Libav Linux & Open-Source News |
| libavif 1.4 Released For Advancing AVIF Image Support | Free Software | 2026-03-05 |
| AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End | Multimedia | 2025-09-15 |
| FFmpeg Merges Decoder For Samsung's APV - Advanced Professional Video Codec | Multimedia | 2025-04-27 |
| FFmpeg AV1 Vulkan Encoder Patch Posted | Multimedia | 2025-04-19 |
| FFmpeg Lands AES-NI Optimized Implementation For Big Speed-Up | Multimedia | 2025-04-07 |
| GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg | GNOME | 2025-02-07 |
| FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling | Radeon | 2025-02-04 |
| New AVX2 Code Helps FFmpeg With VVC Decoding Performance | Multimedia | 2024-08-31 |
| libavif 1.1 Released For Improving AVIF Image Encoding | Free Software | 2024-07-12 |
| Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations | Multimedia | 2023-09-01 |
| libavif 1.0 Released With Stable ABI, Experimental AV2 Support | Free Software | 2023-08-28 |
| OpenCV 4.8 Released With TensorFlow Lite Model Support, AVIF Image Handling | AI | 2023-06-29 |
| Experimental AV2 Support Added To AVIF Image Encoder | Free Software | 2023-05-05 |
| Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains | Clear Linux | 2022-01-30 |
| FFmpeg 5.0 Aims To Be An LTS Release | Multimedia | 2022-01-17 |
| Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-02-28 |
| KDE Sees New Features, Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas | KDE | 2020-12-19 |
| Linux's Stateless H.264 Decode Interface Ready To Be Deemed Stable | Multimedia | 2020-11-17 |
| NihAV Is An Experimental Multimedia Framework Written In Rust | Multimedia | 2020-08-09 |
| HandBrake 1.2 Released: Switches Over To FFmpeg, Early Support For GTK4 | Free Software | 2018-12-19 |
| Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Updated With New Kernel, Startup Wizard Improvements | Raspberry Pi | 2018-10-11 |
| FFmpeg Received Support For Performing More Operations In OpenCL | Multimedia | 2018-08-29 |
| OpenShot 2.4.2 Released For Many Improvements To This Open-Source Linux Video Editor | Multimedia | 2018-06-30 |
| FFmpeg Lands NVDEC-Accelerated H.264 Decoding | Multimedia | 2017-11-11 |
| AC3 Codec Coming For Fedora 26 | Fedora | 2017-03-22 |
| Libav Now Supports VA-API VP8 & MPEG2 Encode, Other Improvements | Multimedia | 2017-01-31 |
| GStreamer 1.11.1 Released | Multimedia | 2017-01-12 |
| Libav Now Supports VA-API HEVC Accelerated Decoding | Intel | 2016-12-19 |
| GStreamer Components See Their First 1.9 Unstable Release | GNOME | 2016-07-06 |
| Libav Gets An OpenH264 Decoder Wrapper | Multimedia | 2016-06-28 |
| Libav Adds H.264 & MPEG4 Encoders Using OpenMAX IL | Multimedia | 2016-04-13 |
| Libav's libavcodec Adds New VA-API Encoders | Multimedia | 2016-03-30 |
| Libav Finally Lands VDPAU Support For Accelerated HEVC Decoding | Multimedia | 2016-02-13 |
| Firefox Enables FFmpeg Support By Default | Mozilla | 2015-11-15 |
| Libav Lands Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 Encoder | Multimedia | 2015-10-23 |
| FFmpeg Adds VA-API HEVC/H.265 Hardware Acceleration Support | Intel | 2015-08-27 |
| GStreamer 1.6 Is Chugging Along, Nearing Release | GNOME | 2015-08-24 |
| FFmpeg's Leader Resigns, Hopes To Make Libav Developers Come Back | Multimedia | 2015-07-31 |
| Libav & FFmpeg Add New Libmfx-based Decoders For H.265 + MPEG2 | Intel | 2015-07-26 |
| FFmpeg Is Returning To Debian | Debian | 2015-07-08 |
| Libav Adds H.264 & HEVC Encoders For NVIDIA's NVENC | NVIDIA | 2015-05-31 |
| Allwinner Continues Jerking Around The Open-Source Community | Hardware | 2015-03-25 |
| FFmpeg Enables H.265 Encoding For New NVIDIA GPUs | Multimedia | 2015-03-25 |
| Allwinner Caught Obfuscating Their Improperly Licensed Code | Hardware | 2015-03-19 |
| Wine-Staging 1.7.38 Adds Job Object Support, Improved DXVA2 | WINE | 2015-03-08 |
| Libav Adds OpenH264 Encoder Support: Good Performance, BSD Licensed | Multimedia | 2015-01-07 |
| FFmpeg Is Returning To Ubuntu With 15.04 Release | Multimedia | 2014-11-20 |
| The FFmpeg vs. Libav War Continues In Debian Land | Multimedia | 2014-07-29 |
| LZO & LZ4 Security Vulnerabilities Disclosed | Linux Security | 2014-06-28 |
| Libav Merges Its Native Opus Decoder | Multimedia | 2014-05-15 |
| Xine-lib 1.2.5 Supports Libav 10, New Plug-Ins | Multimedia | 2014-04-08 |
| Libav 10 Adds HEVC Support, WebP / JPEG 2000 / VP9 Decoders | Multimedia | 2014-03-24 |
| FFmpeg May Be On Its Way To Returning To Debian | Debian | 2014-02-26 |
| FFmpeg & Libav Add H.265 Encoder Via x265 | Multimedia | 2014-02-12 |
| Libav Picks Up A WebP Decoder | Free Software | 2013-09-18 |
| Gnash Flash Player Still Advancing, But No New Release | GNU | 2013-07-30 |
| Features Coming For The VLC 2.1 Media Player | Free Software | 2013-07-16 |
| FFmpeg 2.0 Released With OpenCL, Many Changes | Multimedia | 2013-07-10 |
| New Features Coming For Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" | Debian | 2013-02-19 |
| FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0 | Multimedia | 2012-09-28 |
| GStreamer 1.0.0 Is Due Next Weekend, Final Pre-Release | GNOME | 2012-09-19 |
| MPlayer 1.1 Magically Surfaces With New Features | Multimedia | 2012-06-06 |
| FFmpeg 0.11 Has Blu-Ray Protocol, New Encoders | Multimedia | 2012-05-26 |
| Google Code-In 2011 Accomplishments | Google | 2012-01-30 |
| MPlayer2 Is Still Being Actively Developed | Free Software | 2012-01-22 |
| The VP8 State Tracker That Was Born This Summer | Mesa | 2011-08-28 |
| LinuxTag 2011: More Wayland, Ubuntu Pickles | Phoronix | 2011-05-16 |
| Exciting GSoC Projects For 2011 | Google | 2011-04-25 |
| Legal Threats Against MPlayer, Server To Disappear | Multimedia | 2011-04-08 |
| FFmpeg Becomes Multi-Threaded Happy | Multimedia | 2011-03-23 |
| A Group Of FFmpeg Developers Just Forked As Libav | Multimedia | 2011-03-14 |
| MPlayer Is Getting Closer To Version 1.0 Too | Multimedia | 2011-01-29 |
