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(contracted; show full) to its original design for MPEG-2 [[Motion Compensation|MotionComp]] only, it made more sense to design an interface from scratch that can fully expose the video decode capabilities in today's [[Graphics processing unit|GPU]]s.<ref name="freedesktop.org">[http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi freedesktop.org - Software/vaapi, About]</ref>

===Supported hardware and drivers===
As of January 17, 2012 VA API is natively supported by :
* The free and open source drivers of 
[[Broadcom Crystal HD]] (example of a non-GPU based hardware)<ref>http://gitorious.org/crystalhd-video CrystalHD backend for VA-API (libva)</ref>
* The free and open source drivers of the integrated graphics known as "''Intel® HD Graphics''" (Intel HD Graphics 2000/2500/3000/4000) inside [[Intel Core|Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 Processor Family (Nehalem, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge microarchitecture based)]] processor family.<ref>http://intellinuxgraphics.org/h264.html Intel hardware-accel(contracted; show full){{XWinSys}}
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[[Category:Application programming interfaces]]
[[Category:Freedesktop.org]]
[[Category:Application layer protocols]]
[[Category:Video acceleration]]
[[Category:X Window extensions]]