"At the start of the week, the FFmpeg project released its eighth major version. It's codenamed "Huffman" after the Huffman code algorithm, which was invented in 1952, making it one of the oldest lossless compression algorithms. We last looked at FFmpeg version 6.1 in late 2023, in case you need to refresh your memory for what it is and does. Since then, there was 7.0 last April and 7.1 in September, but after an unusually long interval, this is the first release of 2025."
"This release uses the Vulkan API to do some hardware acceleration of some of its codecs. This includes some FOSS formats, such as encoding AV1 format, and both encoding and decoding FFv1 and the WebM group's VP9 format. It also supports Apple's ProRes RAW. It can handle AV1 files even if they use common encryption (CENC), and supports all types of SCC screen content coding."
FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed Huffman, is the project's eighth major release and the first release of 2025 after versions 7.0 and 7.1. The changelog lists 30 significant changes. The top feature integrates whisper.cpp, Georgi Gerganov's local offline implementation of OpenAI's Whisper, enabling automatic local subtitling of videos. The release uses the Vulkan API for GPU-accelerated handling of codecs, including AV1 encoding, FFv1 and VP9 encoding/decoding, and ProRes RAW support. It can handle AV1 with common encryption (CENC) and supports SCC screen content coding. FFmpeg now supports VVC.
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