FFmpeg 8.0 released

[Posted August 22, 2025 by corbet]

Version 8.0 of the FFmpeg audio and video toolkit has been released.

Thanks to several delays, and modernization of our entire infrastructure, this release ended up being one of our largest releases to date. In short, its new features are:

Native decoders: APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, G.728
VVC decoder improvements: IBC, ACT, Palette Mode
Vulkan compute-based codecs: FFv1 (encode and decode), ProRes RAW (decode only)
Hardware accelerated decoding: Vulkan VP9, VAAPI VVC, OpenHarmony H264/5
Hardware accelerated encoding: Vulkan AV1, OpenHarmony H264/5
Formats: MCC, G.728, Whip, APV
Filters: colordetect, pad_cuda, scale_d3d11, Whisper, and others

ffv1

Posted Aug 26, 2025 6:48 UTC (Tue) by cypherpunks2 (guest, #152408) [Link]

Vulkan-based ffv1 encoding is a welcome addition. It's the only lossless video format that I know of that has such a good compression ratio with such low complexity. Unfortunately, it's too slow to encode in real time at UHD resolutions in software. The vulkan-based encoder should speed this up significantly!