Open Source Media Framework - libva and libva-intel-driver Release 1.4

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Libva and libva-intel-driver Release 1.4.1
(24-Oct-2014)

Libva 1.4.1 is now available at
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva/

This version brings the following changes:

  • Add support for DRM Render-Nodes (Andrey Larionov)
  • Update API DOCs

libva-intel-driver-1.4.1 is now available at
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva-intel-driver/

This release brings the following change:

  • Use a new method to detect encoding capability on Haswell

Libva and libva-intel-driver Release 1.4.0
(29-Sep-2014)

Libva 1.4.0 is now available at
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva/

The version of VA API is bumped to 0.36.0

This version brings the following changes:

  • API: add support for VP8 encoding
  • API: add H.264 MVC profiles for decoding and encoding
  • API: add buffer export interfaces for interop with 3rdparty APIs (EGL, OCL)
  • API: add suppor for encoder quality level
  • API: add attribute usage hint flag
  • Fix build on 64-bit versions of Android* (Qiming Shi)
  • Assorted fixes to the VA fool and trace modules (Austin Yuan)

libva-intel-driver-1.4.0 is now available at
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva-intel-driver/

This release requires libva-1.4.0 (VA API 0.36). The new version of libva-intel-driver brings the following changes:

  • Add support for exporting VA buffer
  • Add support for MVC decoding/encoding
  • Add support for encoding quality level on Sandy Bridge and newer
  • Add support of inserting packed slice header & raw data for encoding
  • Add support for Cherryview
  • Fix the GPU hang issue on Ivy Bridge when using the gstreamer and mplayer to play back one H264 clip
    • (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80720)
  • Fix the GPU hang issue on Sandy Bridge and newer when playing back one H264 clip
    • (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76363)
  • Fix the GPU hang issue on Haswell when using XBMC to play back one H264 clip
    • (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81447)


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Open Source Media Framework