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FFmpeg 9.0 Released With More Vulkan Acceleration, Animated WebP & More AMD AMF

FFmpeg 9.0, the latest feature release of the open-source multimedia library, is now available with more Vulkan acceleration, including APV video decoding and Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan acceleration, plus animated WebP decoding and demuxing, and continued AMD AMF enhancements. The release also adds a Vulkan v360 video filter, HE-AAC 960 decoding, a transpose CUDA filter, more AVX-512 optimizations, and an ONNX Runtime DNN backend with GPU execution provider support.

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FFmpeg 9.0 Released With More Vulkan Acceleration, Animated WebP & More AMD AMF
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FFmpeg 9.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this widely used, open-source multimedia library.

FFmpeg 9.0 contains a lot of great improvements including more Vulkan API acceleration work like

The official FFmpeg change-log notes the version 9.0 highlights as:

Those building from source can go forth and compile

FFmpeg 9.0 contains a lot of great improvements including more Vulkan API acceleration work like

Vulkan APV video decodingandApple ProRes RAW Vulkan acceleration,the Vulkan v360 video filter, HE-AAC 960 decoding, a transpose NVIDIA CUDA filter, animated WebP decoding and demuxing, continued AMD AMF enhancements,more AVX-512 optimizations, and more.The official FFmpeg change-log notes the version 9.0 highlights as:

"version 9.0:

  • Extend AMF Color Converter (vf_vpp_amf) HDR capabilities

  • LCEVC track muxing support in MP4 muxer

  • Playdate video encoder and muxer

  • Add v360_vulkan filter

  • HE-AAC 960 decoding (DAB+)

  • transpose_cuda filter

  • Add AMF Frame Rate Converter (vf_frc_amf) filter

  • SMPTE 2094-50 metadata support and passthrough

  • ProRes RAW VideoToolbox hwaccel

  • APV Vulkan hwaccel

  • Animated WebP decoder

  • Animated WebP demuxer

  • Remove CELT decoding support (doesn't affect Opus CELT)

  • Remove ogg/celt parsing

  • Bitstream filter to split Dolby Vision multi-layer HEVC

  • Add AMF hardware memory mapping support.

  • ONNX Runtime DNN backend with GPU execution provider support

  • Remove deprecated NVENC options and support for pre-11.1 SDK versions

  • Add AMF Video Quality Enhancer (vf_vqe_amf) filter" Those building from source can go forth and compile

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