Developers Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and Jason Garret-Glaser are creating a native VP8 video codec implementation for the open source FFmpeg project. The aim of this effort is to bring first-class ...
FFmpeg turned 4.0 a few weeks ago, an event I planned to leave unheralded until I read Tim Siglin’s latest research report entitled “Real-World HEVC Insights: Adoption, Implications, and Workflows.” ...
Version 8.0 'Huffman' of the multimedia framework FFmpeg was released on August 22, 2025. This version adds the Whisper filter, an open-source AI speech recognition model, enabling automatic speech ...
Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...
While 2018 was the year AV1 became known, 2020 will be the year that AV1 became interesting, primarily because of three developments. First, in early 2020, AV1-enabled smart TVs hit the market, right ...
When you want to decode, encode, transcode, mix, demix, stream, filter, and play, then FFmpeg is probably the best tool for the job, and it’s available for Windows 10 as a free download. However, it ...