Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> writes: > intel-media-driver is the VAAPI driver for anything after Broadwell and > enables hardware accelerated video decoding. If you also want encoding, > then intel-media-driver-non-free is the better option. It contains some > non-free shaders/kernels that are required for encoding. > Ah, it's a Intel generation thing. My newest system is Haswell, so hope that this package will work well when backported. In particular I worry about how newer VAAPI drivers haven't been tested with LLVM 11. I guess we'll see if there are any bugs. After all, it may be that Intel's model of pairing specific versions isn't strictly required. Do you know if accelerated video encoding is used by Zoom (or any other video conference software)? Sure it's horrible proprietary software, but an intel-media-driver-non-free bpo might be useful for this work-related use case, no? 'seems like it would be particularly appreciated on laptops. > But yes, one will also require the binary blobs from the firmware > package … not only for video decoding/encoding, but also for a sensible > experience for OpenGL-based rendering. > Ack. I'm leaving this one to someone else who has newer hardware. Other than that, the upload is in progress. If intel-media-driver doesn't appear in the bpo archive in a week or two, please feel free to ping; I have to wait for its deps to be accepted before uploading it. Thanks again! Nicholas
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