1 Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
2 releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
6 - ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter
7 - large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable
8 - request icecast metadata by default
9 - support for using metadata in stream specifiers in fftools
13 - AC3 fixed-point decoding
14 - shuffleplanes filter
16 - Phantom Cine demuxer
17 - replaygain data export
19 - Alias PIX image encoder and decoder
20 - Improvements to the BRender PIX image decoder
21 - Improvements to the XBM decoder
23 - improvements to OpenEXR image decoder
24 - support decoding 16-bit RLE SGI images
25 - GDI screen grabbing for Windows
26 - alternative rendition support for HTTP Live Streaming
27 - AVFoundation input device
28 - Direct Stream Digital (DSD) decoder
29 - Magic Lantern Video (MLV) demuxer
30 - On2 AVC (Audio for Video) decoder
31 - support for decoding through DXVA2 in ffmpeg
32 - libbs2b-based stereo-to-binaural audio filter
33 - libx264 reference frames count limiting depending on level
35 - display matrix export and rotation api
37 - showcqt multimedia filter
40 - hqx filter (hq2x, hq3x, hq4x)
42 - Image format auto-detection
43 - LRC demuxer and muxer
44 - Samba protocol (via libsmbclient)
45 - WebM DASH Manifest muxer
46 - libfribidi support in drawtext
51 - HNM version 4 demuxer and video decoder
53 - setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions
55 - string validation in ffprobe
56 - support for decoding through VDPAU in ffmpeg (the -hwaccel option)
57 - complete Voxware MetaSound decoder
58 - remove mp3_header_compress bitstream filter
59 - Windows resource files for shared libraries
61 - stereoscopic 3d metadata handling
62 - WebP encoding via libwebp
65 - side & metadata support in NUT
67 - XYZ12 rawvideo support in NUT
68 - Exif metadata support in WebP decoder
70 - Use metadata_header_padding to control padding in ID3 tags (currently used in
71 MP3, AIFF, and OMA files), FLAC header, and the AVI "junk" block.
72 - Mirillis FIC video decoder
76 - Autodetect VDA like all other hardware accelerations
82 - perspective filter ported from libmpcodecs
83 - ffprobe -show_programs option
86 - when transcoding with ffmpeg (i.e. not streamcopying), -ss is now accurate
87 even when used as an input option. Previous behavior can be restored with
88 the -noaccurate_seek option.
89 - ffmpeg -t option can now be used for inputs, to limit the duration of
90 data read from an input file
91 - incomplete Voxware MetaSound decoder
92 - read EXIF metadata from JPEG
93 - DVB teletext decoder
94 - phase filter ported from libmpcodecs
96 - Opus support in Matroska
97 - FFV1 version 1.3 is stable and no longer experimental
98 - FFV1: YUVA(444,422,420) 9, 10 and 16 bit support
99 - changed DTS stream id in lavf mpeg ps muxer from 0x8a to 0x88, to be
100 more consistent with other muxers.
102 - pullup filter ported from libmpcodecs
103 - ffprobe -read_intervals option
104 - Lossless and alpha support for WebP decoder
105 - Error Resilient AAC syntax (ER AAC LC) decoding
106 - Low Delay AAC (ER AAC LD) decoding
107 - mux chapters in ASF files
108 - SFTP protocol (via libssh)
109 - libx264: add ability to encode in YUVJ422P and YUVJ444P
110 - Fraps: use BT.709 colorspace by default for yuv, as reference fraps decoder does
111 - make decoding alpha optional for prores, ffv1 and vp6 by setting
113 - ladspa wrapper filter
116 - max_error_rate parameter in ffmpeg
117 - PulseAudio output device
119 - Enhanced Low Delay AAC (ER AAC ELD) decoding (no LD SBR support)
120 - Linux framebuffer output device
122 - raw HEVC, HEVC in MOV/MP4, HEVC in Matroska, HEVC in MPEG-TS demuxing
129 - reference-counting for AVFrame and AVPacket data
130 - ffmpeg now fails when input options are used for output file
132 - support for Monkey's Audio versions from 3.93
133 - perms and aperms filters
134 - audio filtering support in ffplay
135 - 10% faster aac encoding on x86 and MIPS
136 - sine audio filter source
137 - WebP demuxing and decoding support
138 - ffmpeg options -filter_script and -filter_complex_script, which allow a
139 filtergraph description to be read from a file
141 - audio phaser filter
142 - separatefields filter
144 - uniform options syntax across all filters
148 - inverse telecine filters (fieldmatch and decimate)
149 - colorbalance filter
150 - colorchannelmixer filter
151 - The matroska demuxer can now output proper verbatim ASS packets. It will
152 become the default at the next libavformat major bump.
153 - decent native animated GIF encoding
156 - timeline editing with filters
157 - vidstabdetect and vidstabtransform filters for video stabilization using
160 - trim and atrim filters
161 - ffmpeg -t and -ss (output-only) options are now sample-accurate when
163 - Matroska muxer can now put the index at the beginning of the file.
164 - extractplanes filter
165 - avectorscope filter
170 - ADPCM IMA Radical decoder
172 - DCT denoiser filter (dctdnoiz)
173 - Wavelet denoiser filter ported from libmpcodecs as owdenoise (formerly "ow")
174 - Apple Intermediate Codec decoder
175 - Escape 130 video decoder
176 - FTP protocol support
178 - 3D LUT filter (lut3d)
179 - SMPTE 302M audio encoder
180 - support for slice multithreading in libavfilter
181 - Hald CLUT support (generation and filtering)
182 - VC-1 interlaced B-frame support
183 - support for WavPack muxing (raw and in Matroska)
184 - XVideo output device
186 - True Audio (TTA) encoder
188 - mcdeint filter ported from libmpcodecs
189 - sab filter ported from libmpcodecs
190 - ffprobe -show_chapters option
191 - WavPack encoding through libwavpack
193 - spp filter ported from libmpcodecs
200 - VDPAU hardware acceleration through normal hwaccel
202 - Error diffusion dither in Swscale
203 - Chained Ogg support
204 - Theora Midstream reconfiguration support
207 - filtering audio with unknown channel layout
208 - allpass, bass, bandpass, bandreject, biquad, equalizer, highpass, lowpass
209 and treble audio filter
210 - improved showspectrum filter, with multichannel support and sox-like colors
213 - il filter ported from libmpcodecs
214 - support ID3v2 tags in ASF files
215 - encrypted TTA stream decoding support
216 - RF64 support in WAV muxer
217 - noise filter ported from libmpcodecs
218 - Subtitles character encoding conversion
220 - stereo3d filter ported from libmpcodecs
225 - stream disposition information printing in ffprobe
226 - filter for loudness analysis following EBU R128
227 - Opus encoder using libopus
228 - ffprobe -select_streams option
229 - Pinnacle TARGA CineWave YUV16 decoder
230 - TAK demuxer, decoder and parser
232 - remove -same_quant, it hasn't worked for years
234 - X-Face image encoder and decoder
235 - 24-bit FLAC encoding
236 - multi-channel ALAC encoding up to 7.1
237 - metadata (INFO tag) support in WAV muxer
238 - subtitles raw text decoder
239 - support for building DLLs using MSVC
242 - metadata (info chunk) support in CAF muxer
243 - field filter ported from libmpcodecs
245 - geq filter ported from libmpcodecs
246 - remove ffserver daemon mode
248 - new expansion syntax for drawtext
249 - BRender PIX image decoder
250 - ffprobe -show_entries option
251 - ffprobe -sections option
252 - ADPCM IMA Dialogic decoder
254 - animated GIF decoder and demuxer
257 - IRCAM muxer/demuxer
258 - Paris Audio File demuxer
259 - Virtual concatenation demuxer
261 - JSON captions for TED talks decoding support
262 - SOX Resampler support in libswresample
264 - SGI RLE 8-bit / Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video decoder
265 - Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 1 & 2 decoder
266 - Silicon Graphics Movie demuxer
268 - Resolution & pixel format change support with multithreading for H.264
269 - documentation split into per-component manuals
270 - pp (postproc) filter ported from MPlayer
271 - NIST Sphere demuxer
272 - MPL2, VPlayer, MPlayer, AQTitle, PJS and SubViewer v1 subtitles demuxers and decoders
274 - adobe and limelight publisher authentication in RTMP
276 - support building on the Plan 9 operating system
277 - kerndeint filter ported from MPlayer
278 - histeq filter ported from VirtualDub
279 - Megalux Frame demuxer
281 - Improved AVC Intra decoding support
286 - INI and flat output in ffprobe
287 - Scene detection in libavfilter
288 - Indeo Audio decoder
289 - channelsplit audio filter
290 - setnsamples audio filter
292 - ffprobe -show_data option
293 - RTMPT protocol support
294 - iLBC encoding/decoding via libilbc
295 - Microsoft Screen 1 decoder
297 - audio channel mapping filter
298 - Microsoft ATC Screen decoder
300 - TechSmith Screen Codec 2 decoder
301 - AAC encoding via libfdk-aac
302 - Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen decoder
303 - RTMPS protocol support
304 - RTMPTS protocol support
305 - RTMPE protocol support
306 - RTMPTE protocol support
307 - showwaves and showspectrum filter
308 - LucasArts SMUSH SANM playback support
309 - LucasArts SMUSH VIMA audio decoder (ADPCM)
310 - LucasArts SMUSH demuxer
311 - SAMI, RealText and SubViewer demuxers and decoders
312 - Heart Of Darkness PAF playback support
315 - new option: -progress
316 - 3GPP Timed Text encoder/decoder
317 - GeoTIFF decoder support
318 - ffmpeg -(no)stdin option
319 - Opus decoder using libopus
320 - caca output device using libcaca
321 - alphaextract and alphamerge filters
324 - Canopus Lossless Codec decoder
325 - bitmap subtitles in filters (experimental and temporary)
326 - MP2 encoding via TwoLAME
332 - SubRip encoder and decoder without embedded timing
333 - edge detection filter
335 - ffmpeg -shortest option is now per-output file
336 -pass and -passlogfile are now per-output stream
337 - volume measurement filter
339 - Microsoft Screen 2 decoder
340 - smartblur filter ported from MPlayer
342 - decimate filter ported from MPlayer
343 - RTP depacketization of JPEG
344 - Smooth Streaming live segmenter muxer
346 - sendcmd and asendcmd filters
347 - WebVTT demuxer and decoder (simple tags supported)
348 - RTP packetization of JPEG
349 - faststart option in the MOV/MP4 muxer
350 - support for building with MSVC
355 - Fixes: CVE-2012-2772, CVE-2012-2774, CVE-2012-2775, CVE-2012-2776, CVE-2012-2777,
356 CVE-2012-2779, CVE-2012-2782, CVE-2012-2783, CVE-2012-2784, CVE-2012-2785,
357 CVE-2012-2786, CVE-2012-2787, CVE-2012-2788, CVE-2012-2789, CVE-2012-2790,
358 CVE-2012-2791, CVE-2012-2792, CVE-2012-2793, CVE-2012-2794, CVE-2012-2795,
359 CVE-2012-2796, CVE-2012-2797, CVE-2012-2798, CVE-2012-2799, CVE-2012-2800,
360 CVE-2012-2801, CVE-2012-2802, CVE-2012-2803, CVE-2012-2804,
361 - v408 Quicktime and Microsoft AYUV Uncompressed 4:4:4:4 encoder and decoder
363 - CDXL demuxer and decoder
364 - Apple ProRes encoder
365 - ffprobe -count_packets and -count_frames options
366 - Sun Rasterfile Encoder
367 - ID3v2 attached pictures reading and writing
368 - WMA Lossless decoder
371 - libutvideo encoder wrapper (--enable-libutvideo)
374 - XBM encoder and decoder
375 - RealAudio Lossless decoder
378 - Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes demuxer
379 - OpenEXR image decoder
381 - drop support for ffmpeg without libavfilter
382 - drawtext video filter: fontconfig support
383 - ffmpeg -benchmark_all option
384 - super2xsai filter ported from libmpcodecs
385 - add libavresample audio conversion library for compatibility
387 - Avid Meridien (AVUI) encoder and decoder
388 - accept + prefix to -pix_fmt option to disable automatic conversions.
389 - complete audio filtering in libavfilter and ffmpeg
394 - ffv1: support (draft) version 1.3
399 - Fixes: CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3934, CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3936,
400 CVE-2011-3937, CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3941, CVE-2011-3944,
401 CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2011-3947, CVE-2011-3949,
402 CVE-2011-3950, CVE-2011-3951, CVE-2011-3952
403 - v410 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit encoder and decoder
404 - SBaGen (SBG) binaural beats script demuxer
406 - Timecode extraction in DV and MOV
407 - thumbnail video filter
408 - XML output in ffprobe
409 - asplit audio filter
410 - tinterlace video filter
411 - astreamsync audio filter
412 - amerge audio filter
413 - ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxer
416 - XWD encoder and decoder
417 - Automatic thread count based on detection number of (available) CPU cores
418 - y41p Brooktree Uncompressed 4:1:1 12-bit encoder and decoder
419 - ffprobe -show_error option
420 - Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer codec
421 - v308 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 encoder and decoder
422 - yuv4 libquicktime packed 4:2:0 encoder and decoder
423 - ffprobe -show_frames option
424 - silencedetect audio filter
425 - ffprobe -show_program_version, -show_library_versions, -show_versions options
426 - rv34: frame-level multi-threading
427 - optimized iMDCT transform on x86 using SSE for for mpegaudiodec
428 - Improved PGS subtitle decoder
429 - dumpgraph option to lavfi device
430 - r210 and r10k encoders
431 - ffwavesynth decoder
434 - support encoding and decoding 4-channel SGI images
439 - openal input device added
440 - boxblur filter added
442 - Flash Screen Video 2 decoder
443 - lavfi input device added
444 - added avconv, which is almost the same for now, except
445 for a few incompatible changes in the options, which will hopefully make them
446 easier to use. The changes are:
447 * The options placement is now strictly enforced! While in theory the
448 options for ffmpeg should be given in [input options] -i INPUT [output
449 options] OUTPUT order, in practice it was possible to give output options
450 before the -i and it mostly worked. Except when it didn't - the behavior was
451 a bit inconsistent. In avconv, it is not possible to mix input and output
452 options. All non-global options are reset after an input or output filename.
453 * All per-file options are now truly per-file - they apply only to the next
454 input or output file and specifying different values for different files
455 will now work properly (notably -ss and -t options).
456 * All per-stream options are now truly per-stream - it is possible to
457 specify which stream(s) should a given option apply to. See the Stream
458 specifiers section in the avconv manual for details.
459 * In ffmpeg some options (like -newvideo/-newaudio/...) are irregular in the
460 sense that they're specified after the output filename instead of before,
461 like all other options. In avconv this irregularity is removed, all options
462 apply to the next input or output file.
463 * -newvideo/-newaudio/-newsubtitle options were removed. Not only were they
464 irregular and highly confusing, they were also redundant. In avconv the -map
465 option will create new streams in the output file and map input streams to
466 them. E.g. avconv -i INPUT -map 0 OUTPUT will create an output stream for
467 each stream in the first input file.
468 * The -map option now has slightly different and more powerful syntax:
469 + Colons (':') are used to separate file index/stream type/stream index
470 instead of dots. Comma (',') is used to separate the sync stream instead
471 of colon.. This is done for consistency with other options.
472 + It's possible to specify stream type. E.g. -map 0:a:2 creates an
473 output stream from the third input audio stream.
474 + Omitting the stream index now maps all the streams of the given type,
475 not just the first. E.g. -map 0:s creates output streams for all the
476 subtitle streams in the first input file.
477 + Since -map can now match multiple streams, negative mappings were
478 introduced. Negative mappings disable some streams from an already
479 defined map. E.g. '-map 0 -map -0:a:1' means 'create output streams for
480 all the stream in the first input file, except for the second audio
482 * There is a new option -c (or -codec) for choosing the decoder/encoder to
483 use, which allows to precisely specify target stream(s) consistently with
484 other options. E.g. -c:v lib264 sets the codec for all video streams, -c:a:0
485 libvorbis sets the codec for the first audio stream and -c copy copies all
486 the streams without reencoding. Old -vcodec/-acodec/-scodec options are now
488 * It is now possible to precisely specify which stream should an AVOption
489 apply to. E.g. -b:v:0 2M sets the bitrate for the first video stream, while
490 -b:a 128k sets the bitrate for all audio streams. Note that the old -ab 128k
491 syntax is deprecated and will stop working soon.
492 * -map_chapters now takes only an input file index and applies to the next
493 output file. This is consistent with how all the other options work.
494 * -map_metadata now takes only an input metadata specifier and applies to
495 the next output file. Output metadata specifier is now part of the option
496 name, similarly to the AVOptions/map/codec feature above.
497 * -metadata can now be used to set metadata on streams and chapters, e.g.
498 -metadata:s:1 language=eng sets the language of the first stream to 'eng'.
499 This made -vlang/-alang/-slang options redundant, so they were removed.
500 * -qscale option now uses stream specifiers and applies to all streams, not
501 just video. I.e. plain -qscale number would now apply to all streams. To get
502 the old behavior, use -qscale:v. Also there is now a shortcut -q for -qscale
503 and -aq is now an alias for -q:a.
504 * -vbsf/-absf/-sbsf options were removed and replaced by a -bsf option which
505 uses stream specifiers. Use -bsf:v/a/s instead of the old options.
506 * -itsscale option now uses stream specifiers, so its argument is only the
508 * -intra option was removed, use -g 0 for the same effect.
509 * -psnr option was removed, use -flags +psnr for the same effect.
510 * -vf option is now an alias to the new -filter option, which uses stream specifiers.
511 * -vframes/-aframes/-dframes options are now aliases to the new -frames option.
512 * -vtag/-atag/-stag options are now aliases to the new -tag option.
515 - ashowinfo filter added
516 - Windows Media Image decoder
517 - amovie source added
519 - Speex encoder via libspeex
520 - JSON output in ffprobe
522 - Optional C++ Support (needed for libstagefright)
523 - H.264 Decoding on Android via Stagefright
525 - BIN/XBIN/ADF/IDF text file decoder
526 - aconvert audio filter added
527 - audio support to lavfi input device added
528 - libcdio-paranoia input device for audio CD grabbing
529 - Apple ProRes decoder
530 - CELT in Ogg demuxing
531 - G.723.1 demuxer and decoder
532 - libmodplug support (--enable-libmodplug)
533 - VC-1 interlaced decoding
534 - libutvideo wrapper (--enable-libutvideo)
535 - aevalsrc audio source added
537 - Speex encoding via libspeex
538 - 4:2:2 H.264 decoding support
539 - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 H.264 encoding with libx264
540 - Pulseaudio input device
542 - Video Decoder Acceleration (VDA) HWAccel module.
543 - replacement Indeo 3 decoder
544 - new ffmpeg option: -map_channel
545 - volume audio filter added
546 - earwax audio filter added
547 - libv4l2 support (--enable-libv4l2)
548 - TLS/SSL and HTTPS protocol support
549 - AVOptions API rewritten and documented
550 - most of CODEC_FLAG2_*, some CODEC_FLAG_* and many codec-specific fields in
551 AVCodecContext deprecated. Codec private options should be used instead.
552 - Properly working defaults in libx264 wrapper, support for native presets.
553 - Encrypted OMA files support
554 - Discworld II BMV decoding support
556 - OS X Video Decoder Acceleration (VDA) support
557 - compact and csv output in ffprobe
559 - IFF Amiga Continuous Bitmap (ACBM) decoder
561 - CRI ADX audio format muxer and demuxer
562 - Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
563 - Microsoft Windows ICO demuxer
565 - PCM format support in OMA demuxer
567 - new option: -report
568 - Dxtory capture format decoder
570 - Simple segmenting muxer
577 - many many things we forgot because we rather write code than changelogs
578 - WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
579 - low overhead Ogg muxing
581 - VP8 de/encoding via libvpx
582 - Demuxer for On2's IVF format
583 - Pictor/PC Paint decoder
585 - HE-AAC v2 encoding with libaacplus
586 - libfaad2 wrapper removed
587 - DTS-ES extension (XCh) decoding support
589 - RTSP tunneling over HTTP
590 - RTP depacketization of SVQ3
591 - -strict inofficial replaced by -strict unofficial
592 - ffplay -exitonkeydown and -exitonmousedown options added
593 - native GSM / GSM MS decoder
594 - RTP depacketization of QDM2
595 - ANSI/ASCII art playback system
596 - Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
597 - libavcore added (and subsequently removed)
598 - SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
599 - Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
600 - ffprobe -show_packets option added
601 - RTP packetization of Theora and Vorbis
602 - RTP depacketization of MP4A-LATM
603 - RTP packetization and depacketization of VP8
605 - Apple HTTP Live Streaming demuxer
608 - G.722 ADPCM audio encoder/decoder
611 - frei0r wrapper filter
612 - change crop filter syntax to width:height:x:y
613 - make the crop filter accept parametric expressions
614 - make ffprobe accept AVFormatContext options
617 - Demuxer for Leitch/Harris' VR native stream format (LXF)
618 - RTP depacketization of the X-QT QuickTime format
619 - SAP (Session Announcement Protocol, RFC 2974) muxer and demuxer
621 - ffmpeg -crop* options removed
622 - transpose filter added
623 - ffmpeg -force_key_frames option added
624 - demuxer for receiving raw rtp:// URLs without an SDP description
625 - single stream LATM/LOAS decoder
626 - setpts filter added
627 - Win64 support for optimized x86 assembly functions
628 - MJPEG/AVI1 to JPEG/JFIF bitstream filter
629 - ASS subtitle encoder and decoder
630 - IEC 61937 encapsulation for E-AC-3, TrueHD, DTS-HD (for HDMI passthrough)
631 - overlay filter added
632 - rename aspect filter to setdar, and pixelaspect to setsar
634 - Mobotix .mxg demuxer
635 - frei0r source added
636 - hqdn3d filter added
637 - RTP depacketization of QCELP
639 - gradfun filter added
641 - replace the ocv_smooth filter with a more generic ocv filter
642 - Windows Televison (WTV) demuxer
643 - FFmpeg metadata format muxer and demuxer
644 - SubRip (srt) subtitle encoder and decoder
645 - floating-point AC-3 encoder added
647 - ffmpeg -copytb option added
649 - Wing Commander IV movies decoder added
651 - Bink version 'b' audio and video decoder
652 - Bitmap Brothers JV playback system
653 - Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler
654 - sndio support for playback and record
655 - Linux framebuffer input device added
656 - Chronomaster DFA decoder
658 - MicroDVD subtitle file muxer and demuxer
659 - Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
660 - fieldorder video filter added
661 - AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
662 - AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
664 - Mobotix MxPEG decoder
665 - VP8 frame-multithreading
666 - NEON optimizations for VP8
667 - Lots of deprecated API cruft removed
668 - fft and imdct optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
669 - showinfo filter added
670 - SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
671 - Apple Core Audio Format muxer
672 - 9bit and 10bit per sample support in the H.264 decoder
673 - 9bit and 10bit FFV1 encoding / decoding
675 - select filter added
676 - sdl output device added
677 - libmpcodecs video filter support (3 times as many filters than before)
678 - mpeg2 aspect ratio dection fixed
679 - libxvid aspect pickiness fixed
680 - Frame multithreaded decoding
681 - E-AC-3 audio encoder
682 - ac3enc: add channel coupling support
683 - floating-point sample format support to the ac3, eac3, dca, aac, and vorbis decoders.
684 - H264/MPEG frame-level multi-threading
685 - All av_metadata_* functions renamed to av_dict_* and moved to libavutil
686 - 4:4:4 H.264 decoding support
687 - 10-bit H.264 optimizations for x86
688 - lut, lutrgb, and lutyuv filters added
689 - buffersink libavfilter sink added
690 - Bump libswscale for recently reported ABI break
691 - New J2K encoder (via OpenJPEG)
696 - all the changes for 0.8, but keeping API/ABI compatibility with the 0.6 release
701 - PB-frame decoding for H.263
702 - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
703 - deprecated old scaler removed
705 - Alpha channel scaler
707 - RTP packetization of H.263
708 - RTP packetization of AMR
709 - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
710 - CorePNG decoding support
711 - Cook multichannel decoding support
712 - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
713 - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
714 - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
715 - V210 decoder and encoder
716 - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
718 - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
719 - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
721 - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
722 - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
723 - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
724 - experimental AAC encoder
725 - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
726 - RTMP support in libavformat
727 - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
729 - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
731 - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
732 - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
734 - Core Audio Format demuxer
736 - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
737 - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
738 - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
739 - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
741 - CDG demuxer and decoder
743 - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
744 - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
746 - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
747 - RTP depacketization of H.263
748 - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
749 - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
750 - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
753 - RTP depacketization of AMR
759 - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
760 - VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
761 - RTP depacketization of Theora
762 - HTTP Digest authentication
763 - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
764 - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
765 - spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
766 - unsharp video filter
767 - RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
768 - Dirac in Ogg demuxing
769 - seek to keyframes in Ogg
770 - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Theora decoding
771 - 35% faster VP3/Theora decoding
772 - faster AAC decoding
773 - faster H.264 decoding
774 - RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder
779 - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
780 - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
781 - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
782 - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
783 - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
784 - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
785 - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
786 - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
787 - H.261 video encoder
789 - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
790 - Shorten audio decoder
792 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
793 - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
794 - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
795 - Indeo 2 video decoder
796 - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
797 - Snow video encoder/decoder
798 - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
799 - Vorbis audio decoder
800 - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
801 - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
802 - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
803 - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
804 - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
806 - Real Cooker audio decoder
807 - TrueSpeech audio decoder
808 - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
809 - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
811 - build system improvements
812 - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
813 - CamStudio video decoder
814 - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
815 - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
816 - Creative VOC file reading and writing
817 - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
818 - Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
819 - improved Theora/VP3 decoder
820 - True Audio (TTA) decoder
821 - AVS demuxer and video decoder
823 - Smacker demuxer and decoder
824 - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
826 - MPEG-2 intra VLC support
827 - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
828 - Flash Screen Video decoder
830 - Chinese AVS decoder
833 - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
836 - VMware video decoder
839 - WavPack lossless audio decoder
840 - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
841 - Vorbis audio encoder
842 - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
843 - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
845 - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
846 - GIF picture decoder
847 - Intel Music Coder decoder
848 - Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
850 - Flash Screen Video encoder
851 - Theora encoding via libtheora
854 - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
856 - DXA demuxer and decoder
858 - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
859 - Blackfin optimizations
860 - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
861 - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
864 - V.Flash PTX decoder
865 - RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
866 - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
867 - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
868 - sws_flags command line option
872 - OS/2 support removed and restored again
875 - additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
877 - slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
878 - Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
879 - AMV audio and video decoder
881 - H.264 PAFF decoding
882 - Nellymoser ASAO decoder
883 - Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
884 - libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
885 - IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
886 - Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
887 - The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
888 - PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
889 - Sun Rasterfile decoder
890 - TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
891 - Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
892 - AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
893 - QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
895 - iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
897 - MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
898 - RL2 demuxer / decoder
901 - non-recursive Makefiles
903 - MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
907 - Electronic Arts CMV decoder
908 - Motion Pixels Video decoder
909 - Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
910 - removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
911 - D-Cinema audio muxer
912 - Electronic Arts TGV decoder
913 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
915 - floating point PCM encoder/decoder
917 - DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
918 - E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
919 - Nellymoser ASAO encoder
920 - ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
921 - liba52 wrapper removed
922 - SVQ3 watermark decoding support
923 - Speex decoding via libspeex
924 - Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
926 - QCELP / PureVoice decoder
928 - hybrid WavPack support
929 - R3D REDCODE demuxer
930 - ALSA support for playback and record
931 - Electronic Arts TQI decoder
932 - OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
933 - NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
934 - Gopher client support
936 - generic metadata API
937 - flash ScreenVideo2 encoder
942 - DV encoder, DV muxer
943 - Microsoft RLE video decoder
944 - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
945 - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
946 - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
947 - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
949 - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
950 - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
951 - Id Quake II CIN playback support
953 - FLIC playback support
954 - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
955 - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
956 - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
957 - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
961 - rate distortion optimal cbp support
962 - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
963 - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
964 - AAC encoding with libfaac
965 - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
966 - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
967 - Theora/VP3 decoding support
968 - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
969 - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
970 - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
971 - floating point AAN DCT
972 - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
974 - new audio/video parser API
976 - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
977 - missing last frame fixes
978 - seek by mouse in ffplay
979 - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
980 - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
981 - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
983 - H.263 slice structured mode
984 - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
985 - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
986 - MB type & QP visualization
987 - frame stepping for ffplay
988 - interlaced motion estimation
989 - alternate scantable support
990 - SVCD scan offset support
993 - quantizer noise shaping
994 - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
996 - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
997 - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
998 - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
1000 - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
1001 - H.263+ custom pcf support
1002 - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
1004 - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
1005 - H.264 loop filter support
1006 - H.264 CABAC support
1007 - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
1008 - improved VCD support
1009 - audio timestamp drift compensation
1010 - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
1011 - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
1012 - better image scaling
1014 - correctly interleave packets during encoding
1015 - VIS optimized motion compensation
1016 - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
1017 - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
1018 - more accurate deblock filter
1020 - many optimizations and bugfixes
1021 - FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
1026 - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
1027 - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
1028 - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
1030 - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
1031 - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
1032 - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
1037 - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
1038 (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
1039 - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
1040 - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
1041 Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
1042 - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
1043 - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
1044 than HuffYUV) (Michael)
1045 - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
1046 - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
1047 alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
1048 - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
1049 for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
1050 - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
1052 - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
1053 - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
1054 - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
1055 - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
1056 - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
1057 - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
1058 - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
1059 - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
1060 - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
1061 - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
1062 - qpel encoding (Michael)
1063 - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
1064 - chroma ME (Michael)
1065 - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
1066 - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
1067 - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
1068 - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
1069 - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
1070 - ASV2 codec (Michael)
1071 - CLJR decoder (Alex)
1073 .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
1078 - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
1080 - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
1081 - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
1082 - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
1083 - added prototype ffplay program
1084 - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
1085 - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
1086 - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
1087 - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
1088 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
1089 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
1090 - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
1091 - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
1092 - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
1093 - added first regression tests
1094 - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
1095 - new demux API for libav
1096 - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
1097 - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
1098 - two pass video encoding (Michael)
1099 - new video rate control (Michael)
1100 - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
1101 - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
1102 - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
1103 - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
1104 - added DV video decoder
1105 - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
1106 - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
1107 - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
1108 - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
1109 - simple stats output (Juanjo)
1110 - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
1115 - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
1116 - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
1117 - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
1118 - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
1119 Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
1121 - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
1122 - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
1123 - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
1124 - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
1125 pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
1126 - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
1127 - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
1128 - added support for MPlayer interface
1129 - added macroblock skip optimization
1130 - added MJPEG decoder
1131 - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
1132 - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
1133 <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
1134 - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
1135 - added deinterlacing option
1137 - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
1138 - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
1139 - Windows porting of file converter
1140 - added MJPEG raw format (input/output)
1141 - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
1146 - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
1147 <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
1148 - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
1150 - added prototype RM demuxer
1151 - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
1152 - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
1153 header does not include them)
1154 - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
1155 play them (only tested video)
1156 - fixed H.263 white bug
1157 - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
1158 - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
1159 - added CPU autodetection
1160 - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
1162 - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
1164 - added fractional frame rate support
1165 - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
1171 - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
1172 - fixed raw yuv output
1173 - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
1174 - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
1175 - added B-frame handling in video core
1176 - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
1177 - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
1178 - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
1179 +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
1180 this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
1181 - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
1182 - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
1183 - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
1185 - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
1186 <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
1187 instead of a protocol)
1192 - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
1193 (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
1194 missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
1195 - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
1196 can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
1197 - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
1198 - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
1200 - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
1201 and image sizes non-multiple of 16
1202 - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
1203 - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
1204 - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
1209 - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
1210 of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
1211 - added -me option to set motion estimation method
1212 (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
1213 - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
1216 - improved dct_quantize speed
1217 - factorized some motion estimation code
1222 - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
1223 multistream support to ffmpeg.
1224 - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
1226 - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
1227 mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
1228 - added multi live feed support in ffserver
1229 - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
1230 external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
1232 - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
1233 done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
1235 - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
1236 - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
1238 - added WAV format support
1239 - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
1240 - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
1241 (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
1242 - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
1243 - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
1244 - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
1250 - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
1255 - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
1256 real time at low resolution.
1257 - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
1258 bitrates and large GOP size
1261 version 0.3.2: small fixes
1267 version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
1270 - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
1271 - added sound for flash format (not tested)
1274 version 0.3: initial public release