libva: LibVA (Video Acceleration API for Linux) libva: libva: Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library and API specification libva: which enables and provides access to graphics hardware (GPU) libva: acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating libva: systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video libva: encoding, subpicture blending and rendering. The specification was libva: originally designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) libva: series of GPU hardware, the API is however not limited to GPUs or libva: Intel specific hardware, as other hardware and manufacturers can libva: also freely use this API for hardware accelerated video decoding. libva: libva: Packaged by Georgi D. Sotirov