From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org [79.124.17.100]) by master.gitmailbox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6ACDF4B8B0 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.1.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C3968E6BD; Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:11:34 +0300 (EEST) Received: from iq.passwd.hu (iq.passwd.hu [217.27.212.140]) by ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CAA3680104 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:11:28 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iq.passwd.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A69ECF10 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:09:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at passwd.hu Received: from iq.passwd.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iq.passwd.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3N0Uspumvoxh for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:09:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from iq (iq [217.27.212.140]) by iq.passwd.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 084D1ECF0F for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:09:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:09:24 +0200 (CEST) To: Niklas Haas via ffmpeg-devel In-Reply-To: <20250822141334.GB11447@haasn.xyz> Message-ID: <9210a366-4351-074b-a05d-096bf670b30c@passwd.hu> References: <20250821054712.1552052-1-dev@lynne.ee> <20250822141334.GB11447@haasn.xyz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Announce FFmpeg 8.0 X-BeenThere: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: FFmpeg development discussions and patches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Marton Balint via ffmpeg-devel Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Cc: Marton Balint Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org Sender: "ffmpeg-devel" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Fri, 22 Aug 2025, Niklas Haas via ffmpeg-devel wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:47:03 +0900 Lynne via ffmpeg-devel 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 >> >> >> +

August 23nd, 2025, FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman"

>> +

>> + A new major release, FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman", >> + 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: >> +

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  • Native decoders: APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, and others
    • >> +
  • VVC decoder improvements: IBC, >> + SSC, >> + 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
    • >> +
  • Filters: colordetect, pad_cuda, scale_d3d11, Whisper, and others
    • >> +
>> +

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>> + 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.
>> + Only codecs specifically designed for parallelized decoding can be implemented in such a way, with >> + more mainstream codecs not being planned for support.
>> + 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-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".