Media player general framework FFmpeg 6.0 released and downloaded, greatly optimized AV1 hardware decoding performance

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Coje_He and imisaka for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, February 28 (Xinhua)-- FFmpeg, a popular open source multimedia framework, has released version 6.0 codenamed Von Neumann.

CTOnews.com Note: FFmpeg is an open source free software that can perform audio and video recording, conversion, and streaming functions in multiple formats, including libavcodec--, a decoder library for audio and video in multiple projects, and libavformat--, an audio and video format conversion library. The word "FFmpeg" means "Fast Forward". FFmpeg is widely used in multimedia applications, including the popular video player VLC.

Major changes in FFmpeg 6.0include support for AV1 hardware decoding on Intel, Nvidia, and AMD graphics cards. In addition, FFmpeg 6.0will introduce multithreading support for the FFmpeg command line, optimize RISC-V architecture and API, and so on.

The new features of FFmpeg 6.0also include new decoders Bonk, APAC, Mi-SC4, 100i, VQC, FTR and so on.

FFmpeg 6. 0: click here to download