FFmpeg

🔥FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare" has been released! It features experimental xHE-AAC Mps212 + MPEG-H decoding, EXIF metadata, LCEVC metadata, Vulkan compute ProRes/DPX codecs, D3D12 H.264/AV1 encoding + filters, Rockchip H.264/HEVC hwenc, IAMF Ambisonic mux/demux, new filters & more. #release_8.1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ffmpeg.org/download.html#…

New FFmpeg point releases: 8.1.2, 8.0.3, 7.1.5, 6.1.6, 5.1.10 and 4.4.8 are now available. ffmpeg.org/download.html Includes fixes for issues reported to ffmpeg-security

Making point releases in 2026 – the real process: 1️⃣ Backport everything "manually" 2️⃣ Test manually 3️⃣ Run 2 passes with multiple AI sub-agents scanning for missed backports 🧵

@leerob @leerob Thanks so much for the offer, We really appreciate Cursor supporting FFmpeg with credits + access to the security agents/vulnerability scanner. We DM’d you a couple of days ago asking how our developers can get set up but haven’t heard back. Any details on next steps?

@FFmpeg Hey, I work at Cursor. We’re happy to support y’all with some credits including access to our security agents / vulnerability scanner. DM is open!

Recently, @depthfirstlabs with AI found 21 security issues. Legit, credit where it's due, some of them were serious. Whilst disclosure is nice, and some fixes were even sent out, like with the Mythos-found issues, the best would have been to avoid having the issues altogether.

New releases for the 8.1/8.0 branches: FFmpeg 8.1.2 and 8.0.3 have been made. We recommend updating ffmpeg.org/download.html Changelogs: 8.1.2: git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.… 8.0.3: git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.…

@depthfirstlabs @FFmpeg I would add: while getting credits to use your service is nice, credits don't pay our rent, our food, our children's clothes and indirectly still just serve your market value. If you really want to help, sponsor our developers with real cash.

AI companies have open source initiatives. But critical infrastructure that doesn't fit the small-JS-lib-with-lots-of-GitHub-stars mold gets skipped. CC: @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @GoogleOSS your tools found real bugs in our code. Maybe help us fix the next ones before they happen?

We're an open-source project consisting of volunteer programmers, comfortable with C, assembly, and Perl. Most of us still program by hand. It's hard to justify spending thousands a month on AI agents scanning. We've relied on support from Coverity or Google's OSS fuzz to help.

FFmpeg is critical infrastructure for a lot of big companies. The security-report workload is rising fast. It would be nice if donations, sponsorships, and code contributions kept pace.

@languagecyborg This is the image to redo: x.com/FFmpeg/status/… (for a future news entry on ffmpeg.org). License should be CC BY 4.0 or CC0 If we receive multiple good submissions we will do a community poll.

Back again! 'The image that triggered this search was our rather bad server donation picture. So if you want to demonstrate your skills, a great sample would be a better image showing FFmpeg receiving a donated server.' Is there any other info that would help when making the image? Do you receive servers to host everything in-house? What was the bad picture that triggered this new search for one? Once you get back with a bit of context I'll time box somn to muster up the new image. If you've already chosen one, please let us know! In the spirit of open-sourcemaxxing, let's do it right here! #OpenSourceMaxxing

Any artists or designers in the FFmpeg community who would like to help out? We occasionally need artwork for social media, homepage news, and other community communication. It is volunteer/unpaid, help us fight ai-slop! Reply or mail art@ffmpeg.org

@r8limit oh yes, how did I forget @FFmpeg

todays AI-security high-light (note even without this I still have difficulty with the amount ATM)

@languagecyborg yes

@FFmpeg Can we just post it here? 👀

ffmpeg-security received 18 security reports in the last 24h (not counting fuzzers)

Interested in helping FFmpeg with artwork? mail art@ffmpeg.org or reply

So far, only 2 people have mailed us The image that triggered this search was our rather bad server donation picture. So if you want to demonstrate your skills, a great sample would be a better image showing FFmpeg receiving a donated server.

@FFmpeg @wiki_tu code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/…

Thx @FFmpeg I have a ~2gb .mkv file now it’s ~300mb file at the same resolution 🫨

The size difference between what random online "ICO converters" give you (15-370 KB) and what you get with a single @FFmpeg command (2.3 KB) is crazy! ffmpeg -i favicon-32.png favicon.ico Imagine all the disk space and traffic we're wasting because of them!