The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver.

The notable change with today's NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 release is fixing the back-end for unified memory systems. The report was over the NVIDIA DGX Spark with its unified memory system not working with this VA-API driver. Interestingly enough the bug report and patch appears to have come from a NVIDIA engineer. Besides the DGX Spark, this unified memory system support should help other NVIDIA GB10-based platforms too like the Dell Pro Max GB10 .

Besides getting VA-API video acceleration atop NVDEC working for NVIDIA GB10 and similar unified memory platforms, there is also a fix around JPEG handling in NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver.

Those are the main changes with today's v0.0.17 release.