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PSA: You can now use FFmpeg's VAAPI-based VP8 and VP9 encoder on Skylake+ systems on Linux: Tested on Ubuntu 16.04LTS

Build VAAPI with support for VP8/9 decode and encode hardware acceleration on a Skylake validation testbed:

Build platform: Ubuntu 16.04LTS.

First things first:

Install baseline dependencies first

sudo apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential libass-dev libtool pkg-config texinfo zlib1g-dev libva-dev cmake mercurial libdrm-dev libvorbis-dev libogg-dev git libx11-dev libperl-dev libpciaccess-dev libpciaccess0 xorg-dev intel-gpu-tools