source: x/installing/intel-media-driver.xml@ 308cbf9

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY intel-media-driver-version                "23.1.2">

  <!ENTITY intel-media-driver-download-http "https://github.com/intel/media-driver/archive/refs/tags/intel-media-&intel-media-driver-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY intel-media-driver-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY intel-media-driver-md5sum        "b0c480cbab8b37c4e14698d29e6cb2f2">
  <!ENTITY intel-media-driver-size          "27 MB">
  <!ENTITY intel-media-driver-buildsize     "2.4 GB (361 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY intel-media-driver-time          "9.5 SBU (with parallelism=4)">

]>

  <sect2 id="intel-media-driver" xreflabel="intel-media-driver-&intel-media-driver-version;">

    <sect2info>
      <date>$Date$</date>
    </sect2info>

    <title>intel-media-driver-&intel-media-driver-version;</title>

    <indexterm zone="intel-media-driver">
      <primary sortas="a-intel-media-driver">intel-media-driver</primary>
    </indexterm>

    <sect3 role="package">
      <title>Introduction to intel-media-driver</title>

      <para>
        The <application>intel-media-driver</application> package provides a
        VA API driver for Intel GPUs that are provided with Broadwell CPUs and
        higher. This includes support for a variety of codecs.
      </para>

      &lfs113_checked;

      <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Package Information</bridgehead>
      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&intel-media-driver-download-http;"/>
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Download (FTP): <ulink url="&intel-media-driver-download-ftp;"/>
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Download MD5 sum: &intel-media-driver-md5sum;
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Download size: &intel-media-driver-size;
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Estimated disk space required: &intel-media-driver-buildsize;
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Estimated build time: &intel-media-driver-time;
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>

      <note>
        <para>
          The tarball <filename>intel-media-&intel-media-driver-version;.tar.gz</filename>
          will extract to the directory
          <filename class="directory">media-driver-intel-media-&intel-media-driver-version;</filename>.
        </para>
      </note>

      <bridgehead renderas="sect4">intel-media-driver Dependencies</bridgehead>

      <bridgehead renderas="sect5">Required</bridgehead>
      <para role="required">
        <xref linkend="cmake"/> and
        <xref linkend="libva"/>
      </para>

      <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
        User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/intel-media-driver"/>
      </para>
    </sect3>

    <sect3 role="installation">
      <title>Installation of intel-media-driver</title>

      <note>
        <para>
          This package takes a long time to build because it compiles code
          specific to each individual generation of Intel GPUs and for a
          variety of media codecs.
        </para>
      </note>

      <para>
        Install <application>intel-media-driver</application> by running the
        following commands:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr   \
      -DINSTALL_DRIVER_SYSCONF=OFF  \
      -DBUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -Wno-dev ..                   &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

      <para>
        This package does not come with a test suite.
      </para>

      <para>
        Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 role="content">
      <title>Contents</title>

      <segmentedlist>
        <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
        <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
        <segtitle>Installed Drivers</segtitle>
        <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

        <seglistitem>
          <seg>
            None
          </seg>
          <seg>
            libigfxcmrt.so
          </seg>
          <seg>
            iHD_drv_video.so
          </seg>
          <seg>
            /usr/include/igfxcmrt
          </seg>
        </seglistitem>
      </segmentedlist>

      <variablelist>
        <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
        <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
        <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

        <varlistentry id="libigfxcmrt">
          <term><filename class="libraryfile">libigfxcmrt.so</filename></term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              provides API functions which allow running GPU kernels on the
              render engine
            </para>
            <indexterm zone="intel-media-driver libigfxcmrt">
              <primary sortas="c-libigfxcmrt">libigfxcmrt.so</primary>
            </indexterm>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

      </variablelist>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>