The Intel Media Driver 2025Q3 release is available today as the quarterly update to this open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver used by Intel hardware under Linux for video encode/decode.
While the Intel graphics drivers on Windows remain focused on the very latest products, the Intel Media Driver on Linux continues supporting back to Broadwell era processors with this unified Media Driver for VA-API support. Broadwell and newer remain supported by the Intel Media Driver up through the Battlemage discrete graphics and then the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Panther Lake.
Ironing out the Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” support was the main focus of the Intel Media Driver 2025Q3 revision. There is a Panther Lake fix for AV1 encoding around bitstream corruption as well as a separate fix to address a possible AV1 encoding hang for Panther Lake.
Aside from fixing up the Panther Lake support ahead of release, the Intel Media Driver 2025Q3 release is a pretty minor update. The new Intel VA-API driver can be downloaded from GitHub.
