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5 Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)
7 VA-API is an open-source library and API specification, which
8 provides access to graphics hardware acceleration capabilities
9 for video processing. It consists of a main library and
10 driver-specific acceleration backends for each supported hardware
13 If you would like to contribute to libva, check our [Contributing
14 guide](https://github.com/01org/libva/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
16 We also recommend taking a look at the ['janitorial'
17 bugs](https://github.com/01org/libva/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AJanitorial)
18 in our list of open issues as these bugs can be solved without an
19 extensive knowledge of libva.
21 We would love to help you start contributing!
23 The libva development team can be reached via our [mailing
24 list](http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libva) and on IRC
25 in channel #intel-media on [Freenode](https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat).