FFmpeg 8.1 has been released today as a minor update to this open-source multimedia framework that introduces new decoders, encoders, filters, as well as various improvements.

Coming almost seven months after FFmpeg 8.0, the FFmpeg 8.1 release introduces D3D12 H.264 and AV1 encoding, support for parsing and forwarding metadata for LCEVC, and an experimental xHE-AAC Mps212 MPEG-H decoder via the libmpeghdec library.

FFmpeg 8.1 also introduces EXIF metadata parsing support, Vulkan-based ProRes encoding and decoding, and DPX decoding, Rockchip H.264/HEVC hardware encoding, an HXVS demuxer for HXVS/HXVT IP camera format, as well as projection mode Ambisonic Audio Elements muxing and demuxing.