On Fri, 22 Aug 2025, Niklas Haas via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:47:03 +0900 Lynne via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:--- src/index | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/index b/src/index index 52829e1..a07f4b8 100644 --- a/src/index +++ b/src/index @@ -35,6 +35,48 @@ 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.Respectfully, I think this section is rather too long and technical and not really interesting to most users. Either describe all of the changes (of which you allude to, there are a lot) in detail, or none of them, but as it stands this feels like shining a spotlight on your contributions in particular.
I don't think this is too technical, ffmpeg release announcement is targeted for people with a strong tech/video interest, not general audience.
Also I find it quite OK if you elaborate a bit in one highlighted area of the release in the news entry. A news entry is not an extensive list of features implemented, only highlights.
So we should apply this as soon as we can. Thanks, Marton _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
