FFmpeg 9.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this widely used, open-source multimedia library.

FFmpeg 9.0 contains a lot of great improvements including more Vulkan API acceleration work like [1]Vulkan APV video decoding and [2]Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan acceleration , [3]the Vulkan v360 video filter , HE-AAC 960 decoding, a transpose NVIDIA CUDA filter, animated WebP decoding and demuxing, continued AMD AMF enhancements, [4]more AVX-512 optimizations , and more.

The official FFmpeg change-log notes the version 9.0 highlights as:

"version 9.0:

- Extend AMF Color Converter (vf_vpp_amf) HDR capabilities

- LCEVC track muxing support in MP4 muxer

- Playdate video encoder and muxer

- Add v360_vulkan filter

- HE-AAC 960 decoding (DAB+)

- transpose_cuda filter

- Add AMF Frame Rate Converter (vf_frc_amf) filter

- SMPTE 2094-50 metadata support and passthrough

- ProRes RAW VideoToolbox hwaccel

- APV Vulkan hwaccel

- Animated WebP decoder

- Animated WebP demuxer

- Remove CELT decoding support (doesn't affect Opus CELT)

- Remove ogg/celt parsing

- Bitstream filter to split Dolby Vision multi-layer HEVC

- Add AMF hardware memory mapping support.

- ONNX Runtime DNN backend with GPU execution provider support

- Remove deprecated NVENC options and support for pre-11.1 SDK versions

- Add AMF Video Quality Enhancer (vf_vqe_amf) filter"

Those building from source can go forth and compile [5]FFmpeg 9.0 for these latest multimedia library capabilities.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-APV

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

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-360-Degree-Vulkan

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-AVX-512-1.372x

[5] https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/tag/5b9252abfe2fda0ccb71ed45cd7a954cc45d2b6f