FFmpeg 9.0
04 AUG 2026 VIDEOLAN 13 min read FFmpeg 9.0 FFmpeg 9.0: swscale, Vulkan, WebP, asm and a big cleanup FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” is out. FFmpeg needs no introduction: it is the engine room of everything multimedia, from every player to every transcoding workflow, and VLC uses libavcodec and libavformat heavily. The FFmpeg and VideoLAN communities have always been close and share quite a few developers, often meeting at FOSDEM and VDD.
- ▪04 AUG 2026 VIDEOLAN 13 min read FFmpeg 9.0 FFmpeg 9.0: swscale, Vulkan, WebP, asm and a big cleanup FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” is out.
- ▪FFmpeg needs no introduction: it is the engine room of everything multimedia, from every player to every transcoding workflow, and VLC uses libavcodec and libavformat heavily.
- ▪The FFmpeg and VideoLAN communities have always been close and share quite a few developers, often meeting at FOSDEM and VDD.
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| Original publisher | Jean-Baptiste Kempf |
| Canonical URL | https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/ffmpeg-9.0/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:49:50 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T15:20:47.162Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T15:20:47.162Z |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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04 AUG 2026 VIDEOLAN 13 min read FFmpeg 9.0 FFmpeg 9.0: swscale, Vulkan, WebP, asm and a big cleanup FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” is out. FFmpeg needs no introduction: it is the engine room of everything multimedia, from every player to every transcoding workflow, and VLC uses libavcodec and libavformat heavily. The FFmpeg and VideoLAN communities have always been close and share quite a few developers, often meeting at FOSDEM and VDD. FFmpeg 9.0 is a major release. It comes four and a half months after 8.1 “Hoare”, with more than 2200 commits from over 160 authors, touching 1781 files, adding almost 85000 lines and deleting more than 33000.
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