FFmpeg 7.1 released

[Posted October 1, 2024 by jzb]

Version 7.1 of the FFmpeg audio/video toolkit has been released. Important changes in this release include the VVC decoder reaching stable status, and inclusion of support for MV-HEVC decoding (which is generated by recent phones and VR headsets), as well as support for Vulkan encoding with H264 and HEVC. See the announcement and changelog for full details.

Been a user of ffmpeg since about 2006...

Posted Oct 1, 2024 19:57 UTC (Tue) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] (1 responses)

... at both work and home. Thank you, FFmpeg devs and community for so much capability and options!

Been a user of ffmpeg since about 2006...

Posted Oct 2, 2024 6:22 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Same. It really is an amazing program. Handling video files on Linux would be much more painful without it.