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 Bugs, which is subscribed to 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 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
