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FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multi-media library, released the second maintenance update for its 8.1 release series a few days ago.
The new version of this media library comes with more than a hundred of changes, mainly include bug-fixes, stability improvements, as well as some minor new features.
FFmpeg, the popular multimedia library, released new 8.1.1 version few days ago.
This is a maintenance release that includes mostly bug-fixes, stability improvements, as well as few minor new features.
FFmpeg, the popular multimedia library, release new major 8.1 version yesterday on March 16th.
The new version, code-name “Hoare”, features some new encoders and decoders for more codecs support, new filters, and other improvements.
This is a step by step guide shows how to manually compile & install FFmpeg 8.0 from source with NVIDIA GPU acceleration support through cuda-nvcc and enable-libnpp in Ubuntu 24.04 & 22.04.
FFmpeg 8.0 so far is the latest version of this popular multi-media library, that features APV and ProRes RAW decoders, hardware accelerated VP9 and VVC encoding, and new Vulkan compute-based codecs support for FFv1 (encoding and decoding).
FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 8.0 version almost a year since the last 7.1.
The new FFmpeg 8.0, codename “Huffman”, added native decoding support for Samsung’s Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec, Apple’s ProRes RAW, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, RealVideo 6.0, G.728, and ADPCM IMA Xbox.
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FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multi-media library, is going to release the new major 8.0 version in next few weeks in August.
Michael Niedermayer, the project lead announced in last week:
I intend to create the release/8.0 branch in the next 1-2 weeks after that i intend to make teh 8.0 release in the following 1-2 weeks.
FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new 7.1.1 version few days ago. Here are the changelog and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.
FFmpeg is a maintenance released with more then 2 hundreds of changes, which are primarily bug-fixes and improvements.
The popular FFmpeg media library released new version 7.1 a few days ago. Here are the new features and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 users.
The new release of FFmpeg library added official VVC decoder support. Versatile Video Coding (VVC in short), also known as H.266, has about 50% better compression rate for the same quality compared to HEVC (aka H.265). It supports resolutions ranging from very low up to 4K, 16K, and 360° videos, as well as YCbCr 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 with 8–10 bits per component, HDR, variable and fractional frame rates from 0 to 120 Hz, and more.
FFmpeg added experimental VVC decoding support since the last 7.0 version. Now, the decoder goes official and it’s compatible with DVB test content. The release also supports for decoding VVC with Intel Quick Sync Video acceleration. As well, it supports encoding VVC using libvvenc library.
FFmpeg media library is now at version 8.1! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 26.04, Linux Mint 21/22 from PPA.
The new FFmpeg 8.0 version of this popular multi-media library came with name “Huffman”. It features native decoders for Samsung’s Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec, Apple’s ProRes RAW, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, RealVideo 6.0, G.728, and ADPCM IMA Xbox.
It also added encoding support for APV (via libopenapv wrapper), libx265 alpha layer, and animated JPEG XL images (through libjxl), as well as Vulkan compute-based codecs support for FFv1 (encoding and decoding) and ProRes RAW (decode only).
FFmpeg multi-media library updated to version 6.1, code-name “Heaviside”, few days ago!
According to the FFmpeg release page, the new 6.1 release features new libaribcaption decoder, RivaTuner video decoder, Playdate video decoder and demuxer, vMix video decoder, OSQ demuxer and decoder, as well as Microsoft RLE video encoder and VAAPI AV1 encoder.
The release also includes some new filters, including arls filter, afireqsrc audio source filter, color_vulkan filter, bwdif_vulkan filter, nlmeans_vulkan filter, zoneplate video source filter, xfade_vulkan filter, apsnr and asisdr audio filters, bwdif_cuda filter.
Other changes include:
NOTE: FFmpeg is an important media library that many apps depend on it. Install newer FFmpeg in Ubuntu may cause dependency issues (or even break your system). Use it at your own risk!!
I’ve made the new release package into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS only, with x86_64, and 32/64-bit Arm architectures support.
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/ffmpeg6
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. For Linux Mint 21, you need to manually refresh package cache after adding PPA. To do so, run command:
sudo apt update
3. Finally, run the command below to either install or upgrade to FFmpeg 6.1:
sudo apt install ffmpeg
In case of in-complete installation, it’s HIGHLY recommend to run sudo apt upgrade to update all the packages to the latest versions.
4. After installation, run the command below in terminal to verify:
ffmpeg --version
In case you want to downgrade the FFmpeg library to the stock version available in system repository. Open terminal and run command:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/ffmpeg6
NOTE: Keep an eye in terminal output before answering yes to confirm! It MAY remove some other useful app packages, though it should be able to install them back later.
