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FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video

Written by Michael Larabel in Multimedia on 20 May 2026 at 06:25 AM EDT. 9 Comments
FFmpeg already supports CPU-based decoding for Samsung's APV as the Advanced Professional Video Codec. FFmpeg also has APV encode support too while now an interesting addition was merged this week: Vulkan-based acceleration for APV.

For those making use of Samsung's APV for visually lossless video coding as an alternative to Apple ProRes, FFmpeg developer Lynne has managed to implement APV Vulkan-accelerated support using shaders in a similar manner to some of the other codecs without formal Vulkan Video extensions that FFmpeg has been working on accelerated operations around. It was just a few days ago as well that Lynne managed Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan acceleration in FFmpeg Git.

This commit yesterday to FFmpeg introduced the Vulkan decode hardware acceleration for the APV format.

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Separately, another developer also landed support in FFmpeg on Tuesday for animated WebP decoding support as another noteworthy addition.

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