Full VP9 hardware support was only introduced in Kaby Lake. Apparently some hybrid of software/hardware VP9 support is possible with Sky Lake but it's not proper hardware support...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10610/intel-announces-7th-gen-kaby-lake- 14nm-plus-six-notebook-skus-desktop-coming-in-january/3 ** Changed in: intel-vaapi-driver (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to intel-vaapi-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1591714 Title: Why no VAProfileVP9Profile* in libva To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-vaapi-driver/+bug/1591714/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
