FFmpeg is way cooler than it sounds.

Version 8.0 'Huffman' of the multimedia framework FFmpeg was released on August 22, 2025. This version adds the Whisper filter, an open-source AI speech recognition model, enabling automatic speech ...

Developers Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and Jason Garret-Glaser are creating a native VP8 video codec implementation for the open source FFmpeg project. The aim of this effort is to bring first-class ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

FFmpeg turned 4.0 a few weeks ago, an event I planned to leave unheralded until I read Tim Siglin’s latest research report entitled “Real-World HEVC Insights: Adoption, Implications, and Workflows.” ...

While 2018 was the year AV1 became known, 2020 will be the year that AV1 became interesting, primarily because of three developments. First, in early 2020, AV1-enabled smart TVs hit the market, right ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

FFmpeg ' has integrated a low-latency streaming function compatible with ' WebRTC ' (WHIP), enabling real-time video and data communication between browsers and apps. WHIP is a standard protocol for ...

Open source software developers are building a native VP8 video codec implementation for the FFmpeg project. Their goal: a decoder with better performance than Google's own.