[1]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, [2]APV video encoding and decoding , G.728 decoder support, [3]HDR improvements , ProRes RAW decoding, [4]AMD AMF decoding and FSR upscaling , and EXIF metadata parsing support.

Some of the Vulkan work in FFmpeg 8.0 includes VP9 video acceleration, [5]AV1 encode support , [6]faster FFV1 decoding , and [7]Vulkan hardware acceleration for ProRes RAW .

Plus [8]numerous CPU performance optimizations especially with [9]significant performance benefits for AVX-512 CPUs .

FFmpeg 8.0 can be downloaded from [10]FFmpeg Git .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/FFmpeg+8.0

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Adds-APV-Encoder

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-HDR-Work-EOY2024

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-AMD-AMF-Decoder-FSR

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-AV1-Vulkan-Encoder

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-FFV1-Vulkan-AMD-3x

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-ProRes-RAW

[8] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Bwdif-AVX-512

[9] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-July-2025-AVX-512

[10] https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/140fd653aed8cad774f991ba083e2d01e86420c7