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Version 7.1 of
the FFmpeg audio/video toolkit has been released. Important changes in
this release include the VVC decoder reaching stable status, and
inclusion of support for MV-HEVC decoding (which is generated by
recent phones and VR headsets), as well as support for Vulkan encoding
with H264 and HEVC. See the announcement and changelog
for full details.