Alder Lake P Media Driver Support Published | Intel | 2021-03-14 |
| Chrome 90 Beta Released With New Origin Trials, AV1 Encode | Google | 2021-03-12 |
| Void Linux Has Been Working To Deliver Great POWER Support | Operating Systems | 2021-02-27 |
| Ampere Making Progress On Open-Source Firmware For Their CPUs/Platform | Free Software | 2021-02-24 |
| The State Of ROCm For HPC In Early 2021 With CUDA Porting Via HIP, Rewriting With OpenMP | AMD | 2021-02-21 |
| Alder Lake S Support Added To Intel's Open-Source Media Driver | Intel | 2021-01-25 |
| Intel Media SDK 20.5.1 Released | Intel | 2020-12-30 |
| Allwinner "Cedrus" Media Driver Finally Sees Support For VP8 Decode | Multimedia | 2020-12-14 |
| AMD Adds Secure Video Playback To Their Open-Source Linux Driver | Radeon | 2020-11-04 |
| FFmpeg Lands VA-API AV1 Decode Support Led By Intel | Multimedia | 2020-11-04 |
| Linux 5.10 Media Changes Bring A New "Vidtv" Virtual Driver | Multimedia | 2020-10-14 |
| Intel Media SDK 20.3 Released With AV1 Decode, Rocket Lake + DG1/SG1 Support | Intel | 2020-10-10 |
| FFmpeg Now Supports VP9 Profile 2 VDPAU Decode (10-bit / 12-bit) | Multimedia | 2020-10-09 |
| NVIDIA 455.28 Released As Stable Linux Driver For RTX 3080/3090 | NVIDIA | 2020-10-07 |
| Intel Media Driver 2020.3 Released With Gen12 AV1 Decode, Other Improvements | Intel | 2020-09-30 |
| Krita 4.4 Beta Released With Multi-Threading For Fill Layers | KDE | 2020-09-22 |
| NVIDIA 455.23.04 Linux Beta Released With GeForce RTX 3080/3090 Support | NVIDIA | 2020-09-17 |
| Intel's Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Sees First Release Of 2020 | Intel | 2020-08-04 |
| FFmpeg 4.3 Released With AMD AMF Encoding, Vulkan Support, AV1 Encode | Multimedia | 2020-06-16 |
| Intel's High-Performance VP9 Encoder Sees Its Second Release | Intel | 2020-05-04 |
| Intel Media Linux Driver Q1-2020 Released With Tiger Lake Features, Better VP9 Encode | Intel | 2020-04-09 |
| Linux 5.7 Media Updates Add H.264 / H.265 / VP9 Decode To The Meson Driver | Multimedia | 2020-03-31 |
| Firefox 76 Enabling VA-API Wayland Acceleration For All Video Codecs | Mozilla | 2020-03-19 |
| FFmpeg Squaring Away Vulkan Support For Its Next Release | Vulkan | 2020-03-13 |
| Intel Adds VA-API Acceleration For HEVC REXT To FFmpeg | Intel | 2020-02-25 |
| Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics To Support 12-Bit HEVC/VP9 Decode | Intel | 2020-02-20 |
| GNOME 3.34.4 Released With Many Bug Fixes | GNOME | 2020-02-19 |
| Zink In Mesa For OpenGL Over Vulkan Should Be Back To Supporting OpenGL 3.0 Soon | Mesa | 2020-02-08 |
| Learn More About Systemd-Homed For How Linux Home Directories Are Being Reinvented | systemd | 2020-02-07 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter See Big Last Minute Improvements With The GNOME 3.36 Beta | GNOME | 2020-02-06 |
| The Current State of AMD Zen Coreboot Support: Basically Limited To Chromebooks | AMD | 2020-02-03 |
| Intel's Linux Graphics Stack Is Close To Landing A Code-Generator Generator | Intel | 2020-02-03 |
| Hikari Is A FreeBSD-Focused X11 Window Manager + Wayland Compositor | BSD | 2020-02-03 |
| Intel At CES 2020 Talks Up One Of Their Open-Source Projects, Shows Off Tiger Lake | Intel | 2020-01-06 |
| Clear Linux Saw New Features, New Desktop Installer + Increased Adoption In 2019 | Clear Linux | 2020-01-01 |
| Clear Linux Defined Linux Performance These Past Few Years | Clear Linux | 2019-12-29 |
| A Look At How Some Video Encoders Saw Their Performance Shift This Year With SVT AV1/VP9 Ascending | Multimedia | 2019-12-25 |
| Sailfish OS Nuuksio Adds VP9 + HEVC Hardware Video Decode, Android App Fixes | Operating Systems | 2019-12-21 |
| NVIDIA 440.31 Linux Driver Adds HDMI 2.1 VRR Support, VP9 Decode, DXVK Fixes | NVIDIA | 2019-11-04 |
| Radeon Open-Source Linux Graphics Have A Wild Day For Mesa 19.3 From 8K Decode To ACO | Radeon | 2019-10-30 |
| FFmpeg Can Now Make Use Of VDPAU VP9 Video Decoding | Multimedia | 2019-10-26 |
| Cascade Lake vs. Rome With MrBayes, dav1d 0.5, OSPray, SVT-VP9, OIDn + Other Benchmarks | Hardware | 2019-10-18 |
| NVIDIA 440.26 Beta Linux Driver Brings HDMI 2.1 VRR, VP9 VDPAU Decode + Much More | NVIDIA | 2019-10-17 |
| Intel SVT-VP9 Finally Makes Its First Pre-Release For Speedy VP9 Encoding | Intel | 2019-10-10 |
| Steam, Open-Source Intel & Ryzen 3000 / EPYC's Continued Domination Rocked September | Phoronix | 2019-10-01 |
| Fresh Video Encode/Decode Benchmark Numbers For Xeon Platinum 8280 vs. EPYC 7742 | Multimedia | 2019-09-28 |
| Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Video Encoder Performance On The Core i9 9900K | Clear Linux | 2019-09-20 |
| Intel's H.265 Encoder SVT-HEVC 1.4.1 Released With Optimizations & More | Intel | 2019-09-13 |
| The Intel SVT-VP9 Performance Boost Across 10 Intel/AMD Systems | Intel | 2019-09-10 |
| Vega-Based Renoir APU Has The Same VCN Video Encode/Decode Block As Navi | Radeon | 2019-09-09 |
| Intel's Open-Source VP9 Video Encoder Just Scored A Massive ~3x Performance Boost | Intel | 2019-09-08 |
| VDPAU Library 1.3 Switches To Meson Build System, Adds VP9 Video Format Definitions | NVIDIA | 2019-08-29 |
| Blender 2.81 To Feature Intel Open Image Denoise & Eevee Renderer Improvements | Free Software | 2019-08-21 |
| Vulkan Video Decoding Coming In H1'2020, Ray-Tracing Progressing | Standards | 2019-08-13 |
| Linux 5.3 Media Driver Updates Bring New Amlogic Meson Video Decoder | Multimedia | 2019-07-10 |
| Intel SVT-AV1 0.6 Released With AV1 Decoding, SIMD Optimizations | Intel | 2019-07-03 |
| RadeonSI Getting Fixed Up To Expose 10-bit VP9 Decode | Radeon | 2019-06-28 |
| Amlogic Video Decode Driver Revised A Ninth Time In Pursuit Of The Linux Kernel | Multimedia | 2019-06-07 |
| Intel's Open-Source SVT-AV1 Video Encoder Ends May With Another Performance Boost | Intel | 2019-05-30 |
| Intel's SVT-AV1 Video Encoder Saw Yet Another Performance Boost In April | Multimedia | 2019-05-03 |
| The Rapid Progress Of The AV1 Video Format Over The Past Year | Mozilla | 2019-04-16 |
| Intel To Work On AV1 Decoding Support, FFmpeg / GStreamer Plugins | Intel | 2019-04-09 |
| Intel Finally Announces SVT-AV1, To Be Used By Netflix | Intel | 2019-04-08 |
| Maximizing HEVC/VP9/AV1 Video Encoding On Intel Xeon Cascade Lake With SVT + Clear Linux | Intel | 2019-04-06 |
| Additional Xeon Platinum 8280 Cascade Lake Benchmarks - See How Your Linux System Runs | Intel | 2019-04-02 |
| SVT-AV1 Can Now Achieve 1080p @ 60 FPS AV1 Video Encoding On Select Configurations | Intel | 2019-03-20 |
| SVT-AV1 Performance Continues Speeding Ahead, Xeon/EPYC Video Encode Benchmarks | Multimedia | 2019-03-11 |
| DAV1D v0.2 AV1 Video Decoder Released With SSSE3 & NEON Optimizations | Multimedia | 2019-03-04 |
| 27 CPUs Benchmarked With AOM AV1, Intel SVT VP9/AV1/HEVC Video Encoders | Multimedia | 2019-03-04 |
| AV1 Image File Format v1.0 Finalized | Standards | 2019-02-28 |
| Mesa 18.3.4 Brings VA-API VP9 Improvements, More Coffeelake/Icelake IDs For Intel | Mesa | 2019-02-18 |
| SVT-VP9 Is Intel's Latest Open-Source Video Encoder Yielding High Performance VP9 | Intel | 2019-02-17 |
| Intel To Have Their New Icelake Media Driver Ready For Pairing Nicely With Linux 5.1+ | Intel | 2019-02-05 |
| Libvpx 1.8 Released With VP9 Encode Performance Improvements | Google | 2019-02-04 |
| Using LLVM Clang To Compile The Linux Kernel Is Heating Up Again Thanks To Google | LLVM | 2019-02-04 |
| NetBSD 9.0 Will Have Performance & Security Improvements | BSD | 2019-02-04 |
| GStreamer 1.15.1 Released With Work On AV1, V4L HEVC Encode/Decode | Multimedia | 2019-01-19 |
| Experimental Rockchip Video Codec Linux Driver Posted | Hardware | 2019-01-05 |
| Linux 4.20, Debian, Intel, x32, Microsft's Actions & STIBP Topics Rounded Out 2018 | Phoronix | 2019-01-01 |
| Microsoft Had Another Year Of Big Open-Source Surprises | Microsoft | 2018-12-25 |
| Faster VP9 Multi-Threaded Video Decoding Patch Lands In Libvpx | Google | 2018-12-21 |
| Intel Details Gen11 Graphics & Sunny Cove For Icelake | Intel | 2018-12-12 |
| NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 9.0 Bringing Big Improvements For Turing GPUs | NVIDIA | 2018-12-04 |
