FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare" Released with Vulkan Compute Improvements and Bug Fixes
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Summary
FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare" has been released as a new minor version of the popular multimedia framework. The release focuses on internal changes and bug fixes, with significant progress on the upcoming swscale rewrite. A key improvement is that Vulkan compute-based codecs and some filters no longer depend on runtime GLSL compilation, which speeds up their initialization. The release announcement also mentions a companion post about Vulkan Compute-based codec implementations published on the Khr platform.
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This release features a lot of internal changes and bugfixes. The groundwork for the upcoming swscale rewrite is progressing.
The Vulkan compute-based codecs, and a few filters, no longer depend on runtime GLSL compilation, which speeds up their initialization.
A companion post about the Vulkan Compute-based codec implementations has been published on the Khr
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