--- title: Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 +... description: Microsoft engineers have contributed AV1 video encoding support to Mesa 26.2, leveraging DirectX 12 and Hardware Media Foundation Transform (HMFT) for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-lands-initial-av1-encoding-using-directx-12-hmft-within-mesa-26-2-jayvqvz9m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 + HMFT Within Mesa 26.2 | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft engineers have contributed AV1 video encoding support to Mesa 26.2, leveraging DirectX 12 and Hardware Media Foundation Transform (HMFT) for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-lands-initial-av1-encoding-using-directx-12-hmft-within-mesa-26-2-jayvqvz9m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jAyvQVZ9M.png og:image:alt: Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 + HMFT Within Mesa 26.2 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. # Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 + HMFT Within Mesa 26.2 **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft engineers have contributed AV1 video encoding support to Mesa 26.2, leveraging DirectX 12 and Hardware Media Foundation Transform (HMFT) for cross-vendor GPU-accelerated encoding on Windows. The implementation is a prototype (~900 lines of code) supporting I and P frame encoding, with advanced features pending further integration. The primary motivation is improving Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) capabilities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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