FFmpeg 9.1 Is Almost Here With an APV Vulkan Encoder and GPU Frame Interpolation

FFmpeg 9.1 is in its release process, Phoronix reports, and the Vulkan work keeps coming.

Highlights

• A Vulkan encoder for APV, the royalty-free Advanced Professional Video codec, plus H.265 Vulkan encode optimizations.
• vf_fruc_vulkan, an optical-flow frame rate up-conversion filter.
• A much-improved AAC encoder, H.264 data partitioning, ASTC image support, xHE-AAC encoding via libfdk-xhe-aac, and an iTerm2 inline image muxer.

My take

Vulkan everywhere means GPU acceleration that isn’t tied to one vendor’s stack. That’s good news for anyone transcoding on Linux.

Use the Source!

References & Further Reading

• FFmpeg 9.1 preps for release (Phoronix)
• FFmpeg