FFmpeg 9.0 'Lei' Released
FFmpeg 9.0, codenamed 'Lei', is now available, arriving about four months after version 8.1. The release includes a comprehensive changelog and the complete Git history. Users can join the #ffmpeg IRC channel on Libera.Chat or ask questions on the mailing lists for support.
We hope you will like this release as much as we enjoyed working on it, and as usual, if you have any questions about it, or any FFmpeg related topic, feel free to join us on the #ffmpeg IRC channel (on irc.libera.chat) or ask on the mailing-lists.
- gyan
Changelog:
- Extend AMF Color Converter (vf_vpp_amf) HDR capabilities
- LCEVC track muxing support in MP4 muxer
- Playdate video encoder and muxer
- Add v360_vulkan filter
- HE-AAC 960 decoding (DAB+)
- transpose_cuda filter
- Add AMF Frame Rate Converter (vf_frc_amf) filter
- SMPTE 2094-50 metadata support and passthrough
- ProRes RAW VideoToolbox hwaccel
- APV Vulkan hwaccel
- Animated WebP decoder
- Animated WebP demuxer
- Remove CELT decoding support (doesn't affect Opus CELT)
- Remove ogg/celt parsing
- Bitstream filter to split Dolby Vision multi-layer HEVC
- Add AMF hardware memory mapping support.
- ONNX Runtime DNN backend with GPU execution provider support
- Remove deprecated NVENC options and support for pre-11.1 SDK versions
- Lucasoato
I feel we’re blessed to have a project like FFmpeg. This open source tool is so important for everyone.
- jbk
For those interested in the work being done, with a bit more details that just the Changelog, I wrote a longer blogpost about the work here: https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/ffmpeg-9.0/
More details about the ongoing work on Swscale rewrite, on the various Vulkan changes, the assembly detailed and a bit of statistics about this release.
- alfg
One of my favorite pieces of software. FFmpeg has done so much for my career. Happy to see it still going strong.
- xuhu
I still hope a future FFmpeg release will make Intel QSV encoding available on Windows laptops where the manufacturer disabled this capability from the ACPI tables. The only way to use it on these laptops is currently FFmpeg on Linux.