FFmpeg 7.0: a question of threads

FFmpeg 7.0 FFmpeg 7.0 was released a few days ago: a major release with numerous new features and a new major version of the APIs.
It features a multi-threaded CLI, a first version of our native VVC decoder, support for EVC decoding and encoding, numerous RISC-V & loongarch optimizations and D3D12 hardware decoding.
Multi-threading FFmpeg The CLI of FFmpeg is used everywhere and can do so many things. But it’s an ancient codebase, and has many limitations, notably when doing multiple decodes, encodes or filters.