Consider updating the underlying FFmpeg build bundled in the vertd container image from 6.x to the 8.x release series. Updating to FFmpeg 8.x brings significant architectural improvements to hardware acceleration pipelines, particularly for VA-API and Intel QuickSync (iHD) video encoding. These updates reduce CPU overhead during transcode initialization, deliver better low-power encoding performance (VAEntrypointEncSliceLP), and broaden support for newer AV1 and HEVC profiles. Modernizing this core dependency also resolves deprecation warnings in CLI flag parsing and ensures vertd stays aligned with current upstream multimedia libraries, offering self-hosters lower processing latency and better hardware utilization out of the box.
there may be breaking changes going from 6->7 or 8 depending on how ffmpeg is invoked....
Consider updating the underlying FFmpeg build bundled in the vertd container image from 6.x to the 8.x release series. Updating to FFmpeg 8.x brings significant architectural improvements to hardware acceleration pipelines, particularly for VA-API and Intel QuickSync (iHD) video encoding. These updates reduce CPU overhead during transcode initialization, deliver better low-power encoding performance (VAEntrypointEncSliceLP), and broaden support for newer AV1 and HEVC profiles. Modernizing this core dependency also resolves deprecation warnings in CLI flag parsing and ensures vertd stays aligned with current upstream multimedia libraries, offering self-hosters lower processing latency and better hardware utilization out of the box.
there may be breaking changes going from 6->7 or 8 depending on how ffmpeg is invoked....