Michael, VA encoding & decoding for Ivy Bridge have been available for around 2 months upstream.
Phoronix: Intel Rounds Out Its Ivy Bridge Graphics Driver
Intel has released the xf86-video-intel 2.16.0 DDX driver today, which offers up acceleration support for the next-generation Intel "Ivy Bridge" hardware and completes their graphics driver stack in terms of initial hardware enablement...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTc3Mw
Michael, VA encoding & decoding for Ivy Bridge have been available for around 2 months upstream.
The first and only Intel GPU capable of it will be IvyThere's also no OpenCL support for Intel Linux graphics processors![]()