FFmpeg 8.0 released

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from LWN.net on 2025-08-22 21:01 (#6ZGME)

Version 8.0 of the FFmpegaudio 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:
Native decoders: APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, G.728
VVC decoder improvements: IBC, ACT, Palette Mode
Vulkan compute-based codecs: FFv1 (encode and decode), ProRes RAW (decode only)
Hardware accelerated decoding: Vulkan VP9, VAAPI VVC, OpenHarmony H264/5
Hardware accelerated encoding: Vulkan AV1, OpenHarmony H264/5
Formats: MCC, G.728, Whip, APV
Filters: colordetect, pad_cuda, scale_d3d11, Whisper, and others

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