Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 + HMFT Within Mesa 26.2

The newest, unexpected addition to the Mesa codebase by Microsoft engineers is contributed accelerated AV1 video encoding on the GPU using a combination of DirectX 12 and the Hardware Media Foundation Transform (HMFT) support that is part of the Windows Media Foundation layer... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-AV1-Encode-DX12-HMFT