{"id":49397,"date":"2025-07-31T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49397"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:34:10","slug":"ffmpeg-8-0-expected-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/ffmpeg-8-0-expected-august\/","title":{"rendered":"FFmpeg 8.0 Expected to Be Available in Next Weeks in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

Michael Niedermayer, the project lead announced<\/a> in last week:<\/p>\n

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.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Meaning if everything goes well, FFmpeg 8.0 is going to be released in next 2 ~ 4 weeks (in August) from the announced date.<\/p>\n

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What’s New in FFmpeg 8.0<\/h3>\n

The full changes for the new release is not ready yet, but according to the current changlog file<\/a>, FFmpeg 8.0 will include following new features.<\/p>\n

First, it improves VVC (aka H.266)<\/b> decoding by supporting VAAPI hardware acceleration, as well as all content of SCC (Screen Content Coding), including IBC (Inter Block Copy), Palette Mode and ACT (Adaptive Color Transform).<\/p>\n

It also adds encoding (through libopenapv wrapper) and decoding support of Samsung’s Advanced Professional Video (APV)<\/b> codec, as well as APV raw bitstream muxing and demuxing.<\/p>\n

There are also decoding support<\/i> of RealVideo 6.0 video codec, and G.728, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, ADPCM IMA Xbox audio codec, encoding support<\/i> of libx265 alpha layer, and animated JPEG XL images (through libjxl), as well as both decoding and encoding of Hwawei’s OpenHarmony hardware.<\/p>\n

Other changes include:<\/p>\n