FFmpeg 7.1 has been released with major updates, including a stabilized VVC decoder, a native AAC USAC decoder, MV-HEVC decoding, and Vulkan encoding support. Internal improvements also include enhanced image processing and support for cropping metadata in Matroska and MP4 formats.
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