1/4 FFmpeg weekly news (Oct 7–13): Panasonic RW2 RAW decoding (RawFormat 8) landed. HEIF now exposes gain maps, including Apple's. A new libfdk-xhe-aac wrapper brings xHE-AAC encoding, initially single-pass. New in git master!
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2/4 ffplay's chapter list gained faster rendering and more responsive input. VC-1 gained SSE2/AVX2 inverse transforms. LoongArch LSX now accelerates fast bilinear scaling and NV12/NV21-to-RGB conversion. A Windows handle protocol landed too.
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3/4 HTTP range/EOF handling and HLS byte-range playback were fixed. Security and robustness fixes landed, including fixes from OSS-Fuzz reports and follow-up investigations into issues found by Fairy's automated code reviews. Please test and report regressions!

Oct 14, 2026 · 12:39 AM UTC

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4/4 Welcome Marcos Ashton Iglesias as maintainer of the libavutil tests he wrote! Several previously offline FATE clients are reporting again. Thanks to everyone running test machines and keeping FFmpeg working across platforms!
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@FFmpeg range/EOF bugs are why 'it played once from the start' is such a weak media test. let someone abuse the seek bar.
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