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FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs


Merged this week to FFmpeg Git for this widely-used open-source multimedia library are a number of NVIDIA video encoding 'NVENC' improvements for benefiting the new GeForce RTX 50 'Blackwell' graphics processors.

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