FFmpeg 4.0 released
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HN comment orderThank you FFmpeg developers and contributors! If there's anything that needs audio/video automation, I've always turned to FFmpeg, it's such a crucial and indispensible tool and so many online video tools use it and are generally a UI wrapper around this wonderful tool. TIL - there's FFmpeg.Wasm also [0]. In Jan 2024, I had used it to extract frames of 1993 anime movie in 15 minutes video segments, upscaled it using Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan [1] then recombining the output frames for final…
If you're reading this, FFmpeg developers, please accept my thanks for your work. You have become a "Category Killer"[1] in command-line video tomfoolery. [1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-baza...
One of the best open-source tools out there. I'm a frequent user of Plex, Jellyfin, Tunarr, local music files, etc. I use it weekly to extract subtitles, trim videos, convert music formats, and remove audio tracks. After writing the previous paragraph, I realized I've never donated to the project; it's time to change that.
We're all thinking it, but holy cow is FFmpeg one of the craziest pieces of software I have on my computer. The amount of neat things I've been able to do with it and toss them into a bash loop and go to bed is incredible. I'm sure a lot of us get a kick out of automating our tasks, and FFmpeg is king when it comes to that.
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-03-16 | Ffmpeg developers back in control after coup attempt | zdw | 2 | 3 |
| 2015-08-01 | A message from the FFmpeg project | ux | 12 | 1 |
| 2018-04-20 | FFmpeg 4.0 releasedFirst breakout | frakturfreund | 462 | 61 |
| 2019-08-06 | FFmpeg 4.2 | _Gyan_ | 327 | 79 |
| 2021-04-09 | FFmpeg 4.4Hall induction | _Gyan_ | 365 | 130 |
| 2022-01-17 | FFmpeg 5.0 has been released | blopeur | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-03-01 | FFmpeg 6.0 “Von Neumann” | LopRabbit | 2 | 1 |
| 2023-06-02 | Vulkan Decoding in FFmpeg | netol | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-08-22 | FFmpeg 8.0Best thread | gyan | 987 | 200 |
| 2026-03-16 | FFmpeg 8.1 | gyan | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-03-17 | FFmpeg 8.1Latest 20+ point return | gyan | 438 | 65 |