FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”: A major update available

FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”: A major update available

At the beginning of last year (2022) we announced the release of the version of FFmpeg 5.0 “Lorentz”, of the acquaintance free media software ffmpeg. Which usually comes by default in many GNU/Linux Distros, thanks to its great set of applications and excellent collection of libraries to perform various operations (recording, conversion and decoding of audio and video formats) with different files in various multimedia formats. .

And just a few days ago, it has made available to all those interested, a new version known as version known as “FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann””. Just after six months of development, to bring new features and improvements to users.

But, before starting this post about the announcement of the launch of «FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”», we recommend that you then explore the previous related post with said app:

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FFmpeg 5.0 «Lorentz» has already been released and these are its news

FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”: Free Multimedia Software

What's new in FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”

According to official announcement of this release there is a lot that we can count, but among the most outstanding is the incorporation of many new encoders and decoders, filters, and improvements in the tool ffmpeg CLI.

But, for more details, these 10 notable changes of many included:

1. The inclusion of new decoders, which are: Bonk, RKA, Radiance, SC-4, APAC, VQC, WavArc and some ADPCM formats. Whereas, now QSV and NVenc support AV1 encoding.
2. The FFmpeg CLI (ffmpeg.c) comes with speed improvements due to threading, as well as statistical options and the ability to pass option values ​​to filters from a file.
3. Added quite a few new audio and video filters, such as adrc, showcwt, backgroundkey and ssim360, and some hardware ones as well.
4. A new implementation of FFT and MDCT used in codecs.
5. Numerous bug fixes.
6. Better handling of ICC profiles and improved color space signaling.
7. The introduction of several optimized RISC-V vector and scalar assembly routines.
8. The use of new improved APIs.
9. Some new features included, such as: Vulkan improvements and more FFT optimizations.
10. Finally, building the ffmpeg package in multithreaded mode has been moved to the mandatory category, whereby each muxer now runs on a separate thread.

Starting with this new version 6.0, the way versions are managed will also change. All major versions will now change the version of the ABI. We plan to have a new major version every year. Another release specific change is that deprecated APIs will be removed after 3 releases, in the next major release. This means releases will be more frequent and more organized.

For more information, we recommend visiting your site and Downloads section to get the latest version.

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Summary

In short, this version release «FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”» of the name free media software, brings interesting and useful news (corrections, changes and improvements) that will surely be very well appreciated by its regular users. And, if you are already a user of this new version, it will be a pleasure to know via comments What do you think and how are you using it?

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