Latest Kodi 20.2 home theatre & media centre software newly backported for #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux is now available at ppa:savouruy1/multimedia (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/multimedia) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS. Read update at PPA for install info!

Latest Mesa 23.1.7 display drivers (built with LLVM 15) now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/display (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/display) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 & 22.04 LTS. Read PPA notes carefully for older GPU hardware and/or older Ubuntu (16.04 & 18.04)!

New builds of HandBrake 1.6.2 pre-release from git source now available to #SavOS private PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/handbrake (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/handbrake) for 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS (use ppa:savoury1/gtk-xenial for 16.04 LTS). Read PPA notes for install!

Latest PipeWire 0.3.79 (built with new libcamera 0.1.0 support) now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/multimedia (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/multimedia) & ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg4) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS.

Latest Blender 3.6.2, built with #Pixar USD (Universal Scene Description) & FFmpeg 6.0, now available to #SavOS private PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/blender (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/blender) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS. Read PPA notes carefully for installation!

As reported by a #SavOS user, recent libheif 1.16.2 backports did not allow viewing HEIC files in external graphics programs. This has been fixed (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/savos/+bug/2033474) but note: latest libheif1 will now remove all libheif-plugin-* packages, which is correct and expected.

Updated Vulkan drivers at SDK 1.3.261 now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/display (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/display). Latest glslang, SPIR-V & shaderc at SDK 1.3.261 are also available for private PPA users at ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg).

Latest Mesa 23.1.6 display drivers (built with LLVM 15) now available to #SavOS users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/display (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/display) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 & 22.04 LTS. Read PPA notes carefully for older GPU hardware and/or older Ubuntu series (16.04/18.04)!

Builds of Chromium 116.0.5845.110 stable release (built with PipeWire support & fixing 26 CVEs since v115) are now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/chromium (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/chromium/+packages) for 18.04, 20.04 & 22.04 LTS.

New builds of VLC 3.0.19 pre-release & mpv 0.36.0+git now available to #SavOS private PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/vlc3 & ppa:savoury1/mpv-git (also requires ppa:savoury1/mpv) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS. See notes at each PPA for detailed install info.

Updated FFmpeg 4.4.4, 5.1.3, 6.0 & 6.0+git builds with AviSynth+ & SVT-HEVC support are now available to #SavOS private PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at their respective PPAs (ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg{,5,6,-git}) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 & 22.04 LTS. Thanks @frankbaier for suggesting!

Numerous multimedia updates including MKVToolNix 78.0, MediaInfo 23.07, Mixxx 2.3.5, MPlayer 1.5+svn, and SDL2 2.28.1, now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/multimedia (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/multimedia) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS.

Latest OBS Studio 29.1.3 built with obs-browser (CEF), obs-websocket (remote control), AJA NTV2 I/O device, and PipeWire support is now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/multimedia for 20.04 & 22.04 LTS and ppa:savoury1/qt-5-15 for 16.04 & 18.04 LTS.

Latest Intel MediaSDK 23.2.2 (libmfx), Media Drivers 23.2.4, and libva 2.19.0 all now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/multimedia (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/multimedia) and ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg4) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS.

Updated Vulkan drivers at SDK 1.3.250 now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/display (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/display). Latest glslang, SPIR-V & shaderc at SDK 1.3.250 are also available for private PPA users at ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg).

Various display driver updates including latest Wayland 1.22.0 and Wayland Protocols 1.32 now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/display (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/display) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS.

Mesa 23.0.4 display drivers update (built with LLVM 15) now available to #SavOS users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/display (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/display) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 & 22.04 LTS. Read PPA notes carefully for older GPU hardware and/or older Ubuntu series (16.04/18.04)!

New video encoder updates done in recent days include rav1e 0.6.6, OneVPL 2023.3.0, and SVT-AV1 1.6.0, all now available to #SavOS private PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS.

Latest Chromium 114.0.5735.198 stable release (built with PipeWire support & fixing 21 CVEs since v113) is now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/chromium (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/chromium/+packages) for 18.04, 20.04 & 22.04 LTS (not for 16.04 as yet, due older kernel).

Latest PipeWire 0.3.73 (built with new libcamera 0.0.5 support) now available to #SavOS PPA users of #Ubuntu #Linux at ppa:savoury1/multimedia (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/multimedia) & ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 (https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg4) for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS.