VOOZH about

URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeRDP-3.25-Released

⇱ FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support - Phoronix

👁 Phoronix

FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 23 April 2026 at 05:56 AM EDT. 7 Comments
FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has introduced experimental AV1 codec support.

FreeRDP 3.25 is out today and with this new release there is experimental AV1 upport when using FreeRDP-based servers. This merge last month added the extension for being able to use the AV1 codec with RDP. Encoding and decoding is done with the AOMedia library. Hardware-accelerated AV1 support doesn't appear to be yet in place.

👁 FreeRDP example


FreeRDP 3.25 also brings support for FIDO2 redirection (MS-RDPEWA), UI improvements to the client, enhanced SDL3 client drawing performance, console output support for SDL3, Smartcard KSP support, and RDP proxy enhancements.

Downloads and more details on today's FreeRDP 3.25 feature release via GitHub.

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.