What’s New in REAPER 7.66 – the FFMPEG Update and more

This REAPER update mainly brings support for the more recent versions of FFMPEG extension for video playback and rendering. One of the long awaited features this brings is hardware decoding and encoding, meaning your fancy gaming graphics card can be used with REAPER too!

This video also shows how to install FFMPEG for Windows via Winget, and for Mac with Homebrew.

00:00 - =START
00:46 - select item under mouse
02:48 - Regions/Markers importing
05:43 - FFMPEG 5+ support
13:05 - Install FFMPEG on Windows
17:08 - Install FFMPEG Mac
19:25 - Outro

LINKS

Winget https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases

Homebrew https://github.com/Homebrew/install/#install-homebrew-on-macos-or-linux

Full playlist of update videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4mhaIEnflCAx0A6gcS3YI9aN12D00f3P

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