FFmpeg 6.1 “Heaviside” Released With VAAPI AV1 Encoder
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FFmpeg 6.1 “Heaviside” Released With VAAPI AV1 Encoder, HW Vulkan Decoding

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Marius Nestor
Nov 13, 2023

Coming more than eight months after FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann”, the FFmpeg 6.1 release is dubbed “Heaviside” and introduces multi-threaded Vulkan-powered hardware accelerated decoding supporting H264, HEVC, and AV1 codecs, as well as a VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) AV1 encoder.
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