Bug 926797

Summary:	media-libs/intel-mediasdk: removal
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sam James <sam>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Media-video project <media-video>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	andrewammerlaan, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sam James archtester

2024-03-12 05:59:23 UTC

The upstream repo at https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK is archived ("This repository has been archived by the owner on May 17, 2023.")

Further, https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK/commit/7a72de33a15d6e7cdb842b12b901a003f7154f0a says:

"This project has been identified as having known security escapes."

Comment 1 Andrew Ammerlaan gentoo-dev

2024-03-12 06:13:29 UTC

It is required for Quick Sync Video on Intel iGPUs Broadwell and older. Dropping this package effectively is a perfomance hit for video decode and encode on those devices. Additionally, ffmpeg-4 does not support VPL as the QSV library, this was introduced in ffmpeg-5.

I think we should keep it around a bit longer.

Comment 2 Andrew Ammerlaan gentoo-dev

2024-03-12 08:10:31 UTC

> It is required for Quick Sync Video on Intel iGPUs Broadwell and older.

I got the codenames confused, what I meant is Broadwell to Tiger lake, not Broadwell and older. See [1]

[1] https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK?tab=readme-ov-file#media-sdk-support-matrix