The Intel Media Driver is out with its quarterly feature release for bringing all of the latest open-source video acceleration improvements for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. Enhancing support for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs continues to be a primary focus.
On the kernel graphics side Panther Lake is ready with Linux 6.17 and the OpenGL and Vulkan driver support is now ready too. When it comes to VA-API based video acceleration via the Intel Media Driver, Panther Lake support is also being squared away.
Today’s Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 release brings Panther Lake video encoding support. Additionally, there are HDR playback stability enhancements for Panther Lake with this quarterly Intel Media Driver release.
Plus there are a few fixes for older Intel graphics platforms but finishing the bring-up of Panther Lake was the primary focus for Intel Media Driver 2025Q2. Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware back to the Broadwell days continues to be supported by this open-source VA-API driver on Linux systems.
Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 downloads and more details via GitHub.
Also out today is the oneVPL GPU Runtime 2025Q2 release too for the Intel oneAPI media stack. The VPL GPU Runtime is also now compatible with the Panther Lake video encoding support while adding support for VVC Decoding Level 6.3.
