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Media decoding and encoding for PyTorch: videos, images, and audio, on CPU and GPU.

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  1. We dynamically load the shared object files. See: https://github.com/meta-pytorch/torchcodec/blob/8bbce656797c... Solutions that shell out to the `ffmpeg` binary are not going to perform well.
    comment by scott_s · 2026-06-17 · in TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder
  2. …That being said, we've got some benchmarks here, with a script that users can run on their own: https://github.com/meta-pytorch/torchcodec/pull/1474 . Note that TorchCodec relies on FFmpeg libraries, not the FFmpeg binary itself. The new…
    comment by NicolasHug · 2026-06-15 · in TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder
  3. …(HDR video decoding; fast Wav decoding) in the latest release. See the compatbility matrix: https://github.com/meta-pytorch/torchcodec#compatibility-wit... Up until recently, TorchCodec releases worked with one-and-only-one version of…
    comment by scott_s · 2026-06-15 · in TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder
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    TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder
    story by scott_s · 2026-06-10 · 13 comments