After five months of development, the multimedia package FFMPEG 7.0 is now available. FFMPEG includes a set of applications and a collection of libraries for operations on various multimedia formats such as recording, converting, and decoding sound and video formats. The package is distributed under LGPL and GPL licenses, and the development of FFMPEG is closely related to the project mplayer.
Some of the changes added in ffmpeg 7.0 include:
- Improved parallel performance in the FFMPEG command line utility for unpacking/packaging media conflicts, decoding, encoding, and using filters.
- Added support for coding and decoding video in MPEG-5 format (EVC – Essential Video Coding) using the external library libxevd.
- Added unpackers and packagers of media conflicts for the QoA (Quite Ok Audio) format, which is used to transmit sound without loss of quality and is claimed to have faster decoding than OGG-Vorbis.
- Added unpackers and packagers of media conflicts for IAMF format (Immersive Audio Model and Format), which determines the container for the spread of volumetric sound and supports the transmission of additional information necessary for reconstructing sound scenes and mixing sound signals in three-dimensional space.
- Added experimental decoder for VVC format (Versatile Video Coding), also known as the H.266 video compression standard, which provides high efficiency in transmitting and storing all screen resolutions, supports HDR video, and panoramic video in 360 degrees mode.
- Enabled the use of the API D3D12VA (Direct 3D 12 Video Encoding) for hardware acceleration of decoding formats such as H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, MPEG-2, and VC1.
- Supported hardware acceleration of decoding in FFPLAY by using the API Vulkan and libplacebo.
- Added support for the concente uri protocol used in the Android platform.
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