Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API

Libva 2.20 was released today as the newest update to this common Video Acceleration API (VA-API) library that sits in front of the various hardware-specific VA-API driver implementations...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/libva-2.20

[Sethox]

Am I wrong to believe Libva is overshadowed by Vulkan Video?

I only hope both project benefits from existing..

[Gusar]

Am I wrong to believe Libva is overshadowed by Vulkan Video?

The current state of Vulkan video is far, FAR from ideal. It'll take months at least, possibly even more, to get all the kinks out of the software and especially out of the drivers. And then there's browsers, Google has no interest in Vulkan video, so that what 80% of the browser space right there that won't see Vulkan video for years.

[Vistaus]

The current state of Vulkan video is far, FAR from ideal. It'll take months at least, possibly even more, to get all the kinks out of the software and especially out of the drivers. And then there's browsers, Google has no interest in Vulkan video, so that what 80% of the browser space right there that won't see Vulkan video for years.

Come again? You can enable Vulkan video in Chrome and all other Blink-based or QtWebEngine browsers just fine. It's just hidden behind a switch, but it is there and works quite fine if your hardware is supported.

[andre30correia]

Come again? You can enable Vulkan video in Chrome and all other Blink-based or QtWebEngine browsers just fine. It's just hidden behind a switch, but it is there and works quite fine if your hardware is supported.

not so well even with new systems, sometimes crash, but google dont cares about vaapi or vdpau

[ms178]

Am I wrong or wasn't libva 2.20 actually released three weeks ago? While the Github release page only was updated today, Arch already carries this release for three weeks.

[Gusar]

Come again? You can enable Vulkan video in Chrome and all other Blink-based or QtWebEngine browsers just fine. It's just hidden behind a switch, but it is there and works quite fine if your hardware is supported.

That's Vulkan rendering, not Vulkan video decode.

[Quackdoc]

Come again? You can enable Vulkan video in Chrome and all other Blink-based or QtWebEngine browsers just fine. It's just hidden behind a switch, but it is there and works quite fine if your hardware is supported.

whats the switch?

[Vistaus]

That's Vulkan rendering, not Vulkan video decode.

Wrong. There's a switch for Vulkan rendering, but also for video decode.

[Quackdoc]

Wrong. There's a switch for Vulkan rendering, but also for video decode.

ow do you enable it