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indianahorst

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Registered: 2008-08-23

Posts: 133

Hardware video acceleration on Kaby Lake - which driver?

Hello,

I'm on an Intel Kaby Lake system:

$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.1

The Arch Wiki states for hardware video acceleration: (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardwa … tion#Intel)

HD Graphics series starting from Broadwell (2014) and newer are supported by intel-media-driver.
GMA 4500 (2008) and newer GPUs, including HD Graphics up to Coffee Lake (2017) are supported by libva-intel-driver.

As I understand, Kaby Lake (2016) is included in both ranges of hardware generations.

Which driver is recommended,  intel-media-driver or  libva-intel-driver?

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,317

Re: Hardware video acceleration on Kaby Lake - which driver?

intel-media-driver is recommended, buy may not work with firefox.

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indianahorst

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Registered: 2008-08-23

Posts: 133

Re: Hardware video acceleration on Kaby Lake - which driver?

intel-media-driver is recommended, buy may not work with firefox.

Are you sure? The Arch Wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefo … celeration says:

As of Firefox 88 both the Intel iHD intel-media-driver and the i965 libva-intel-driver drivers both work perfectly with VA-API in Firefox

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,317

Re: Hardware video acceleration on Kaby Lake - which driver?

Good to know. I haven't checked it in my setup after FF 87. That is why I wrote may.

If you need the following, you should probably use still the old I965 driver: VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh (decoder/encoder), VAProfileH264StereoHigh (decoder/encoder), VAProfileVP9Profile0 (encoder, iHD has only decoder).

Last edited by progandy (2021-06-06 10:42:23)

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