--- title: Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support,... description: Intel has released the Media Driver 2025Q4 and VPL GPU Runtime 2025Q4. Key highlights include upstreamed Nova Lake S support for video decoding and processing,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/intel-media-driver-update-brings-nova-lake-s-support-av1-improvements-vki9nawbc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements | daily.dev og:description: Intel has released the Media Driver 2025Q4 and VPL GPU Runtime 2025Q4. Key highlights include upstreamed Nova Lake S support for video decoding and processing,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/intel-media-driver-update-brings-nova-lake-s-support-av1-improvements-vki9nawbc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vKI9NawBC.png og:image:alt: Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Intel Media Driver Update Brings Nova Lake S Support, AV1 Improvements **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Intel has released the Media Driver 2025Q4 and VPL GPU Runtime 2025Q4. Key highlights include upstreamed Nova Lake S support for video decoding and processing, confirmation that MPEG2 hardware decoding is being dropped with Nova Lake and newer, an AV1 decode fix for Panther Lake X3_LPM platforms, and AV1 encode improvements such as LUT rounding under CQP on Xe2 for better image quality. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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