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+# zeus builds live hddimg by default which has a hard limit of 4GB.
+# Exclude intel-media-driver and intel-mediasdk from default configuration
+# to avoid breakages when using default poky configuration.
+# These don't enable ptests anyway and are not needed by ones that do.
+MACHINE_HWCODECS = " intel-vaapi-driver gstreamer1.0-vaapi"