diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0d9843666..1015c34d9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2332,9 +2332,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ffmpeg-next"
-version = "8.1.0"
+version = "9.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f7c4bd5ab1ac61f29c634df1175d350ded29cf74c3c6d4f7030431a5ae3c7d5d"
+checksum = "6380599799e175191eb7ffe82c97f36a2a90a36cbc54c738a903e5287d7f516a"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.13.1",
  "ffmpeg-sys-next",
@@ -2343,9 +2343,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ffmpeg-sys-next"
-version = "8.1.0"
+version = "9.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a314bc0e022a33a99567ed4bd2576bd58ffd8fcff7891c29194cfecc26a62547"
+checksum = "9b939bf79dd5949412a4b81cfe21a07f48ea21b47fcbb5f57816c8c2de5ae30b"
 dependencies = [
  "bindgen 0.72.1",
  "cc",
diff --git a/crates/oak-audio/Cargo.toml b/crates/oak-audio/Cargo.toml
index 7a4c70af9..bfefebb88 100644
--- a/crates/oak-audio/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/oak-audio/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ oak-codec = { path = "../oak-codec" }
 # ffmpeg_bridge library existed only to absorb FFmpeg API churn; the Rust
 # crate calls ffmpeg-next directly (same as oakcodec). The oak-ffmpeg-link
 # dependency above emits the transitive link flags of the static FFmpeg.
-ffmpeg-next = "8"
+ffmpeg-next = "9"
 
 # ASIO is intentionally not enabled: the asio-sys crate needs the proprietary
 # Steinberg ASIO SDK at link time, which CI and most dev machines do not have.
diff --git a/crates/oak-codec/Cargo.toml b/crates/oak-codec/Cargo.toml
index 8edb1b4c9..f59e0b568 100644
--- a/crates/oak-codec/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/oak-codec/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ oak-core = { path = "../oak-core" }
 # release/<crate-version>, and every such pairing is broken upstream
 # (9.0.0 -> FFmpeg 9.0 removed AVCodec fields; 8.1.0 -> FFmpeg 8.1 added
 # enum variants; 8.0.0 -> FFmpeg 8.0 renamed FF_PROFILE_*).
-ffmpeg-next = { version = "8", features = ["static"] }
+ffmpeg-next = { version = "9", features = ["static"] }
 # `std::error::Error` impls for the crate-internal error enum.
 thiserror = "2"