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X-Plane 11.50 Officially Released With Its Vulkan Renderer

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 21:58
X-Plane has long been Linux-friendly and one of the most realistic flight simulators available while today it's taking a big step forward with its 11.50 release and the much anticipated introduction of its new rendering engine with Vulkan support...

Raspberry Pi 4 VC4 Support Coming With Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 21:11
The big set of patches for Raspberry Pi 4 / BCM2711 display support with the VC4 DRM driver will finally be merged next month for the Linux 5.10 cycle...

Intel Working On VA-API AV1 Acceleration For FFmpeg

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 18:53
With Intel Xe LP / Tigerlake adding AV1 accelerated video decode, the Intel open-source developers are working to expose their AV1 hardware acceleration through the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for usage by the likes of FFmpeg and other multimedia software...

GRVK 0.2 Continues Advancing This AMD Mantle To Vulkan Translation Layer

Phoronix - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 18:32
While there aren't too many Windows games out there still popular and supporting AMD's Mantle graphics API that was the precursor to Vulkan, open-source developer Clément Guérin continues work on his "GRVK" initiative for mapping Mantle on top of Vulkan as a learning exercise and for allowing those still relevant Mantle-supported games to in turn run on Vulkan...

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