Intel Media Driver 2026Q1 Continues Nova Lake S Enablement

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Intel today published their official quarterly feature release to their open-source Media Driver providing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support on Linux.

Most notable with the Intel Media Driver 2026Q1 is Nova Lake S enablement work. The accelerated VP9 and JPEG encode are now in place and ready to go for NVL-S as part of the broader Nova Lake enablement going on throughout the Linux landscape for these next-generation Intel processors.

The Intel Media Driver update also brings fixes for HEVC decode, AV1 decode, VP9 decode, and media decode fixes in general. This open-source Intel Media Driver continues to support Intel integrated graphics back to Broadwell CPUs while supporting through latest Battlemage dGPUs and next-gen Nova Lake iGPUs.

Downloads and all the details on this quarterly Intel VA-API driver update via GitHub.

Also released today is Intel oneVPL 26.1.5 as their associated VPL GPU Runtime release for their media stack. There is better robustness in the AV1 decode path and various other fixes to this runtime.

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