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FFmpeg 8.0 Released With OpenAI Whisper Filter, Many Vulkan Video Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 08/22/2025 - 20:24
FFmpeg 8.0 is now available! FFmpeg 8.0 is a magnificent update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library and with this new version is the introduction of an OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition, many Vulkan Video improvements for greater GPU-accelerated video handling, and a number of CPU performance optimizations...

Servo Lands APNG & Animated WebP Support, Vello Backends For Faster 2D Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 08/22/2025 - 18:29
The Servo browser project has published a monthly status report to outline all of the interesting changes made to this interesting, Rust-based browser layout engine over the past several weeks. Development continues moving along with Servo as more critical functionality continues to be added as well as new performance optimizations and other features to make it a compelling option for future embedded web use and more...

FreeRDP 3.17 Released With Fullchain Support

Phoronix - Fri, 08/22/2025 - 18:19
FreeRDP as one of the leading open-source / free software implementations of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is out with a new release. While FreeRDP 3.17 is primarily focused on shipping bug fixes, there is one noteworthy addition: fullchain support...

Intel's New LLM-Scaler Beta Update Brings Whisper Model & GLM-4.5-Air Support

Phoronix - Fri, 08/22/2025 - 17:59
Earlier this month Intel released LLM-Scaler 1.0 as part of their Project Battlematrix initiative. This is a Docker container effort to deliver speedy AI inference performance with multi-GPU scaling and PCIe P2P support and more...

Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Enabling USB3 Support On Apple M1 / M2

Phoronix - Fri, 08/22/2025 - 04:38
In addition to this week seeing Apple SoC DT updates prepped for Linux 6.18 and Apple laptop lid events and power button driver patches posted for review for the mainline Linux kernel, published today on the Linux kernel mailing list are the request for comments (RFC) on patches for enabling USB3 support with Apple Silicon M1 / M2 SoCs...

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