FFmpeg 3.3 "Hilbert" Open-Source Multimedia Framework Is Out, Here Is What's New

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The FFmpeg project proudly announced the release of a new series of their freely distributed collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content, FFmpeg 3.3, which has been dubbed as “Hilbert.”

Coming about five months after the release of FFmpeg 3.2 “Hypatia,” whose development cycle concluded with the version 3.2.4, the brand-new FFmpeg 3.3 “Hilbert” series is here to add an extra layer of performance improvements to the open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

Prominent new features of FFmpeg 3.3 include an internal ebur128 library to finally drop the libebur128 dependency, support for the Pro-MPEG CoP #3-R2 FEC protocol, new premultiply video filter, support for spherical videos, as well as new PSD, Apple Pixlet, 16.8 and 24.0 floating point PCM, and QDMC audio decoders.

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