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 ...

Anytime you start working with a new codec, there are some fundamental tests that you should run to achieve optimal performance/quality optimization. In this article, I’ll take you through those tests ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Users of DaVinci Resolve (DR for short) have been asking for more output codecs and more control over the existing ones for years. While Blackmagic has added quite a few over time, you still don’t get ...

Version 7.0 (codename: Dijkstra) of the multimedia framework ' FFmpeg ' was released on April 5, 2024. FFmpeg 7.0 includes changes such as 'adding a native VVC decoder,' 'supporting IAMF,' ...

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 ...

FFMPEG is a free command-line utility that serves as the engine for most of the largest cloud encoding farms in the world, public and private. But it also performs many simple and essential tasks that ...

NVIDIA has added support to the open-source FFmpeg multimedia library to allow for the advantages of accelerated AV1 video encoding for compatible GPUs through the VDPAU API while utilizing the ...

The most noteworthy changes for most users are a native VVC decoder ... It can be argued that this is not a useful change, but instead a backwards step. Why promote the use of the VVC (aka H.266) ...

Research from JFrog into the software supply chain vulnerability points to the need for better visibility into applications, including SBOMs. A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the FFmpeg ...