[FFmpeg-user] Whisper in ffmpeg 8

Bernhard Döbler programmer at bardware.de
Fri Aug 15 00:18:05 EEST 2025


Hi,


yesterday, news made the round, that ffmpeg 8 is going to be released, 
soon, and it will contain whisper, an AI software that can understand 
spoken text and create subtitles.

Their github page https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp says they 
offer a handful of models.

Model 	Disk 	Mem
tiny 	75 MiB 	~273 MB
base 	142 MiB 	~388 MB
small 	466 MiB 	~852 MB
medium 	1.5 GiB 	~2.1 GB
large 	2.9 GiB 	~3.9 GB

How does this work? Will all of this be compiled into the ffmpeg binary?


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