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Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 19:53
Following yesterday's release of VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 in Vulkan 1.3.277 for AV1 video decoding, a Mesa merge request has already been opened for adding the VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 extension to the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver...

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 19:25
Following the release of OBS Studio 30.0 last November, OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 was released today as what will be the next feature release for this open-source software that is popular with livestreamers and other game streaming / desktop recording purposes...

Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 16:00
One of the new features for Linux 6.8 that was merged late was enabling the -Wstringop-overflow compiler option to warn about possible buffer overflows in cases where the compiler can detect such possible overflows at compile-time. While it's nice in theory, issues on GCC has led Linus Torvalds to disabling this compiler option as of now Linux 6.8...

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