There's a completely free distribution and one that includes closed-source kernels.

The newer VAAPI driver variant from Intel which is also used by libmfx and libvpl on Linux. OneVPL is the successors of MSDK and will support more encode and decode cases. This is a library from Intel which can be installed as part of Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library (OneVPL).

The hardware can be accessed through a number of different APIs: (Each new platform supports a superset of the capabilities of the previous platform.

VP9 profile 2 decode VP9, H.265 Main10 encode. indicates that the encoder mpeg4 is a Video encoder and supports Slice-level multithreading.'Intel Quick Sync Video' is the marketing name for a set of hardware features available inside many Intel GPUs. There is a key near the top of the output that describes each letter that precedes the name of the format, encoder, decoder, or codec: $ ffmpeg -encoders Formats (muxers and demuxers):ĭisplay options specific to, and information about, a particular muxer: ffmpeg -h muxer=matroskaĭisplay options specific to, and information about, a particular demuxer: ffmpeg -h demuxer=gifĭisplay options specific to, and information about, a particular encoder: ffmpeg -h encoder=mpeg4ĭisplay options specific to, and information about, a particular decoder: ffmpeg -h decoder=aac The formats and codecs supported by your build of ffmpeg can vary due the version, how it was compiled, and if any external libraries, such as libx264, were supported during compilation.

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