Looking forward to try it! I'll take a look at it while I'm dealing with the Vulkan drivers, would be great to have some actual input :D On 24. 3. 2026. 12:41, Xavier Antoviaque wrote:
Hi Milos,
You might have already seen this, but FFmpeg 8.1 has been released and has some useful news for us it seems:
March 16th, 2026, FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare"
A new minor release, FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare" <https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#release_8.1>, is now available for download. Here are some of the highlights:
* Decoders: xHE-AAC Mps212 (experimental) MPEG-H decoding via libmpeghdec * EXIF Metadata Parsing * LCEVC: support for parsing and forwarding metadata * Vulkan compute-based codecs: ProRes encoding and decoding, DPX decoding * D3D12: D3D12 H.264/AV1 encoding, scale_d3d12, mestimate_d3d12, deinterlace_d3d12 filters * /*Rockchip H.264/HEVC hardware encoding*/ * IAMF: Projection mode Ambisonic Audio Elements muxing and demuxing * Formats: hxvs demuxer * Filters: drawvg, vpp_amf
This release features a lot of internal changes and bugfixes. The groundwork for the upcoming swscale rewrite is progressing. The Vulkan compute-based codecs, and a few filters, no longer depend on runtime GLSL compilation, which speeds up their initialization.
A companion post about the Vulkan Compute-based codec implementations has been published on the Khronos blog <https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute-shaders-in-ffmpeg>, featuring technical details on the implementations and future plans.
We recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.
https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1
See also https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute...
-- Xavier Whitebox.aero <https://whitebox.aero/>