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blog: 2026-08-26: fix libva wrapper history lesson
sofus forked megi's wrapper, which is actually not a direct fork of Bootlin's effort. Signed-off-by: James Calligeros <jcalligeros99@gmail.com>
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its adoption by both AMD and Intel for their video acceleration hardware. To prevent V4L2 Stateless
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hardware from being unusable with such software, Bootlin authored a VA-API to V4L2 Stateless
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translation layer. Sadly this has been abandoned for quite some time and no longer builds without
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patches, however sofus has forked it and gotten it into a working state for AVD. With this
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translation layer installed and an environment variable set for the login session, software
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implementing VA-API support is now able to use AVD to accelerate video decoding! This does not
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yet ship by default in Fedora Asahi Remix, and will not work with Firefox's video decoding sandbox,
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however we hope to have something shippable soon.
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patches. A [more recent effort by megi](https://xff.cz/git/libva-v4l2_request/) however does, which
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sofus has forked it and gotten it into a working state for AVD. With this translation layer installed and an environment variable set
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for the login session, software implementing VA-API support is now able to use AVD to accelerate
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video decoding! This does not yet ship by default in Fedora Asahi Remix, and will not work with
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Firefox's video decoding sandbox, however we hope to have something shippable soon.
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## The road to direct scanout
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The traditional benefit of hardware-accelerated video decoding has been the reduction in CPU

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