AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests

Merged for Mesa 23.3 is support for the VirGL code to handle accelerated AV1 video decoding within guest virtual machines...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-VirGL-AV1-Decode

[tildearrow]

I never knew VA-API on virtual machine was a thing. That's really cool!

[andre30correia]

now we need dx drivers for windows guest, such thing could kill vmware and virtualbox

[tildearrow]

now we need dx drivers for windows guest, such thing could kill vmware and virtualbox

It might be possible to make DXVK run on the Windows guest with acceleration through Venus (assuming a driver is made).

[cen1]

pretty cool, another small improvement driving forward the linux ecosystem

[Quackdoc]

has anyone actually gotten this to work? I have had no such luck on my rx580

[frytaped]

It might be possible to make DXVK run on the Windows guest with acceleration through Venus (assuming a driver is made).

There's some work being done on it.