FFmpeg 8.0 “Huffman” Released with AV1 Vulkan Encoder, VVC VA-API Decoding

posted by Marius Nestor on Aug 22, 2025,
updated Aug 29, 2025

Dubbed “Huffman” and coming more than ten months after FFmpeg 7.1, the FFmpeg 8.0 release is here to enable TLS peer certificate verification by default, add an AV1 Vulkan encoder, introduce VP9 Vulkan and ProRes RAW Vulkan hardware-acceleration, and implement APV encoding support through a libopenapv wrapper.

FFmpeg 8.0 also introduces animated JPEG XL encoding via the libjxl library, adds multitrack audio/video and modern codec support to FLV v2, adds VVC (Versatile Video Coding) support in Matroska (MKV), and adds VVC decoder support to all SCC (Screen Content Coding) content, including IBC (Inter Block Copy), Palette Mode, and ACT (Adaptive Color Transform).

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Linuxiac:

• FFmpeg 8.0 Arrives With Whisper Filter, Vulkan Encoders

  Over ten months after the previous 7.1 release, the FFmpeg project has rolled out version 8.0 “Huffman,” loaded with new features and some notable cleanups under the hood.

  One of the headline additions is a new Whisper filter, expanding FFmpeg’s toolset for audio processing. On the video side, there’s fresh support for animated JPEG XL encoding through libjxl, along with an enhanced FLV v2 format that now handles multitrack audio and video as well as modern codecs.

  For codec enthusiasts, the update introduces decoders for RealVideo 6.0, ProRes RAW, and G.728, plus a VVC VAAPI decoder that extends support for screen content coding features like inter block copy, palette mode, and adaptive color transform.

LWN:

• FFmpeg 8.0 released

  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: [...]

More here:

• FFmpeg 8.0 Released with Native APV and ProRes RAW Decoder

  FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 8.0 version almost a year since the last 7.1. The new FFmpeg 8.0, codename “Huffman”, added native decoding support for Samsung’s Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec, Apple’s ProRes RAW, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, RealVideo 6.0, G.728, and ADPCM IMA Xbox.

OMG Joey:

• FFmpeg’s ‘Largest Release’ Yet Brings Vulkan Video Processing

  FFmpeg 8.0 introduces Vulkan compute-based codecs for pro-grade video formats, new decoders, Whisper Hey Hi (AI) transcription, and other assorted improvements.

• The Open-Source FFmpeg Media Framework Just Got a Big Update

  FFmpeg is the powerful open-source media encoder, decoder, and all-purpose framework for media files. Even if you haven’t used it directly, you’ve probably used an app that relies on it. Now, it has received a major update with the release of FFmpeg 8.0.

  FFmpeg 8.0 is the tool’s first update since March 2025, and the developers say it’s “one of our largest releases to date.” First, it adds native decoding support for the APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, and G.728 codecs. ProRes RAW is Apple’s high-quality compressed video format—not to be confused with the regular ProRes video codec or ProRAW image format, both of which are capture options on some iPhone models. APV is a competitor to Apple’s (regular) ProRes format with the involvement of Samsung, and will likely appear in future Galaxy and Pixel phones.

  This release also has two new Vulkan compute-based codecs, for FFv1 (encode and decode) and ProRes RAW (decode only). The team said, “A new class of decoders and encoders based on pure Vulkan compute implementation have been added. Vulkan is a cross-platform, open standard set of APIs that allows programs to use GPU hardware in various ways, from drawing on screen, to doing calculations, to decoding video via custom hardware accelerators. Rather than using a custom hardware accelerator present, these codecs are based on compute shaders, and work on any implementation of Vulkan 1.3.”

The Register:

• Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly

  FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.

  At the start of the week, the FFmpeg project released its eighth major version. It's codenamed "Huffman" after the Huffman code algorithm, which was invented in 1952, making it one of the oldest lossless compression algorithms.

  We last looked at FFmpeg version 6.1 in late 2023, in case you need to refresh your memory for what it is and does. Since then, there was 7.0 last April and 7.1 in September, but after an unusually long interval, this is the first release of 2025 – and it's quite a big one.

May be slop:

• FFmpeg 8.0 Introduces Hey Hi (AI) and Vulkan Codecs Revolution