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FFmpeg 7.0 released
A new major release, FFmpeg 7.0 βDijkstraβ, is now available for download. The most noteworthy changes for most users are a native VVC decoder (currently experimental, until more fuzzing is done), IAMF support, or a multi-threaded
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CLI tool.This release is not backwards compatible, removing APIs deprecated before 6.0. The biggest change for most library callers will be the removal of the old bitmask-based channel layout API, replaced by the
β« FFmpeg websiteAVChannelLayout
API allowing such features as custom channel ordering, or Ambisonics. Certain deprecatedffmpeg
CLI options were also removed, and a C11-compliant compiler is now required to build the code.
I donβt think many of directly interface with FFmpeg, but weβre most likely all using it one way or another. Even Microsoft (hereβs the referenced bug report).