FFmpeg in the news

1. Sep 229to5Linux: VideoLAN releases VLC 3.0.24 with FFmpeg 8.1 and APV decoder support
2. Sep 18NVIDIA: NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution users request AI frame interpolation features
3. Sep 13Medium: Android lacks native MP3 encoding despite 2017 patent expirations
4. Sep 13Content+Technology: MC-IF and Ittiam Systems launch open-source VVC software decoder initiative
5. Sep 7FFmpeg Micro: Apple AVFoundation requires hvc1 tag for HEVC MP4 playback
6. Sep 1Korben.info: FFmpeg adds fruc_vulkan filter for real-time frame rate doubling on NVIDIA GPUs
7. Aug 27AISLE: AISLE discovers six high and critical severity CVEs in FFmpeg
8. Aug 26freenode: FFmpeg patch adds H.264 MVC decoding for Blu-ray 3D multiview
9. Aug 19Digital Production: Gizmify Studios adds nonlinear editing to Autodesk Maya via Media Plane
10. Aug 19The Hacker Wire: FFmpeg patches critical RIST protocol heap buffer overflow vulnerability

    Also covered by: Cyber Press

11. Aug 8GitLab: GitLab snippet details production-grade CI/CD pipeline for IPTV quality assurance
12. Aug 5FOSS Linux: FFmpeg 9.0 launches with Vulkan hardware acceleration for AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel

    Also covered by: daily.dev, pub.dev, UbuntuHandbook

13. Aug 49to5Linux: FFmpeg 9.0 launches with LCEVC track muxing and APV Vulkan acceleration

    Also covered by: Linuxiac

14. Aug 3YouTube: Developer builds AI video dubbing platform using FastAPI and Celery
15. Jul 28GitHub: MediaMTX regression breaks AV1 RTMP-to-RTSP ingestion since version 1.16.0
16. Jul 28Cyber Press: FFmpeg patches six high-severity vulnerabilities affecting versions up to 8.1.2

    Also covered by: GBHackers

17. Jul 22NVIDIA: NVIDIA CloudXR 6.2 HEVC encoding fails on Apple Vision Pro
18. Jul 22Phoronix: AMD EPYC Turin benchmarks show performance gains on Linux 7.2
19. Jul 20Tech Times: MPEG-4 Visual patents expire globally as final Brazilian holdout lapses
20. Jul 14Medium: Implementing trick-play thumbnails with FFmpeg sprite sheets and WebVTT
21. Jul 11YouTube: Advanced x265 tuning improves high-grain video quality over AV1 standards
22. Jul 7Linuxiac: Rust-based Frame GUI launches to simplify complex FFmpeg media workflows
23. Jul 5Linuxize: FFmpeg implementation guide targets H.264 and H.265 streaming optimization
24. Jun 299to5linux: Kodi 22 beta integrates FFmpeg 8.1.2 and broadens Linux HDR support
25. Jun 25ffmpeg: FFmpeg libavfilter docs detail multi-input filtergraph construction syntax
26. Jun 25NetActuate: NetActuate deploys NETINT VPUs for hardware-accelerated C-band to IP migration
27. Jun 23SecurityWeek: Critical FFmpeg ‘PixelSmash’ flaw enables remote code execution via poisoned media
28. Jun 21Lapaas Voice: VLC founder launches Kyber with $5M to tackle robotics latency
29. Jun 18Ffmpeg: FFmpeg 8.1.2 arrives with critical bug fixes for stable Hoare branch
30. Jun 16Hostinger: Hostinger launches one-click Docker deployment for distributed Tdarr media transcoding
31. Jun 11Medium: Developer unbundles AWS video services with custom FFmpeg transcoding platform
32. Jun 10Topaz Community: AI video enhancement workflows shift toward 'Golden Original' mezzanine files
33. Jun 10Ffmpeg: FFmpeg's FFplay expands as critical testing utility with Vulkan renderer support
34. Jun 10OTNet: OTNet launches local video encoder to bypass cloud transcoding fees
35. Jun 9Ffmpeg: FFmpeg Documents ffplay: A Key Tool for API Testing and Development
36. Jun 8The Times of India: Meet the invisible architect behind the world's massive video processing infrastructure
37. Jun 8Cyber Security News: Critical FFmpeg zero-click RCE vulnerabilities found by autonomous security agent
38. Jun 7OMG! Ubuntu: HandBrake 1.11.2 Fixes 2-Pass Encoding, Improves WebM Integration

    Also covered by: OMG! Ubuntu, Linuxiac, 9to5Linux

39. Jun 7GitHub: Linux Matters Releases ffmpeg-statigo for Go: Static FFmpeg with Hardware Acceleration
40. Jun 7Ffmpeg: FFmpeg Documents Extensive Protocol Support, Including Advanced Streaming Options
41. Jun 6TNW | Artificial-Intelligence: AI Agent Finds 21 FFmpeg Zero-Days for $1,000, Intensifying Patch Pace
42. Jun 6The Hacker News: AI Agent Finds 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches 429 Bugs
43. Jun 5Lib.rs: Rust-based `viser` Crate Unifies Video Encoding Optimization Workflows
44. May 28Murat Demirci: Intel Media Transport Library (MTL) for ST 2110: Software-Based Media Transport with FFmpeg and OBS - Murat Demirci
45. May 27Jan Ozer: Codec and Encoding Roundup: MoQ, Machine Vision, and AI Tensor Codecs
46. May 26DisclosedForeclosure: FFmpeg Speed Modification Issues on YouTube
47. May 20Murat Demirci: FFmpeg and GStreamer: Where to Use Which, and When to Run Both - Murat Demirci
48. May 17Medium: What building a video transcoding pipeline taught me about PHP memory, cloud storage, and the assumptions that will kill your production server | by Agnamare | May, 2026 | Medium
49. May 6Lex Fridman: Transcript for FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496 - Lex Fridman
50. May 6Lex Fridman: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast
51. Mar 28Yuvashree Dhanasekaren: Progress Update: Diving Deeper Into YouTube Video Translation
52. Mar 23Successful-Cook7795: Simplifying Video Workflows: FFmpeg-WASM and YouTube-DL Nodes for n8n
53. Mar 18Luis Oria Seidel: Cloud Video Processing: IVI's Experience in Scalability and Efficiency
54. Mar 3Streaming Learning Center: The Next Big Feature in Live Streaming: VMAF-Driven Bitrate Control
55. Mar 2Engineering at Meta: FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale - Engineering at Meta
56. Feb 18L2Tek: Simple SDI to ST2110 Converter Using Dektec DTA-2110 and DTA-2178 PCie add-in Cards - L2Tek
57. Jan 29Broadcast Beat: VisualOn and The Channel Store Demonstrate Up to 65% Bitrate Savings with AI-Driven Content-Adaptive Encoding
58. Jan 20Grok: FFmpeg Excels in Low-Overhead 1080p Streaming Against Industry Rivals
59. Jan 12Vikas Vaviya: ⚙️ FFmpeg: Still One of the Most Useful Tools in a Video Pipeline
60. Jan 12Anita Flejter, EMBA, MSBA: The Hardware Is Only Half the Story: Deployment Speed Depends on Software
61. Jan 12Kenneth Robinson: The Hardware Is Only Half the Story: Deployment Speed Depends on Software Path
62. Dec 27NETINT Technologies: Everyone Assumes FFmpeg Is the Default Foundation for Video Infrastructure
63. Dec 11Streaming Learning Center: Deep Render and the Streaming Learning Center: A Sustained Visibility and Validation Campaign
64. Nov 12WebProNews: FFmpeg’s Bug Battle with Google: Volunteers vs. AI Goliaths
65. Dec 14Alien Pastures: FFmpeg 0.9 streamlines audio synchronization via new command-line offset parameters
66. Jun 3Mediabistro: Nerdleveltech Hiring Engineer to Advance Low-Latency AV1/VVC Streaming
67. Jun 3Adobe: Adobe users demand CRF quality control for H.264/H.265 video export
68. Jun 1GitHub: GitHub - superuser404notfound/AetherEngine: Video player engine for iOS, tvOS and macOS. FFmpeg demux, VideoToolbox / dav1d / libavcodec decode (HEVC, H.264, AV1, VP9, VP8, MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-2, VC-1), Dolby Atmos passthrough, HDR10 / HDR10+ / Dolby Vision / HLG with HDR→SDR tonemap, inline text + bitmap subtitle decode. You ship the UI. · GitHub
69. Jun 1Video API Hub: Video API Hub | Automate Video Creation at Scale
70. Jun 1Mediabunny: @mediabunny/server | Mediabunny
71. Jun 1Fileflows: Version History | FileFlows
72. Jun 1VideoHelp: Showing all Video Encoders (H264/H265/MP4/MKV) software
73. May 29FFmpeg: ffmpeg Documentation
74. May 28NXON AI: NXON AI | Camera ODM for Secure Edge AI & Smart Surveillance
75. May 26GitHub: GitHub - Talktodre-ops/Cinder: Fast, hardware-accelerated screen recorder and editor for Windows (and beyond). MIT fork of OpenScreen. · GitHub
76. May 25GitHub: GitHub - ParthGanatra/agent-skills: Claude Code agent skills. Includes youtube-summary: a YouTube video summarizer that writes structured notes (TL;DR, takeaways, chapters) with optional slide extraction. · GitHub
77. May 14GitHub: GitHub - Eyevinn/hi264: Pure Go H.264/AVC decoder and bitstream generator · GitHub
78. Apr 7GitHub: feat(core): Add NVENC Encoding Support via VA-API by efortin · Pull Request #427 · elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver · GitHub
79. Apr 7GitHub: Release 10.11.7 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
80. Mar 20YouTube: Compress 4K Video WITHOUT Losing Quality - FFmpeg Tutorial

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