FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode

FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. With FFmpeg 7.1 the VVC video decoder has been promoted to stable, there are a number of Vulkan Video improvements, and an assortment of other exciting enhancements.

FFmpeg 7.1 introduces Vulkan Video encoding for H.264 and H.265, implicity DRM sync for Vulkan, new AVX2 code for its VVC decoder, Dolby Vision support improvements, and more.

The VVC decoder has matured enough since FFmpeg 7.0 that with v7.1 they now consider it to be stable rather than experimental.

FFmpeg 7.1 also adds native AAC USAC decoding, MV-HEVC decoding is now supported, LC-EVC decoding now works with an external library, and a lot of other changes.

version 7.1:
- Raw Captions with Time (RCWT) closed caption demuxer
- LC3/LC3plus decoding/encoding using external library liblc3
- ffmpeg CLI filtergraph chaining
- LC3/LC3plus demuxer and muxer
- pad_vaapi, drawbox_vaapi filters
- vf_scale supports secondary ref input and framesync options
- vf_scale2ref deprecated
- qsv_params option added for QSV encoders
- VVC decoder compatible with DVB test content
- xHE-AAC decoder
- removed DEC Alpha DSP and support code
- VVC encoding support via libvvenc
- perlin video source
- D3D12VA HEVC encoder
- Cropping metadata parsing and writing in Matroska and MP4/MOV de/muxers
- Intel QSV-accelerated VVC decoding
- MediaCodec AAC/AMR-NB/AMR-WB/MP3 decoding
- YUV colorspace negotiation for codecs and filters, obsoleting the
YUVJ pixel format
- Vulkan H.264 encoder
- Vulkan H.265 encoder
- stream specifiers in fftools can now match by stream disposition
- LCEVC enhancement data exporting in H.26x and MP4/ISOBMFF
- LCEVC filter
- MV-HEVC decoding

Downloads and more information on today's FFmpeg 7.1 release via FFmpeg.org.