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-- aliases and defaults for Ogg subtypes (opus, spx)
-- HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) packetizer and depacketizer
-- avplay now exits by default at the end of playback
-- XCB-based screen-grabber
-- creating DASH compatible fragmented MP4, MPEG-DASH segmenting muxer
-- H.261 RTP payload format (RFC 4587) depacketizer and experimental packetizer
+- DXV decoding
+- extrastereo filter
+- ocr filter
+- alimiter filter
+- stereowiden filter
+- stereotools filter
+- rubberband filter
+- tremolo filter
+- agate filter
+- chromakey filter
+- maskedmerge filter
+- Screenpresso SPV1 decoding
+- chromaprint fingerprinting muxer
+- ffplay dynamic volume control
+- displace filter
+- selectivecolor filter
+- extensive native AAC encoder improvements
+- ADPCM PSX decoder
+- 3dostr, dcstr, fsb, genh, vag, xvag, ads, msf, svag & vpk demuxer
+- zscale filter
+- wve demuxer
+- zero-copy Intel QSV transcoding in ffmpeg
+- shuffleframes filter
+- SDX2 DPCM decoder
+- vibrato filter
+- innoHeim/Rsupport Screen Capture Codec decoder
+- ADPCM AICA decoder
+- Interplay ACM demuxer and audio decoder
+- XMA1 & XMA2 decoder
+- realtime filter
+- anoisesrc audio filter source
+- IVR demuxer
+- compensationdelay filter
+- acompressor filter
++- support encoding 16-bit RLE SGI images
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+version 2.8:
+- colorkey video filter
+- BFSTM/BCSTM demuxer
+- little-endian ADPCM_THP decoder
+- Hap decoder and encoder
+- DirectDraw Surface image/texture decoder
+- ssim filter
+- optional new ASF demuxer
+- showvolume filter
+- Many improvements to the JPEG 2000 decoder
+- Go2Meeting decoding support
+- adrawgraph audio and drawgraph video filter
+- removegrain video filter
+- Intel QSV-accelerated MPEG-2 video and HEVC encoding
+- Intel QSV-accelerated MPEG-2 video and HEVC decoding
+- Intel QSV-accelerated VC-1 video decoding
+- libkvazaar HEVC encoder
+- erosion, dilation, deflate and inflate video filters
+- Dynamic Audio Normalizer as dynaudnorm filter
+- Reverse video and areverse audio filter
+- Random filter
+- deband filter
+- AAC fixed-point decoding
+- sidechaincompress audio filter
+- bitstream filter for converting HEVC from MP4 to Annex B
+- acrossfade audio filter
+- allyuv and allrgb video sources
+- atadenoise video filter
+- OS X VideoToolbox support
+- aphasemeter filter
+- showfreqs filter
+- vectorscope filter
+- waveform filter
+- hstack and vstack filter
+- Support DNx100 (1440x1080@8)
+- VAAPI hevc hwaccel
+- VDPAU hevc hwaccel
+- framerate filter
+- Switched default encoders for webm to VP9 and Opus
+- Removed experimental flag from the JPEG 2000 encoder
+
+
+version 2.7:
+- FFT video filter
+- TDSC decoder
+- DTS lossless extension (XLL) decoding (not lossless, disabled by default)
+- showwavespic filter
+- DTS decoding through libdcadec
+- Drop support for nvenc API before 5.0
+- nvenc HEVC encoder
+- Detelecine filter
+- Intel QSV-accelerated H.264 encoding
+- MMAL-accelerated H.264 decoding
+- basic APNG encoder and muxer with default extension "apng"
+- unpack DivX-style packed B-frames in MPEG-4 bitstream filter
+- WebM Live Chunk Muxer
+- nvenc level and tier options
+- chorus filter
+- Canopus HQ/HQA decoder
+- Automatically rotate videos based on metadata in ffmpeg
+- improved Quickdraw compatibility
+- VP9 high bit-depth and extended colorspaces decoding support
+- WebPAnimEncoder API when available for encoding and muxing WebP
+- Direct3D11-accelerated decoding
+- Support Secure Transport
+- Multipart JPEG demuxer
+
+
+version 2.6:
+- nvenc encoder
+- 10bit spp filter
+- colorlevels filter
+- RIFX format for *.wav files
- RTP/mpegts muxer
-- VP8 in Ogg demuxing
+- non continuous cache protocol support
+- tblend filter
+- cropdetect support for non 8bpp, absolute (if limit >= 1) and relative (if limit < 1.0) threshold
+- Camellia symmetric block cipher
- OpenH264 encoder wrapper
+- VOC seeking support
+- Closed caption Decoder
+- fspp, uspp, pp7 MPlayer postprocessing filters ported to native filters
+- showpalette filter
+- Twofish symmetric block cipher
- Support DNx100 (960x720@8)
-- Direct3D11-accelerated decoding
+- eq2 filter ported from libmpcodecs as eq filter
+- removed libmpcodecs
+- Changed default DNxHD colour range in QuickTime .mov derivatives to mpeg range
+- ported softpulldown filter from libmpcodecs as repeatfields filter
+- dcshift filter
+- RTP depacketizer for loss tolerant payload format for MP3 audio (RFC 5219)
+- RTP depacketizer for AC3 payload format (RFC 4184)
+- palettegen and paletteuse filters
+- VP9 RTP payload format (draft 0) experimental depacketizer
+- RTP depacketizer for DV (RFC 6469)
- DXVA2-accelerated HEVC decoding
- AAC ELD 480 decoding
- Intel QSV-accelerated H.264 decoding