FFmpeg 8.0 is out, and it’s packed: Vulkan-based encoding/decoding (on any GPU that supports Vulkan 1.3), native ProRes RAW decoding, Whisper AI for speech-to-text, and new filters that offload to GPU.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/ffmpeg-8-vulkan-compute-codecs-professional-video?v1