ffmpeg-7.1

version 7.1:

• Raw Captions with Time (RCWT) closed caption demuxer
• LC3/LC3plus decoding/encoding using external library liblc3
• ffmpeg CLI filtergraph chaining
• LC3/LC3plus demuxer and muxer
• pad_vaapi, drawbox_vaapi filters
• vf_scale supports secondary ref input and framesync options
• vf_scale2ref deprecated
• qsv_params option added for QSV encoders
• VVC decoder compatible with DVB test content
• xHE-AAC decoder
• removed DEC Alpha DSP and support code
• VVC encoding support via libvvenc
• perlin video source
• D3D12VA HEVC encoder
• Cropping metadata parsing and writing in Matroska and MP4/MOV de/muxers
• Intel QSV-accelerated VVC decoding
• MediaCodec AAC/AMR-NB/AMR-WB/MP3 decoding
• YUV colorspace negotiation for codecs and filters, obsoleting the
  YUVJ pixel format
• Vulkan H.264 encoder
• Vulkan H.265 encoder
• stream specifiers in fftools can now match by stream disposition
• LCEVC enhancement data exporting in H.26x and MP4/ISOBMFF
• LCEVC filter
• MV-HEVC decoding

ffmpeg-7.0

version 7.0:

• DXV DXT1 encoder
• LEAD MCMP decoder
• EVC decoding using external library libxevd
• EVC encoding using external library libxeve
• QOA decoder and demuxer
• aap filter
• demuxing, decoding, filtering, encoding, and muxing in the
  ffmpeg CLI now all run in parallel
• enable gdigrab device to grab a window using the hwnd=HANDLER syntax
• IAMF raw demuxer and muxer
• D3D12VA hardware accelerated H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, MPEG-2 and VC1 decoding
• tiltandshift filter
• qrencode filter and qrencodesrc source
• quirc filter
• lavu/eval: introduce randomi() function in expressions
• VVC decoder (experimental)
• fsync filter
• Raw Captions with Time (RCWT) closed caption muxer
• ffmpeg CLI -bsf option may now be used for input as well as output
• ffmpeg CLI options may now be used as -/opt , which is equivalent
  to -opt <contents of file >
• showinfo bitstream filter
• a C11-compliant compiler is now required; note that this requirement
  will be bumped to C17 in the near future, so consider updating your
  build environment if it lacks C17 support
• Change the default bitrate control method from VBR to CQP for QSV encoders.
• removed deprecated ffmpeg CLI options -psnr and -map_channel
• DVD-Video demuxer, powered by libdvdnav and libdvdread
• ffprobe -show_stream_groups option
• ffprobe (with -export_side_data film_grain) now prints film grain metadata
• AEA muxer
• ffmpeg CLI loopback decoders
• Support PacketTypeMetadata of PacketType in enhanced flv format
• ffplay with hwaccel decoding support (depends on vulkan renderer via libplacebo)
• dnn filter libtorch backend
• Android content URIs protocol
• AOMedia Film Grain Synthesis 1 (AFGS1)
• RISC-V optimizations for AAC, FLAC, JPEG-2000, LPC, RV4.0, SVQ, VC1, VP8, and more
• Loongarch optimizations for HEVC decoding
• Important AArch64 optimizations for HEVC
• IAMF support inside MP4/ISOBMFF
• Support for HEIF/AVIF still images and tiled still images
• Dolby Vision profile 10 support in AV1
• Support for Ambient Viewing Environment metadata in MP4/ISOBMFF
• HDR10 metadata passthrough when encoding with libx264, libx265, and libsvtav1

ffmpeg-5.0

version 5.0:

• ADPCM IMA Westwood encoder
• Westwood AUD muxer
• ADPCM IMA Acorn Replay decoder
• Argonaut Games CVG demuxer
• Argonaut Games CVG muxer
• Concatf protocol
• afwtdn audio filter
• audio and video segment filters
• Apple Graphics (SMC) encoder
• hsvkey and hsvhold video filters
• adecorrelate audio filter
• atilt audio filter
• grayworld video filter
• AV1 Low overhead bitstream format muxer
• swscale slice threading
• MSN Siren decoder
• scharr video filter
• apsyclip audio filter
• morpho video filter
• amr parser
• (a)latency filters
• GEM Raster image decoder
• asdr audio filter
• speex decoder
• limitdiff video filter
• xcorrelate video filter
• varblur video filter
• huesaturation video filter
• colorspectrum source video filter
• RTP packetizer for uncompressed video (RFC 4175)
• bitpacked encoder
• VideoToolbox VP9 hwaccel
• VideoToolbox ProRes hwaccel
• support loongarch.
• aspectralstats audio filter
• adynamicsmooth audio filter
• libplacebo filter
• vflip_vulkan, hflip_vulkan and flip_vulkan filters
• adynamicequalizer audio filter
• yadif_videotoolbox filter
• VideoToolbox ProRes encoder
• anlmf audio filter
• IMF demuxer (experimental)