FFmpeg 6.1 “Heaviside” Released with VAAPI AV1 Encoder, HW Vulkan Decoding

posted by Marius Nestor on Nov 11, 2023,
updated Nov 26, 2023

Coming more than eight months after FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”, the FFmpeg 6.1 release is dubbed “Heaviside” and introduces multi-threaded Vulkan-powered hardware accelerated decoding supporting H264, HEVC, and AV1 codecs, as well as a VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) AV1 encoder.

It also adds support for HEVC, VP9, and AV1 codecs in enhanced FLV and RTMP formats, a Playdate video decoder and demuxer, an OSQ demuxer and decoder, Essential Video Coding parser, muxer, demuxer, and frame merge bsf, Raw AC-4 muxer and demuxer, and Raw VVC bitstream parser, muxer, and demuxer.

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UbuntuPIT:

• FFmpeg 6.1 ‘Heaviside’: HEVC, VP9, and AV1 Codecs in Enhanced FLV and RTMP Protocols

  FFmpeg is a comprehensive multimedia processing tool widely used for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. It is an open-source software project comprising a suite of libraries and programs for performing various tasks, including format transcoding, basic editing, video scaling, video post-production effects, and standards compliance.

  For example, it can convert multimedia files from one format to another, trim and concatenate multimedia files, scale multimedia files to a different resolution, apply video post-production effects to multimedia files, and ensure they comply with standards such as SMPTE and ITU.

An update:

• FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic • The Register