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#Libva-utils Project

libva-utils is a collection of utilities and examples to exercise VA-API in
accordance with the libva project. --enable-tests (default = no) provides
a suite of unit-tests based on Google Test Framework. A driver implementation
is necessary to properly operate.

VA-API is an open-source library and API specification, which
provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities
for video processing. It consists of a main library and
driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware 
vendor.

If you would like to contribute to libva, check our [Contributing
guide](https://github.com/intel/libva-utils/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).

We also recommend taking a look at the ['janitorial'
bugs](https://github.com/intel/libva-utils/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AJanitorial)
in our list of open issues as these bugs can be solved without an
extensive knowledge of libva-utils.

We would love to help you start contributing!

The libva-utils development team can be reached via our [mailing
list](https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-vaapi-media) and on IRC
in channel ##intel-media on [Freenode](https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat).

We also use [#Slack](https://slack.com) and host [VAAPI Media Slack
Team](https://intel-media.slack.com).  You can signup by submitting your email
address to our [Slack Team invite page](https://slack-join-intel-media.herokuapp.com).

Slack complements our other means of communication.  Pick the one that works
best for you!