FFmpeg-Kit-Extended Upgraded to FFmpeg 9.0.1: New FFmpeg, FFprobe & FFplay Features for Flutter and React Native

FFmpegKit Extended has upgraded to FFmpeg 9.0.1, enabling Flutter and React Native applications to access the latest version of FFmpeg, FFprobe, and FFplay. FFmpeg 9.0.1, released on August 12, 2026, introduces new codecs, filters, hardware-acceleration paths, metadata features, and media-processing capabilities.

Some notable additions for FFmpegKit Extended applications include:

- Animated WebP decoder and demuxer

- GPU-accelerated rotation and flipping with NVIDIA CUDA

- Vulkan-accelerated 360° video projection processing

- Hardware-accelerated frame interpolation using AMD AMF

- Expanded AMF HDR processing

- ONNX Runtime DNN backend

- Dolby Vision Profile 7 splitter

- HE-AAC 960 decoding

- Improved DAB+ / HE-AAC compatibility

- ProRes RAW VideoToolbox acceleration

- Hardware decoding for ProRes RAW on supported Apple systems

- APV Vulkan acceleration for hardware decoding workflows

- SMPTE ST 2094-50 support in metadata pipeline

- Improved dynamic HDR metadata handling

- LCEVC MP4 muxing with enhancement-track support

- Playdate encoder and muxer

These features can be used directly through FFmpegKit Extended's FFmpeg, FFprobe, and FFplay command execution model, without the need for a separate media-processing abstraction. This upgrade provides Flutter and React Native applications with access to the new FFmpeg 9.0.1 features, enhancing their media-processing capabilities.