Another great update for FFmpeg.

The launch of FFmpeg 4.0 gave many compressionists their first chance to test the new AV1 codec, which is included in experimental form. For the first time, you had a single encoder that could produce ...

FFmpeg turned 4.0 a few weeks ago, an event I planned to leave unheralded until I read Tim Siglin’s latest research report entitled “Real-World HEVC Insights: Adoption, Implications, and Workflows.” ...

FFmpeg 8.1 (codename: Hoare), the 8.1st version of the open-source multimedia framework FFmpeg, was released as a stable version on March 16, 2026. This release follows version 8.0, which was released ...

Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

FFmpeg Batch AV Converter is a free tool that simplifies audio and video encoding using the full power of FFmpeg through an intuitive GUI with drag-and-drop functionality and progress tracking. FFmpeg ...