FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.

At the start of the week , the FFmpeg project released its eighth major version. It's codenamed "Huffman" after the Huffman code algorithm , which was invented in 1952, making it one of the oldest lossless compression algorithms .

We last looked at FFmpeg version 6.1 in late 2023 , in case you need to refresh your memory for what it is and does. Since then, there was 7.0 last April and 7.1 in September, but after an unusually long interval, this is the first release of 2025 – and it's quite a big one.

The changelog lists 30 significant changes, of which the top new feature is integrating Whisper . This means whisper.cpp , which is Georgi Gerga

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