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News
</h1>
+ <h3 id="pr8.0">August 23nd, 2025, FFmpeg 8.0 <span title="David A.
Huffman">"Huffman"</span></h3>
+ <p>
+ A new major release, <a href="download.html#release_8.0">FFmpeg 8.0 <span title="David A.
Huffman">"Huffman"</span></a>,
+ is now available for download.
+ 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:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Native decoders: <span title="Advanced Professional Video">APV</span>,
ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, and others</li>
+ <li>VVC decoder improvements: <span title="Inter Block Copy">IBC</span>,
+ <span title="Screen Content
Coding">SSC</span>,
+ <span title="Adaptive Color
Transform">ACT</span>,
+ Palette Mode</li>
+ <li>Vulkan compute-based codecs: FFv1 (encode and decode), ProRes RAW (decode
only)</li>
+ <li>Hardware accelerated decoding: Vulkan VP9, VAAPI VVC, OpenHarmony
H264/5</li>
+ <li>Hardware accelerated encoding: Vulkan AV1, OpenHarmony H264/5</li>
+ <li>Filters: colordetect, pad_cuda, scale_d3d11, Whisper, and others</li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A new class of decoders and encoders based on pure Vulkan compute
implementation have been added.
+ Rather than using a custom hardware accelerator present, they are based on
compute shaders, and work
+ on any implementation of Vulkan 1.3. Decoders use the same hwaccel API and
commands, so users do not
+ need to do anything special to enable them, as enabling Vulkan decoding is
sufficient to use them.
+ Encoders, like our hardware accelerated encoders, require specifying a new
encoder (ffv1_vulkan).
+ Currently, the only codecs supported are: FFv1 (encoding and decoding) and
ProRes RAW (decode only).
+ ProRes (encode+decode) and VC-2 (encode+decode) implementations are complete
and currently in review,
+ to be merged soon and available with the next minor release.<br>
+ Only codecs specifically designed for parallelized decoding can be
implemented in such a way, with
+ more mainstream codecs not being planned for support.<br>
+ Depending on the hardware, these new codecs can provide very significant
speedups, and open up
+ possibilities to work with them for situations like non-linear video editors
and
+ lossless screen recording/streaming, so we are excited to learn what our
downstream users can make with them.
