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Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 + HMFT Within Mesa 26.2

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 July 2026

The newest, unexpected addition to the Mesa codebase by Microsoft engineers is contributed accelerated AV1 video encoding on the GPU using a combination of DirectX 12 and the Hardware Media Foundation Transform (HMFT) support that is part of the Windows Media Foundation layer...