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FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” Open-Source Multimedia Framework Officially Released
Dubbed “Lei” and coming about a year after FFmpeg 8.0, the FFmpeg 9.0 release is here to extend AMF Color Converter (vf_vpp_amf) HDR capabilities, add LCEVC track muxing support in the MP4 muxer, add a v360_vulkan filter, add an AMF Frame Rate Converter (vf_frc_amf) filter, along with AMF hardware memory mapping support.
FFmpeg 9.0 also introduces APV Vulkan hardware acceleration, HE-AAC 960 decoding (DAB+), SMPTE 2094-50 metadata support and passthrough, ProRes RAW VideoToolbox hardware acceleration, a bitstream filter to split Dolby Vision multi-layer HEVC, and a Playdate video encoder and muxer.
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FFmpeg 9.0 Released with New GPU Accelerated Decoders [Ubuntu PPA]
FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 9.0 version today.
The new version of this library introduced some new decoders and encoders, hardware accelerated encoders and filters for better performance, as well as many other new features.
First, FFmpeg 9.0 introduced decoding animated WebP images support, as well as, extracting its individual image frames and timing information.