diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d6cb337..172ddc6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rusty_h264"
-version = "0.14.0"
+version = "0.16.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "dbb2ab8d07183ba1d866da7406389d1cd1a0bfc4e3aaf233b6898999b22674c6"
+checksum = "8a9799ab7a24237f35fc4391c8cbcfe4db23646e9030faee08faf9ba212c3c85"
 dependencies = [
  "rusty_h264-common",
  "rusty_h264-decoder",
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rusty_h264-common"
-version = "0.14.0"
+version = "0.16.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4ac00c7ea77d77ebdb9e6c546954d058e5c55d3fca07adc7994136628c217919"
+checksum = "5b9ab840d02dd582db8dc0a2f5e68fa75e222246ba378af567b578098c2b4cfc"
 dependencies = [
  "bytemuck",
  "libm",
@@ -126,18 +126,18 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rusty_h264-decoder"
-version = "0.14.0"
+version = "0.16.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "fa508f74bc21a256f48625a5fa25cd678ec3a4382e0af7b65a7c7a25cb47fd8f"
+checksum = "f08d16e3c51b0b190f731c8a214ade76a1ac30b94ba3933f93b740dd909f8155"
 dependencies = [
  "rusty_h264-common",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rusty_h264-encoder"
-version = "0.14.0"
+version = "0.16.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "08396baa00207203cdb68e78b59eff9b10ad3895b505a12338667fdea3205da4"
+checksum = "99277b8dcb73a794d7084ee17fa4953ac9845b568d350ceede534fa2984a631e"
 dependencies = [
  "rusty_h264-common",
 ]
diff --git a/crates/rusty_esp_video-core/Cargo.toml b/crates/rusty_esp_video-core/Cargo.toml
index 41871d6..808ce10 100644
--- a/crates/rusty_esp_video-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/rusty_esp_video-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ rusty_esp_core = { workspace = true }
 # The one planned Layer-1 edge: a VideoSource is an ImageSource plus an encoder.
 rusty_esp_image-core = { workspace = true }
 # Default features OFF: no allocator hijack, no SIMD, the portable scalar codec.
-rusty_h264 = { version = "0.14", default-features = false, optional = true }
+rusty_h264 = { version = "0.16.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 # The ESP32-S3 vector twins, for `annexb`'s start-code scan. Optional and
 # off by default: only a firmware that wants them asks.
 rusty_esp_dsp-esp = { workspace = true, optional = true }
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ rusty_esp_dsp-esp = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 # No `std` here: the `std` feature of this crate turns it on through
 # `rusty_h264?/std`, and a dev-dependency feature would leak into the
 # bare-metal check of the library.
-rusty_h264 = { version = "0.14", default-features = false }
+rusty_h264 = { version = "0.16.0", default-features = false }
 rusty_jpeg = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 
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