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Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support for VP9 Decoding

21 hours ago
  • #Linux
  • #VP9
  • #Vulkan
  • Intel's Vulkan Linux driver now supports VP9 video decoding via the VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 extension.
  • The support was merged into Mesa 25.2 for the Intel ANV driver.
  • Hyunjun Ko of Igalia implemented the VP9 Vulkan-based video decoding for Intel's Linux driver.
  • The implementation passes all Vulkan Conformance Test Suite (CTS) cases for VP9 decoding, except for two tests.