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Video Acceleration API at a glance
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Software supporting VA-API
Overview
Processes that can be accelerated with VA-API
Software architecture
Key facts & relationships
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- License
- MIT License
- Operating system
- Linux, Android, BSD, Windows 10, Windows 11
- Original author
- Intel
- Release
- 2008
- Repository
- github.com/intel/libva
- Stable release
- 2.24.1 / 8 July 2026; 47 days ago (8 July 2026)
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Overview
- Open source
- Application programming interface
- VLC media player
- GStreamer
- GPUs Graphics processing unit
- Free and open-source
- Library Library (computing)
- Direct Rendering Infrastructure
- X Window System
- Unix
- Operating systems Operating system
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- Solaris Solaris (operating system)
- Android Android (operating system)
- Framebuffer
- Video decoding Video codec
- Video encoding Video coding
- Intel
- GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) Intel GMA
- XvMC
- Microsoft Windows DirectX Video Acceleration (DxVA) API DirectX Video Acceleration
- VLD Variable-length code
- IDCT
- Motion compensation
- Deblocking Deblocking filter (video)
- MPEG-2 H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2
- MPEG-4 Part 2 (H.263) MPEG-4 Part 2
- H.263
- H.264 AVC H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
Processes that can be accelerated with VA-API
Software architecture
- DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) Direct Rendering Manager
- Compressed bit-stream Elementary stream
Software supporting VA-API
- Chromium Chromium (web browser)
- Emby
- FFmpeg
- Firefox
- Gnash Gnash (software)
- SWF
- Helix media player Helix (project)
- Jellyfin
- Kodibuntu Kodi (software)
- Libavcodec
- MPlayer
- Mpv Mpv (media player)
- MythTV
- OBS Studio
- Xine
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Video Acceleration API
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Important terminology
video va-api hardware gpu api graphics processing linux accelerated intel decode acceleration interface media rendering system software android capabilities open-source
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video Acceleration API | License | MIT License | 1.00 | infobox |
| Video Acceleration API | Operating system | Linux, Android, BSD, Windows 10, Windows 11 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Video Acceleration API | Original author | Intel | 1.00 | infobox |
| Video Acceleration API | Release | 2008 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Video Acceleration API | Repository | github.com/intel/libva | 1.00 | infobox |
| Video Acceleration API | Stable release | 2.24.1 / 8 July 2026; 47 days ago (8 July 2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Video Acceleration API | Type | API | 1.00 | infobox |
| Video Acceleration API | Website | www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi/ | 1.00 | infobox |
| Video Acceleration API | Written in | C | 1.00 | infobox |
| VLC media player or GStreamer to use hardware video acceleration capabilities | instance of | is an open source application programming interface that allows applications | 0.80 | text |
| usually provided by the graphics processing unit | instance of | is an open source application programming interface that allows applications | 0.80 | text |
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