** Description changed:

  [ Description ]
  Intel has requested us to update the media driver (free and non-free) to 
24.3.4 due to the need to have Lunar Lake (LNL) and Battle Mage (BMG) support.
  
  This request has a strong dependency on an intel-gmmlib version bump to
  22.5.2 and a libva version bump to 2.22.0.
  
  [ Impact ]
  
-  * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage currently do not have an LTS support 
option, which is not a good option for some users, as seen here:
+  * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage currently do not have an LTS support 
option, which is not a good option for some users, as seen here:
  https://github.com/canonical/intel-graphics-preview/issues/8
  
-  * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage hardware will not have hardware-
+  * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage hardware will not have hardware-
  enabled media support, which can effect the power consumption and CPU
  utilization of the machine during encode/decode/transcode operations,
  video calls, streaming, etc.
  
  [ Test Plan ]
  
  # On a Lunar Lake or Battlemage machine
  
  # Required at this time to get baseline enablement
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kobuk-team/intel-graphics-testing
  sudo apt update
  
  # Get the original versions back
  sudo apt install -y intel-media-va-driver-non-free=24.1.0+ds1-1  
libva2=2.20.0-2build1 libigdgmm12=22.3.17+ds1-1  vainfo=2.12.0+ds1-1 
libva-drm2=2.20.0-2build1 libva-wayland2=2.20.0-2build1 
libva-x11-2=2.20.0-2build1
  
  # This should result in an error
  sudo vainfo
  
  sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mckeesh/testing && sudo apt -y update
  # Only upgrade the media packages
  sudo apt install -y intel-media-va-driver-non-free=24.3.4+ds1-0ubuntu1  
libva2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 libigdgmm12=22.5.2-0ubuntu1 libva-drm2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 
libva-wayland2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 libva-x11-2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 vainfo=2.12.0+ds1-1
  
  # This should no longer result in an error
  sudo vainfo
  
  [ Where problems could occur ]
  
-  * This is a sizable change, and while significant testing goes into
+  * This is a sizable change, and while significant testing goes into
  making sure the media stack does not regress, it's always a risk. Ubuntu
  has a large user base with many, many corner cases, and media stack
  bumps can always accidentally regress a less popular codec on an older
  platform. However, we can address any smaller regressions that might
  arise when the benefit is enablement of LNL and BMG.
  
+ * Beyond Intel's extensive in-house testing, we have done our own
+ testing via FFMPEG to check for AV1, VP9, and H264 hardware acceleration
+ for encode and decode at 1080p and 4K. In addition to Lunar Lake and
+ Battlemage, we have also tested Alder Lake, Comet Lake, and Gemini Lake
+ and found no regressions across these platforms
+ 
  [ Other Info ]

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