While it was supposed to ship back in H1’2023, FFmpeg 6.1 finally released last night as the newest feature update to this widely-used multimedia library.

FFmpeg 6.1 is running a half year behind schedule to the “constant activity in the repository”, but in any event they have now released FFmpeg 6.1. FFmpeg 6.1 will be succeeded by FFmpeg 7.0 with a tentative release plan for February.

The FFmpeg 6.1 release does bring some exciting additions such as Vulkan Video accelerated decoding for AV1 / HEVC / H.264, various new Vulkan accelerated filters, VA-API AV1 encoding, a Microsoft RLE video encoder, a vMix video decoder, and a variety of other enhancements.

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