As spotted by VideoCardz , Intel added BMG — the shortcut for Battlemage — to its latest round of drivers on GitHub . This covers an addition to the open source media driver for the video acceleration API VAAPI, which includes various codecs for video decoding and encoding. The column labeled as BMG looks pretty bare, though, with zero encoding support so far. The lack of encoding isn’t a problem, as it’s still early days. Although initial leaks pointed to a late 2024
