The popular open-source multimedia framework FFmpeg released version 6.0 codenamed Von Neumann.
FFmpeg is open-source free software that performs recording, conversion, and streaming of audio and video in multiple formats, and includes libavcodec, a library of decoders for audio and video in multiple projects, and libavformat — an audio and video format conversion library. The “FF” in the word “FFmpeg” means “Fast Forward”. FFmpeg is widely used by multimedia applications, including the popular video player VLC.
Major changes in FFmpeg 6.0 include support for AV1 hardware decoding on Intel, Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. In addition, FFmpeg 6.0 will introduce multi-threading support for the FFmpeg command line, optimize the RISC-V architecture and API, and more.
Other new features in FFmpeg 6.0 include new decoders Bonk, APAC, Mi-SC4, 100i, VQC, FTR, etc.
