steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip v6.0.0

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Full Changelog: v5.2.1...v6.0.0

6.0.0 - 2026-10-19

v6 moves the bundled ffmpeg up a major version, from FFmpeg 7.1 to 8.1. The
ffmpeg-over-ip wire protocol, configuration, and install layout are unchanged,
and v5 clients and servers need no config changes. Command lines (including
server-side rewrites) that depend on options, codecs, or defaults FFmpeg 8
changed or removed may need updating.

Changed

• Breaking: bundled ffmpeg upgraded to jellyfin-ffmpeg 8.1.3 — the server's
  patched ffmpeg/ffprobe move from jellyfin-ffmpeg 7.1.3-3 (FFmpeg 7.1.3)
  to 8.1.3-2 (FFmpeg 8.1.3) on all platforms. The fio patches are rebased onto
  the new source; 8.1 introduces no new raw file syscalls that need tunneling.
  Minimum platforms are unchanged: glibc 2.28 on Linux, macOS 12.0.
• The experimental sonic/sonicls encoders are no longer included
  (jellyfin-ffmpeg now builds with --disable-unstable).

Added

• More hardware acceleration in the bundled ffmpeg — the AMF hwaccel and
  Vulkan AV1/FFV1/ProRes encoders on Linux x86_64 and Windows; VAAPI on Linux
  arm64; Media Foundation and D3D12 encoders on Windows.

Fixed

• build-release.sh now fails immediately for win64 when the host has no
  zip, instead of after the full container build.

CI / Testing

• test-simple-transcode.sh now actually checks ffprobe reading through fio.
  It passed -pix_fmt, which ffprobe rejects, and only passed by matching the
  minimal build's configure banner.