FFmpeg 8.0 is out — a landmark upgrade that folds OpenAI’s Whisper transcription into the filter chain, expands Vulkan-based video processing across encoders and decoders, and modernizes the build and optimization stack with broad CPU and GPU-focused improvements.
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FFmpeg remains the...
FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman" lands as a sweeping, technically ambitious release that folds AI transcription, broad Vulkan compute support, dozens of native decoders, and notable hardware-acceleration improvements into the project’s core — a release the developers call one of their largest to date and...
FFmpeg’s new assembly lessons have turned a niche skill into a teachable path: a compact, practical curriculum aimed squarely at developers who want to write the kind of hand-optimized SIMD code that still powers the highest-performance media pipelines. The lessons, published as a public...
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FFmpeg 8.0 lands as a major milestone for open-source media tooling, introducing Vulkan-based video processing, a native AV1 Vulkan encoder, an OpenAI Whisper transcription filter, expanded VVC and ProRes support, and a raft of security and build changes that together reshape how creators...