libva-2.22.0

Introduction to libva

The libva package contains a library which provides access to hardware accelerated video processing, using hardware to accelerate video processing in order to offload the central processing unit (CPU) to decode and encode compressed digital video. The VA API video decode/encode interface is platform and window system independent targeted at Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in the X Window System however it can potentially also be used with direct framebuffer and graphics sub-systems for video output. Accelerated processing includes support for video decoding, video encoding, subpicture blending, and rendering.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://github.com/intel/libva/archive/2.22.0/libva-2.22.0.tar.gz

  • Download SHA256 Sum: 467c418c2640a178c6baad5be2e00d569842123763b80507721ab87eb7af8735

  • Download MD5 sum: 8dba13313d724b5e930f06e65b7437e2

  • Download size: 1,526.9 KB

  • Estimated disk space required: 2,659.2 KB

  • Estimated build time: less than 0.5 SBU

libva Dependencies

Required

libdrm-2.4.129

Recommended

Recommended (Runtime)

The VA API driver suitable for the hardware in your system: intel-vaapi-driver-2.4.1 (for Intel GPUs provided with Haswell CPUs or earlier), 'intel-media-driver' (for Intel GPUs provided with Broadwell CPUs or later), and "mesa" (providing the r600, radeonsi, and nouveau VA API drivers, for the ATI/AMD Radeon HD 2xxx GPUs and later, and supported NVIDIA GPUs; there is a circular dependency, read the Mesa page for information on how to break it)

Optional

"doxygen", Wayland-1.24.0, and intel-gpu-tools

Installation of libva

Prepare libva by running the following commands:

meson setup zbuild --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release
ninja -C zbuild

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now Install, as the root user:

ninja -C zbuild install

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libva-drm.so, libva-glx.so, libva.so, libva-wayland.so, and libva-x11.so
Installed Directory: /usr/include/va

Short Descriptions

libva.so

contains API functions which provide access to hardware accelerated video processing