FFmpeg 8.0 is now available! FFmpeg 8.0 is a magnificent update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library and with this new version is the introduction of an OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition, many Vulkan Video improvements for greater GPU-accelerated video handling, and a number of CPU performance optimizations.

FFmpeg 8.0 also now depends on NASM Rather than YASM, adds VVC VA-API decoding support, RealVideo 6.0 decoder, OpenMAX video encoders have been deprecated, VVC in Matroska container support, animated JPEG-XL encoding support using libjxl, APV video encoding and decoding , G.728 decoder support, HDR improvements , ProRes RAW decoding, AMD AMF decoding and FSR upscaling , and EXIF metadata parsing support.

Some of the Vulkan work in FFmpeg 8.0 includes VP9 video acceleration, AV1 encode support , faster FFV1 decoding , and Vulkan hardware acceleration for ProRes RAW .

Plus numerous CPU performance optimizations especially with significant performance benefits for AVX-512 CPUs .

FFmpeg 8.0 can be downloaded from FFmpeg Git .