ffmpeg 8.1.3 for the GPU (PocketShell bundle 1)

FFmpeg 8.1.3 built for PocketShell's Debian 13 (arm64) Linux, so its Vulkan filters run on the phone's or tablet's Adreno GPU. Debian 13 ships FFmpeg 7.1, whose Vulkan filters return empty frames on this GPU driver.

Install

Inside PocketShell's Linux, as root:

ps-gpu get-ffmpeg

It downloads ps-ffmpeg-8.1.3-1-debian13-arm64.tar.xz, checks it against the SHA-256 pinned in ps-gpu, installs the codec libraries from Debian, and makes ffmpeg and ffprobe (in /usr/local/bin) version 8. Debian's FFmpeg 7.1 stays at /usr/bin/ffmpeg.

Use the GPU through ps-gpu, for example:

ps-gpu ffmpeg -init_hw_device vulkan=vk -filter_hw_device vk -i in.mp4 \
  -vf 'hwupload,nlmeans_vulkan,hwdownload,format=yuv420p' out.mp4

Measured on a Galaxy Tab S7 (Adreno 650): nlmeans_vulkan on 30 frames of 1080p took 44.7 s, against 197 s on the CPU, with matching output.

What is in it

FFmpeg 8.1.3, unmodified, built with Vulkan (shaderc), OpenCL, x264, x265, SVT-AV1, aom, dav1d, libvpx, Opus, LAME, Vorbis, Theora, Speex, WebP, JPEG XL, OpenJPEG, libass, FreeType, HarfBuzz, zimg, soxr, vid.stab, Rubber Band, snappy, libxml2 and GnuTLS. The codec libraries come from Debian 13; the bundle carries only FFmpeg's own libraries.

License and source

FFmpeg is free software, licensed here under the GNU GPL version 2 or later (built with --enable-gpl). Its complete source is attached to this release unchanged: ffmpeg-8.1.3.tar.xz, with FFmpeg's signature ffmpeg-8.1.3.tar.xz.asc (FFmpeg release signing key FCF9 86EA 15E6 E293 A564 4F10 B432 2F04 D676 58D8). The bundle contains the build script and the exact configure line (SOURCE, build-ffmpeg-pack.sh). FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard; this build is not affiliated with the FFmpeg project.