FFmpeg 9.0 Released With More Vulkan Acceleration, Animated WebP & More AMD AMF

FFmpeg 9.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this widely used, open-source multimedia library. FFmpeg 9.0 contains a lot of great improvements including more Vulkan API acceleration work like Vulkan APV video decoding and Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan acceleration, the Vulkan v360 video filter, HE-AAC 960 decoding, a transpose NVIDIA CUDA filter, animated WebP decoding and demuxing, continued AMD AMF enhancements, more AVX-512 optimizations, and more. The official FFmpeg change-log notes the version 9.0 highlights as: "version 9.0: - Extend AMF Color Converter (vf_vpp_amf) HDR capabilities - LCEVC track muxing support in MP4 muxer - Playdate video encoder and muxer - Add v360_vulkan filter - HE-AAC 960 decoding (DAB+) - transpose_cuda filter - Add AMF Frame Rate Converter (vf_frc_amf) filter - SMPTE 2094-50 metadata support and passthrough - ProRes RAW VideoToolbox hwaccel - APV Vulkan hwaccel - Animated WebP decoder - Animated WebP demuxer - Remove CELT decoding support (doesn't affect Opus CELT) - Remove ogg/celt parsing - Bitstream filter to split Dolby Vision multi-layer HEVC - Add AMF hardware memory mapping support. - ONNX Runtime DNN backend with GPU execution provider support - Remove deprecated NVENC options and support for pre-11.1 SDK versions - Add AMF Video Quality Enhancer (vf_vqe_amf) filter" Those building from source can go forth and compile FFmpeg 9.0 for these latest multimedia library capabilities.