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FFmpeg Develops Vulkan Hardware Acceleration For Apple ProRes RAW Codec


The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release continues to increase in excitement with this weekend Vulkan hardware acceleration for Apple's ProRes RAW codec being merged.

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release continues to increase in excitement with this weekend Vulkan hardware acceleration for Apple's ProRes RAW codec being merged. FFmpeg developer Lynne continues to be quite impressive with expanding the Vulkan capabilities of this widely-used, open-source multimedia library. There has been a FFV1 Vulkan decoder merged earlier this year, among other improvements, while merged this weekend was leveraging the Vulkan API to accelerate hardware decoding of Apple ProRes RAW content.

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