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Video acceleration API (VA-API) now available on Windows!

February 15, 2023 Feb 15, 2023 02/15/23

Sil Vilerino

Introduction What's VA-API? Originally developed by Intel, VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) is an open-source library and API specification, which provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities for video processing. It consists of a main library and driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware vendor. Apps ...