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FFmpeg Articles & Reviews

Windows 10 Pro vs. Five Linux Distributions In Various Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2018-03-23
An Interview With The Developers Of FFmpeg   Software   2009-03-11
A NVIDIA VDPAU Back-End For Intel's VA-API   Display Drivers   2009-02-03
Mplayer, FFmpeg Gain VA-API Support   Software   2008-12-24

FFmpeg Linux & Open-Source News

Intel oneAPI VPL 2024Q2 GPU Runtime Prepares For VVC Decode   Intel   2024-07-22
Intel FFmpeg 2024Q2 Update Enables GPU-Accelerated VVC Decoding   Intel   2024-07-16
Shotcut 24.06 Supports SVT-AV1 Encode & AVIF Images, Many Fixes   Free Software   2024-06-28
OpenShot 3.2 Released With Better Performance For This Open-Source Video Editor   Free Software   2024-06-25
AMD ROCm 6.1.2 Released With Fixes & Optimizations   Radeon   2024-06-04
NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May   Phoronix   2024-06-01
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg   Multimedia   2024-05-16
AMD Aims For AMF Decode In FFmpeg, Questioned Over Vulkan Video Commitment   AMD   2024-05-10
FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support   Multimedia   2024-04-23
MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes   Multimedia   2024-04-17
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 Brings New Filter To Transform Old Content   Intel   2024-04-10
FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI   Multimedia   2024-04-05
SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API   Linux Gaming   2024-03-24
Intel Releases SVT-AV1 2.0 For Even Faster AV1 Encoding   Intel   2024-03-15
Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding   Mesa   2024-03-07
FFmpeg Merges DVD-Video Demuxer   Multimedia   2024-03-03
RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1   Mesa   2024-02-27
OBS Merges FFmpeg VA-API AV1 Support   Multimedia   2024-01-24
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel Updated With Meteor Lake Support & More DNN Functionality   Intel   2024-01-10
NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023   NVIDIA   2024-01-02
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December   Phoronix   2024-01-01
Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023   Phoronix   2023-12-28
Intel Improves FFmpeg's DNN Detect Filter For AI Object Detection   Intel   2023-12-21
FFmpeg Begins Landing Support For AOMedia's IAMF - Immersive Audio Model and Formats   Multimedia   2023-12-19
Shotcut 23.12 Released With Wayland Crash Fix, Upgraded AV1 Encode/Decode   Multimedia   2023-12-18
RADV Vulkan Video Encoding Still Being Worked On   Mesa   2023-12-18
AMD Enables VCN Region Of Interest "ROI" Video Encoder Support For Linux GPU Drivers   Radeon   2023-12-17
FreeRDP 3.0 Released With WebSocket Transport, Relative Mouse Movement & More   Free Software   2023-12-13
FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades   Multimedia   2023-12-12
Flowblade 2.12 Video Editor Brings Faster Proxy Rendering, Continued GTK4 Porting   Multimedia   2023-12-04
FreeRDP 3.0 Adding Relative Mouse Movement & Other Improvements   Free Software   2023-11-27
FFmpeg's ffplay Media Player Adds Vulkan Renderer   Multimedia   2023-11-18
FFmpeg 6.1 Released With Vulkan Video Decoding, VA-API AV1 Encode   Multimedia   2023-11-11
FFmpeg Patches Allow For "Fully Functional" Multi-Threaded CLI   Multimedia   2023-11-06
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q3 Released For Latest VA-API & QSV Code   Intel   2023-10-27
AMD Advanced Media Acceleration "AMA" 1.0 SDK Released   AMD   2023-10-13
OBS Studio 30 Beta Brings Intel QSV On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output   Multimedia   2023-08-17
MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode   Multimedia   2023-07-23
Intel Releases Updated Q2-2023 FFmpeg Cartwheel   Intel   2023-07-19
Intel Releases libva 2.19 VA-API Video Acceleration Library For Windows & Linux   Multimedia   2023-07-12
AMD AMF SDK 1.4.30 Released For Multimedia Processing On Windows & Linux   AMD   2023-07-07
FFmpeg Adds Support For Animated JPEG-XL   Multimedia   2023-06-08
FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters   Multimedia   2023-05-31
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q1 Brings Improved Multi-GPU Video Acceleration Support   Intel   2023-05-01
AMD Adds AV1 Video Encoding Support To Mesa VA-API   Radeon   2023-04-27
FFmpeg Now Works With VA-API On Windows Thanks To Microsoft   Multimedia   2023-04-25
Chinese GPU Vendor Moore Threads Contributing To VA-API, FFmpeg   Free Software   2023-04-17
Qt 6.5 LTS Released With Many Improvements   Qt   2023-04-03
OBS Studio Lands AV1 & HEVC RTMP Streaming Support   Multimedia   2023-03-27
Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Decoding For VP9   Mesa   2023-03-13
Linux 6.2, Linux 6.3 Developments, KDE Plasma 5.27 & More Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-02-28
FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements   Multimedia   2023-02-28
Google Summer of Code 2023 Organizations Announced For Students & New Developers   Google   2023-02-23
dav1d 1.1 Released With More AVX-512 Improvements   Multimedia   2023-02-14
Microsoft Officially Launches D3D12 GPU Video Acceleration For WSL Linux Use   Microsoft   2023-02-13
FFmpeg Is Ripe For More AVX-512 Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-02-11
Initial Intel Vulkan Video Support Lands In Mesa 23.1   Intel   2023-02-08
Mesa 23.1 RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video Decoding For H.264/H.265   Radeon   2023-02-07
FFmpeg 6.0 Will Be Big With AV1 Hardware Decoding, Many Other Features   Multimedia   2023-02-06
MythTV 33 Released For Improving This Popular HTPC/PVR Open-Source Software   Multimedia   2023-02-06
Vulkan SDK Updated With Vulkan Video Support   Vulkan   2023-01-30
VK_MESA_video_decode_av1: Early Vulkan AV1 Decoding For Open-Source Radeon Driver   Mesa   2023-01-17
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel 2022Q4 Released - Raptor Lake P, Better AV1 & HEVC Encode   Intel   2023-01-16
VKD3D-Proton's Hans-Kristian Arntzen Experimenting With Vulkan Video   Vulkan   2023-01-07
RADV Vulkan Video Making Progress On H.264 Encoding   Radeon   2022-12-29
OpenCV 4.7 Brings Numerous Improvements To This Open-Source Computer Vision Library   Programming   2022-12-28
Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Sees New Work On Vulkan Video Extensions   Intel   2022-12-17
Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Gets H.264 & H.265 Decode Working   Mesa   2022-12-15
Blender 3.4 Now Available With Wayland, Intel Open Path Guiding Integration   Free Software   2022-12-07
Intel Publishes Latest FFmpeg Patches For Better GPU Video Encode/Decode   Intel   2022-12-01
Virgl Adds Accelerated Video Encoding To Guest VMs   Mesa   2022-11-18
MPV 0.35 Media Player Released With PipeWire Backend, Wayland DMA-BUF Support   Multimedia   2022-11-12
The Khronos Group Announces "Kamaros" As Their Newest Forthcoming API   Standards   2022-11-09
FFmpeg Lands NVIDIA NVENC AV1 Encoding Support   NVIDIA   2022-11-06
Intel Lands An AV1 QSV Encoder In FFmpeg   Intel   2022-10-30
Thanks Microsoft: RadeonSI Enables Async VA-API For Faster Video Acceleration   Mesa   2022-09-27
Microsoft Speeds Up Mesa VA-API Video Acceleration For FFmpeg   Mesa   2022-09-22
Microsoft Lands HEVC Video Encode/Decode Within Mesa Using VA-API To Direct3D 12   Mesa   2022-09-15
Intel Talks Up Their oneVPL Acceleration Within FFmpeg   Intel   2022-09-11
FFmpeg Begins Integrating Intel oneVPL Support   Multimedia   2022-08-12
IPFS Supported In FFmpeg 5.1, IPFS Devs Envision Support In More Open-Source Projects   Multimedia   2022-08-10
Systemd Creator At Microsoft, Retbleed, Rust's Continued Growth & Other July Highlights   Phoronix   2022-08-01
FFmpeg 5.1 Released With Many Improvements To This Important Multimedia Project   Multimedia   2022-07-22
Microsoft Extends Mesa's D3D12 Video Acceleration To Support Video Engine Based Effects   Mesa   2022-07-22
Rockchip RkVDEC Linux Driver Being Prepared For HEVC/H.265 Support   Multimedia   2022-07-14
NVIDIA Lands AV1 VDPAU Hardware Acceleration In FFmpeg   NVIDIA   2022-06-26
Shotcut 22.06 Video Editor Adds Support For Lottie Animations, Filter Improvements   Free Software   2022-06-26
SDL Adds Initial Support For LoongArch   Linux Gaming   2022-06-08
Microsoft Lands VA-API To Direct3D 12 H.264 Video Encode/Decode In Mesa   Microsoft   2022-05-17
FFmpeg Lands AVIF Muxer For This Image Format Based On AV1   Multimedia   2022-05-13
FFmpeg Lands JPEG-XL Support   Multimedia   2022-04-24
Qt 6.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support, Qt Language Server Module   Qt   2022-04-12
FFmpeg Finally Retires XvMC Hardware Acceleration Code   Multimedia   2022-02-17
Intel Alder Lake & Linux Kernel Advancements Made For An Exciting January   Phoronix   2022-02-01
PipeWire 0.3.44 Released With Latency Improvements, Minimal PW Server Support   PipeWire   2022-01-27
X.Org Foundation May Find A New Organization To Join   X.Org   2022-01-21
Firefox Gets AV1 VA-API Acceleration Sorted Out   Mozilla   2022-01-18
FFmpeg 5.0 Aims To Be An LTS Release   Multimedia   2022-01-17
FFmpeg 5.0 Released For This Popular, Open-Source Multimedia Library   Multimedia   2022-01-14
Better AMD Radeon VCE Video Encode Performance Coming To Linux   Radeon   2021-12-30
Intel Contributes A Number Of Vulkan Filters/Improvements To FFmpeg   Intel   2021-12-12
AMD AMF SDK 1.4.23 Brings Main 10 HEVC Encode, Auto LTR Encoder Mode   AMD   2021-12-04
Experimental FFmpeg Code For Vulkan Acceleration   Multimedia   2021-11-18
MPV 0.34 Released For Popular Linux Media Player   Multimedia   2021-11-01
Trinity Desktop R14.0.11 Released For Continuing To Improve Upon KDE 3.5   KDE   2021-10-31
OpenShot 2.6.1 Released For This Open-Source Video Editor   Free Software   2021-09-11
OpenShot 2.6 Video Editor Released With Computer Vision + AI Effects   Multimedia   2021-08-25
VA-API AV1 Decode Lands In Mesa 21.3 Gallium3D   Mesa   2021-08-17
AV1 VA-API Acceleration Coming For AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Linux Users   Radeon   2021-08-13
New + Updated Benchmarks For May 2021 - Now At 661 Tests, ~36d19h Average Total Runtime   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-06-02
Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects   Google   2021-05-17
FFmpeg 4.4 Released With AV1 VA-API Decoder, SVT-AV1 Encoding   Multimedia   2021-04-09
NVIDIA's Open-Source DALI Reaches Version 1.0   NVIDIA   2021-03-24
200+ Open-Source Projects Involved In GSoC 2021   Google   2021-03-10
Solus 4.2 Released With Linux 5.10 Kernel, Other Updated Packages   Operating Systems   2021-02-03
Intel Media SDK 20.5.1 Released   Intel   2020-12-30
AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, Timely New Open-Source GPU Support   AMD   2020-12-29
Vulkan Improvements & Fixes Land In FFmpeg   Multimedia   2020-11-29
Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready To Be Deemed Stable   Multimedia   2020-11-17
FFmpeg Lands Support For NVIDIA AV1 Video Decoding With RTX 30 + NVDEC   Multimedia   2020-11-11
FFmpeg Lands VA-API AV1 Decode Support Led By Intel   Multimedia   2020-11-04
FFmpeg Now Supports VP9 Profile 2 VDPAU Decode (10-bit / 12-bit)   Multimedia   2020-10-09
FFmpeg Now Supports GPU Inference With Intel's OpenVINO   Multimedia   2020-09-20
AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding   Radeon   2020-09-15
Intel Working On VA-API AV1 Acceleration For FFmpeg   Intel   2020-09-10
NihAV Is An Experimental Multimedia Framework Written In Rust   Multimedia   2020-08-09
Intel's Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Sees First Release Of 2020   Intel   2020-08-04
FNA FAudio 20.08 Released With WMA Decoding Powered By GStreamer   Linux Gaming   2020-08-01
FFmpeg Adds H.265 Tile Encoding Support For VA-API With Intel Icelake+   Multimedia   2020-07-20
NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 10 Brings Few Changes For This Proprietary Library   NVIDIA   2020-07-02
Raspberry Pi Vulkan, WSL2, Renoir, Linux 5.8 + PHP8 Was Exciting For June   Phoronix   2020-07-01
FFmpeg 4.3 Released With AMD AMF Encoding, Vulkan Support, AV1 Encode   Multimedia   2020-06-16
Intel's High-Performance VP9 Encoder Sees Its Second Release   Intel   2020-05-04
Sailfish OS 3.3 "Rokua" Released With Many Improvements For This Mobile Linux OS   Operating Systems   2020-04-29
NetBSD Working On Better OSS Compatibility / Translation Layer, Encouraging Native API Use   BSD   2020-04-27
Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux   Clear Linux   2020-04-03
Firefox 76 Enabling VA-API Wayland Acceleration For All Video Codecs   Mozilla   2020-03-19
FFmpeg Squaring Away Vulkan Support For Its Next Release   Vulkan   2020-03-13
Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration   Mozilla   2020-03-03
Intel Adds VA-API Acceleration For HEVC REXT To FFmpeg   Intel   2020-02-25
Google Announces The 200 Open-Source Projects For GSoC 2020   Google   2020-02-22
Firefox Is Seeing Work On Wayland VA-API Video Acceleration   Mozilla   2020-01-25
Radeon Gallium3D Fixes Up 10-Bit HEVC Video Decode Support   Radeon   2020-01-03
Some Of The Possible Changes Coming For The Desktop With Ubuntu 20.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2019-12-05
FFmpeg Can Now Make Use Of VDPAU VP9 Video Decoding   Multimedia   2019-10-26
Intel Adds GPU-Accelerated Memory Copy Support To FFmpeg   Intel   2019-10-09
FFmpeg Adds ZeroMQ Support To Let Multiple Clients Connect To A Single Instance   Multimedia   2019-09-03
Kodi 18.4 Released With A Few Months Worth Of Fixes   Multimedia   2019-09-02
FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Vulkan Support For Linux Users   Multimedia   2019-08-28
FFmpeg Lands OpenCL-Powered Video Stabilization Filter   Multimedia   2019-08-26