FFmpeg 8.1

gyan

Changelog: ffprobe -codec option EXIF Metadata Parsing gfxcapture: Windows.Graphics.Capture based window/monitor capture hxvs demuxer for HXVS/HXVT IP camera format MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding via mpeghdec D3D12 H.264 encoder drawvg filter via libcairo ffmpeg CLI tiled HEIF support D3D12 AV1 encoder ProRes Vulkan hwaccel DPX Vulkan hwaccel Rockchip H.264/HEVC hardware encoder Add vf_scale_d3d12 filter JPEG-XS parser JPEG-XS decoder and encoder through libsvtjpegxs JPEG-XS raw bitstream muxer and demuxer IAMF Projection mode Ambisonic Audio Elements muxing and demuxing Add vf_mestimate_d3d12 filter xHE-AAC Mps212 decoding support (experimental) Remove the old HLS protocol handler Vulkan compute codec optimizations swscale Vulkan support LCEVC metadata bitstream filter Add vf_deinterlace_d3d12 filter ffprobe: only show refs field in stream section when reading frames ProRes Vulkan encoder LCEVC parser LCEVC enhancement layer exporting in MPEG-TS

megous

I wouldn't get too excited about rockchip hw encoding. It's rkmpp based, not an upstream solution. You'd need Rockchip kernel for this, I guess.

pandaforce

Khronos published a post on the Vulkan compute codecs in FFmpeg: https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-wit...

ghgr

> Oh there's a new version of ffmpeg, I'll just quickly build it from source... no I can't wait I'll download the binary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM

brcmthrowaway

How much of this release was done by to corporate/big tech employees?

shevy-java

FFmpeg is really great. The only wish I'd have is for the usage to become simpler - both for regular stuff, but also for advanced filtering. If anyone remembers, avisynth was pretty cool back in the days. You could kind of script video/audio manipulations, a bit like a UNIX/Linux pipe, but kind of simpler, in my opinion. FFmpeg allows for many similar operations, but remembering anything here is ... hard. I'd love for the whole usage API to become much simpler, but it seems nobody among the ffmpeg dev team is considering this. :( I can't be the only one with that wish though ... It does not diminish ffmpeg being so great in general, but I think it could be better.

edgarvaldes

One of the best open-source tools out there. I'm a frequent user of Plex, Jellyfin, Tunarr, local music files, etc. I use it weekly to extract subtitles, trim videos, convert music formats, and remove audio tracks. After writing the previous paragraph, I realized I've never donated to the project; it's time to change that.

wei03288

The FATE regression test suite improvements are the part I'm most interested in here. FFmpeg's test coverage has historically been pretty sparse for edge cases — things like seeking in fragmented MP4s or specific codec interactions. More automated regression testing means fewer 'works on my machine' surprises when upgrading between versions in CI pipelines. The new filter graph syntax changes are going to break some scripts though; already saw a few people in the issue tracker hit the deprecated options.

jsrcout

Just realized they tag the releases with great names in math/computing. Very cool.