FFmpeg 5.0 Released For This Popular, Open-Source Multimedia Library
FFmpeg 5.0 is out today as a shiny feature update to this widely-used open-source audio/video handling suite.
With nine months since the FFmpeg 4.4 release, there is quite a bit to find with today's FFmpeg 5.0 release. Some of the FFmpeg 5.0 highlights include:
- New Vulkan-powered filters for video horizontal/vertical flipping.
- An Apple Graphics SMC encoder.
- Speex decoder.
- Various new muxers/demuxers such as for Argonaut Games CVG and an experimental IMF demuxer.
- An AV1 low-overhead bitstream format muxer is added.
- Swscale slice threading support.
- New audio and video filters.
- LoongArch CPU architecture support.
See the FFmpeg change-log for more of the highlights. FFmpeg 5.0 can be downloaded at FFmpeg.org. (Update: While the sources for FFmpeg 5.0 are out there, the formal release announcement and binaries are expected to be announced on Monday.)
With nine months since the FFmpeg 4.4 release, there is quite a bit to find with today's FFmpeg 5.0 release. Some of the FFmpeg 5.0 highlights include:
- New Vulkan-powered filters for video horizontal/vertical flipping.
- An Apple Graphics SMC encoder.
- Speex decoder.
- Various new muxers/demuxers such as for Argonaut Games CVG and an experimental IMF demuxer.
- An AV1 low-overhead bitstream format muxer is added.
- Swscale slice threading support.
- New audio and video filters.
- LoongArch CPU architecture support.
See the FFmpeg change-log for more of the highlights. FFmpeg 5.0 can be downloaded at FFmpeg.org. (Update: While the sources for FFmpeg 5.0 are out there, the formal release announcement and binaries are expected to be announced on Monday.)
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