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FFmpeg swscale Rewrite Begins Landing With 2.6x Faster Overall, As Much As 254x


Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release

FFmpeg developer Niklas Haas has spent the past few months working on a new framework around swscale. This code also adds a new "--enable-unstable" build-time option for including "unstable" features for FFmpeg. This is initially used for allowing the disabling of the currently-experimental swscale but could also be expanded to cover experimental codecs and other features moving forward.

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