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FFmpeg 8.1

267 points by gyan

by wei03288

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The FATE regression test suite improvements are the part I'm most interested in here. FFmpeg's test coverage has historically been pretty sparse for edge cases — things like seeking in fragmented MP4s or specific codec interactions. More automated regression testing means fewer 'works on my machine' surprises when upgrading between versions in CI pipelines. The new filter graph syntax changes are going to break some scripts though; already saw a few people in the issue tracker hit the deprecated options.

by edgarvaldes

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One of the best open-source tools out there. I'm a frequent user of Plex, Jellyfin, Tunarr, local music files, etc. I use it weekly to extract subtitles, trim videos, convert music formats, and remove audio tracks. After writing the previous paragraph, I realized I've never donated to the project; it's time to change that.

by gyan

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by ghgr

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> Oh there's a new version of ffmpeg, I'll just quickly build it from source... no I can't wait I'll download the binary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM

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by pandaforce

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Khronos published a post on the Vulkan compute codecs in FFmpeg: https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-wit...

by shevy-java

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FFmpeg is really great. The only wish I'd have is for the usage to become simpler - both for regular stuff, but also for advanced filtering.
If anyone remembers, avisynth was pretty cool back in the days. You could kind of script video/audio manipulations, a bit like a UNIX/Linux pipe, but kind of simpler, in my opinion. FFmpeg allows for many similar operations, but remembering anything here is ... hard. I'd love for the whole usage API to become much simpler, but it seems nobody among the ffmpeg dev team is considering this. :(
I can't be the only one with that wish though ...
It does not diminish ffmpeg being so great in general, but I think it could be better.

by brcmthrowaway

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by megous

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I wouldn't get too excited about rockchip hw encoding. It's rkmpp based, not an upstream solution. You'd need Rockchip kernel for this, I guess.

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by junelee77

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