FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More Vulkan Acceleration

FFmpeg 8.1 has been released with several notable additions: Apple ProRes Vulkan acceleration (both decode and encode via compute shaders), DPX Vulkan hardware acceleration, Vulkan swscale support, initial JPEG-XS support (parsing, encoding, decoding via libsvtjpegxs, muxing/demuxing), Direct3D 12 AV1 encoder support, EXIF metadata parsing, tiled HEIF support from the CLI, IAMF Ambisonic Audio Elements muxing/demuxing, and experimental xHE-AAC MPS212 decoding. The Khronos Blog also published a companion post detailing FFmpeg's Vulkan video encoding/decoding with compute shaders for codecs outside the Vulkan Video extensions.