[Libva] [ANNOUNCE] libva/libva-intel-driver 1.6.0.pre1

[Xiang, Haihao]

Sorry, it is for 1.6.0.pre1

> Hi all,
> 
> We are planning for libva/libva-intel-driver 1.6.0,
> libva/libva-intel-driver 1.6.0 will bring some new features and fix some
> critical issues. Below are the testing packages
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/testing/libva/libva-1.6.0.pre1.tar.bz2
> 
> * Bump VA API version to 0.38
> * Add support for HEVC encode API
> * Add support for VP9 decode API
> * Add API (vaSetDriverName()) to allow the user to specify the loaded
> backend driver
> * Add VAConfigAttribEncSkipFrame and corresponding structures to support
>   sending skip frame parameters to the backend driver.
> * Add support for querying slice decoding mode supported by the backend
> driver
> * Fix quality issue in the JPEG encode demo
> 
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/testing/libva-intel-driver/libva-intel-driver-1.6.0.pre1.tar.bz2
> 
> * Add support for VP8 encoding (CQP, CBR) on BSW/SKL
> * Add support for HEVC decoding on BSW
> * Add support for HEVC encoding (CQP) on SKL
> * Add support for low-power mode (VA_PROC_PIPELINE_FAST) in VPP to
> discard any complex operation that would consume too many HW resources
> * Fix memory leak issue for JPEG decoding
> * Fix HEVC decoding issue on BSW/SKL
> * Fix GPU hang issue caused by VP8 decoding on BDW/BSW
> * Fix MADI/MCDI issues on SNB/IVB
> * Improve the JPEG encoding quality
> * Optimize MPEG-2 start code search on IVB
> 
> Please report any critical issue with the above packages
> 
> Thanks
> Haihao