media-driver VS MediaSDK

You might need to install the non-free intel media driver: https://github.com/intel/media-driver

Intel had VP9 decode since Kaby Lake (7th gen); original Skylake (6th gen) could not handle it (see here).

I've heard intel-media-driver was the way to go for supported hardware, but I also heard that it could decode slower than libva-intel-driver (like #925), and that Intel doesn't officially support some kind of decode feature in intel-media-driver, but it's implemented in libva-intel-driver.

I reproduced the issue on my end and opened a ticket to let intel devs know. https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1628

I can see 22.6.6 was released in December ( Releases · intel/media-driver (github.com) ), but I'm having troubles getting it installed.

You should be able to choose FFmpeg VAAPI encoder, though it is suggested that kernel 6.2 is needed for this to actually work. I can confirm that it's broken with my A770, while I can choose the device, encoder is failing. No such problem with my Rapter Lake iGPU.

On GitHub there are similar problems reported: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1282

Source: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/blob/master/docs/media_features.md

was reading datasheet for chipsets of computer CPU's and Intel Media " is mentioned several times, but this seems to be a inactive project with recommendations to move to VPL. The github says This project has been identified as having known security escapes, with the top issue being a sample_encode memory leak, on as recent as 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 since there's no fix does that mean it's just.. open to attack.. and Intel just moved on?

I looked at Intel's MediaSDK docs on GitHub but can't find anything related to AV1 encoding there: https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK/tree/master/doc