#1 Indeed drivers are a runtime requirement but also risk being patent encumbered. It doesn't feel any different to the status of Nvidia graphics drivers so please treat it like that - recommended for optimal experience but not something we are allowed to install by default.
#2 Answered by Jeremy above. #3 gnome-remote-desktop depends on libva and libva-drm. I assume that's because hardware accelerated encoding happens in a daemon that is neither an X11 or Wayland client. Instead it needs the DRM "frontend" to access the hardware independently of any display server. #5 I am happy with the test plan because as it says "We are not testing for driver issues". It would make no sense to require any more specific Intel GPUs than "at least 5th generation and launched no more recently than 12 months ago" because it's a moving target and failure to acquire a specific generation is not a test failure. Nvidia and AMD should be ignored for testing because neither have ever had respectable Libva implementations IMHO and I expect those to be failures for their own reasons. If they work at all then it's a bonus. #7 Libva is the only performant way to do it on Intel hardware. Alternative solutions exist like using generic GPU shader code, but such approaches perform at least one order of magnitude worse than Libva because Intel QuickSync Video is a dedicated region of the silicon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2097800 Title: [MIR] libva To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libva/+bug/2097800/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
