FFmpeg 3.3.1 is out now for Linux, Mac, and Windows systems

May 15, 2017 23:07 GMT  ·  By

About one and a half months after its launch, the FFmpeg 3.3 "Hilbert" open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework received its first point release this past weekend, versioned 3.3.1.

FFmpeg 3.3.1 is now the latest stable and most advanced release in the "Hilbert" series, which was cut from the master branch in very early April 2017. It contains the libavutil 55.58.100, libavcodec 57.89.100, libavformat 57.71.100, libavdevice 57.6.100, libavfilter 6.82.100, libavresample 3.5.0, libswscale 4.6.100, libswresample 2.7.100, and libpostproc 54.4.100 updated libraries.

Looking at the changelog, we can't help but notice that there are about 24 bug fixes included in the FFMpeg 3.3.1 maintenance update, which should improve various components like the AC3 audio and MPEG-4 video decoders, WebP and Opus support, FLAC decoder, MVC support, DDS decoder, and AAC encoder, among many others, so we recommend updating as soon as possible.

You can download the FFmpeg 3.3.1 source tarball right now from our website if you fancy compiling the multimedia framework on your own, and we'd like to remind readers that FFmpeg 3.3 "Hilber" series comes with support for the Pro-MPEG CoP #3-R2 FEC protocol, support for spherical videos, QDMC audio decoders, new premultiply video filter, and numerous other features.

VAAPI-accelerated MPEG-2, native Opus and ScreenPressor decoders, Optimal Huffman tables for (M)JPEG encoding support, FM Screen Capture codec, and an all-new MPEG-7 Video Signature filter are also included in FFmpeg 3.3 "Hilbert," which you can also download for macOS and Microsoft Windows platforms from our software download portal.