[Mesa-dev] intel skylake gpu support

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

On 16.02.2016 09:24, Jarkko Korpi wrote:
> Then the other question. My cpu is skylake 6600k which has powersaving
> on that it drops its speed when not doing much. It can drop cores at
> 800mhz. Most of youtube videos if not all are in vp9 format, that's the
> info I get when i look at the video stats. But I get lots of dropped
> frames even with low resolution clips. Is this connection issue or
> driver issue or cpu not using enough speed?
>
> Does intel driver somehow have hardware encode/decode for vp9?

Video HW acceleration isn't handled by Mesa, but by VAAPI.

Do you have new enough Media drivers:
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2015q3-intel-graphics-stack-release-0
?


	- Eero