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FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs
is released today: a major release with numerous features that nevertheless maintains API compatibility with 7.0. it features a full native VVC decoder, a new MV-HEVC decoder, a new LC-EVC decoder, a new xHE-AAC decoder, it finishes the IAMF decoder and it also adds Vulkan hardware encoding, VVC encoding, ARM64 and RISC-V optimizations and other hardware accelerations.
Lynne spent a large part of her past year to work on a native xHE-AAC decoder. To finish on the audio side of things, support for LC3, the Low Complexity codec from Google, was also wired through the official external library. A method for YUV colorspace negotiation for codecs and filters was added in this release to fix this problem.
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