Intel VA-API Driver Gets Improved De-Interlacing

Linux video expert Gwenole Beauchesne has landed some Video Acceleration API (VA-API) improvements for the open-source Intel driver.

Gwenole Beauchesne was working on VEBOX related code, which with Haswell and newer is a new hardware-basd video post processing engine. The Intel VA-API driver update drops support for old code and adds support for advanced deinterlacing.

From the commit improving the Intel VA-API de-interlacing, "Reintegrate Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing (MADI) and Motion Compensated Deinterlacing (MCDI) support. This is totally reworked so that to allow for bob-deinterlacing if no previous frame was supplied, improve global robustness, and ensure that the right surface storage are used, which is the most important fix."

On top of that were other vebox changes that landed in the intel-vaapi-driver today.