libva ☆

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Description:
Hardware accelerated video processing library

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 2.22.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 22, 2025

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Stars: 736 | Forks: 309 | Language: C | Category: Multimedia

Tags: video multimedia hardware-acceleration intel encoding decoding

Install: brew install libva

About:
libva is an open-source library providing an API for hardware-accelerated video processing. It acts as a middleware, enabling applications to access the full power of GPU-based encoding and decoding capabilities on Intel hardware. This significantly reduces CPU load during demanding video tasks like playback, transcoding, and streaming.

Key Features:

Hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding
Vendor-neutral API for video processing
Support for advanced features like 10-bit color and HDR
Integration with VA-API for Intel GPUs

Use Cases:

Accelerating video playback in media players
High-performance video transcoding for servers
Real-time video processing in conferencing applications

Alternatives:

Vulkan Video – A newer, lower-level API that offers more control but requires more complex implementation compared to libva's higher-level abstraction.
NVIDIA NVDEC/NVENC – Proprietary NVIDIA SDK offering similar hardware acceleration, but is vendor-locked to NVIDIA GPUs.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 22, 2025 11:14am	2.22.0	0	VERSION_BUMP	0a31be8d
Oct 27, 2024 12:49pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	c7477b9a