FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.… At the start of the week, the FFmpeg project released ...

FFmpeg 8.1 (codename: Hoare), the 8.1st version of the open-source multimedia framework FFmpeg, was released as a stable version on March 16, 2026. This release follows version 8.0, which was released ...

Another great update for FFmpeg.

This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...

Microsoft has improved video encoding on Windows 11 24H2 with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding thanks to WDDM 3.2. Microsoft's next big feature update, Windows 11 version 24H2, is currently already ...

Building a PC for video editing used to be a case of just throwing CPU grunt and sticks of RAM at the problem. If you kept ...