mesa 26.2

For WSL users doing AV1 work today, the practical answer is to keep using native Windows encoding tools for production and treat Mesa 26.2’s new DirectX 12 AV1 encode path as an experimental development to watch, not a workflow replacement. The reason is simple: the Mesa change scheduled for...

Microsoft engineers merged an initial Mesa 26.2 implementation on July 6, 2026 that enables prototype GPU-accelerated AV1 video encoding on Windows through DirectX 12 and Hardware Media Foundation Transform support, primarily to advance Windows Subsystem for Linux media acceleration. The change...