TL;DR
FFmpeg 9.1 introduces a Vulkan encoder for the APV video format and a new interpolation filter using NVIDIA Optical Flow.
FFmpeg 9.1 includes a Vulkan encoder for the royalty-free APV video codec, which uses GPU shaders for acceleration. The update also adds a new interpolation filter called vf_fruc_vulkan. This filter, which stands for Frame Rate Up-Conversion, uses NVIDIA Optical Flow acceleration. Other changes in FFmpeg 9.1 include H.265 Vulkan encode optimizations, improvements to the AAC encoder, and support for H.264 data partitioning.
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