1 Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
2 releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
6 - XWD encoder and decoder
7 - Support for fragmentation in the mov/mp4 muxer
8 - ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxer
9 - CDXL demuxer and decoder
10 - Apple ProRes encoder
11 - Sun Rasterfile Encoder
13 - ID3v2 attached pictures reading and writing
14 - WMA Lossless decoder
16 - RealAudio Lossless decoder
18 - drop support for avconv without libavfilter
19 - add libavresample audio conversion library
20 - audio filters support in libavfilter and avconv
31 - Automatic thread count based on detection number of (available) CPU cores
32 - Deprecate libpostproc. If desired, the switch --enable-postproc will
33 enable it but it may be removed in a later Libav release.
34 - rv34: frame-level multi-threading
35 - optimized iMDCT transform on x86 using SSE for for mpegaudiodec
41 - Flash Screen Video 2 decoder
42 - ffplay/ffprobe/ffserver renamed to avplay/avprobe/avserver
43 - ffmpeg deprecated, added avconv, which is almost the same for now, except
44 for a few incompatible changes in the options, which will hopefully make them
45 easier to use. The changes are:
46 * The options placement is now strictly enforced! While in theory the
47 options for ffmpeg should be given in [input options] -i INPUT [output
48 options] OUTPUT order, in practice it was possible to give output options
49 before the -i and it mostly worked. Except when it didn't - the behavior was
50 a bit inconsistent. In avconv, it is not possible to mix input and output
51 options. All non-global options are reset after an input or output filename.
52 * All per-file options are now truly per-file - they apply only to the next
53 input or output file and specifying different values for different files
54 will now work properly (notably -ss and -t options).
55 * All per-stream options are now truly per-stream - it is possible to
56 specify which stream(s) should a given option apply to. See the Stream
57 specifiers section in the avconv manual for details.
58 * In ffmpeg some options (like -newvideo/-newaudio/...) are irregular in the
59 sense that they're specified after the output filename instead of before,
60 like all other options. In avconv this irregularity is removed, all options
61 apply to the next input or output file.
62 * -newvideo/-newaudio/-newsubtitle options were removed. Not only were they
63 irregular and highly confusing, they were also redundant. In avconv the -map
64 option will create new streams in the output file and map input streams to
65 them. E.g. avconv -i INPUT -map 0 OUTPUT will create an output stream for
66 each stream in the first input file.
67 * The -map option now has slightly different and more powerful syntax:
68 + Colons (':') are used to separate file index/stream type/stream index
69 instead of dots. Comma (',') is used to separate the sync stream instead
70 of colon.. This is done for consistency with other options.
71 + It's possible to specify stream type. E.g. -map 0:a:2 creates an
72 output stream from the third input audio stream.
73 + Omitting the stream index now maps all the streams of the given type,
74 not just the first. E.g. -map 0:s creates output streams for all the
75 subtitle streams in the first input file.
76 + Since -map can now match multiple streams, negative mappings were
77 introduced. Negative mappings disable some streams from an already
78 defined map. E.g. '-map 0 -map -0:a:1' means 'create output streams for
79 all the stream in the first input file, except for the second audio
81 * There is a new option -c (or -codec) for choosing the decoder/encoder to
82 use, which allows to precisely specify target stream(s) consistently with
83 other options. E.g. -c:v lib264 sets the codec for all video streams, -c:a:0
84 libvorbis sets the codec for the first audio stream and -c copy copies all
85 the streams without reencoding. Old -vcodec/-acodec/-scodec options are now
87 * It is now possible to precisely specify which stream should an AVOption
88 apply to. E.g. -b:v:0 2M sets the bitrate for the first video stream, while
89 -b:a 128k sets the bitrate for all audio streams. Note that the old -ab 128k
90 syntax is deprecated and will stop working soon.
91 * -map_chapters now takes only an input file index and applies to the next
92 output file. This is consistent with how all the other options work.
93 * -map_metadata now takes only an input metadata specifier and applies to
94 the next output file. Output metadata specifier is now part of the option
95 name, similarly to the AVOptions/map/codec feature above.
96 * -metadata can now be used to set metadata on streams and chapters, e.g.
97 -metadata:s:1 language=eng sets the language of the first stream to 'eng'.
98 This made -vlang/-alang/-slang options redundant, so they were removed.
99 * -qscale option now uses stream specifiers and applies to all streams, not
100 just video. I.e. plain -qscale number would now apply to all streams. To get
101 the old behavior, use -qscale:v. Also there is now a shortcut -q for -qscale
102 and -aq is now an alias for -q:a.
103 * -vbsf/-absf/-sbsf options were removed and replaced by a -bsf option which
104 uses stream specifiers. Use -bsf:v/a/s instead of the old options.
105 * -itsscale option now uses stream specifiers, so its argument is only the
107 * -intra option was removed, use -g 0 for the same effect.
108 * -psnr option was removed, use -flags +psnr for the same effect.
109 * -vf option is now an alias to the new -filter option, which uses stream specifiers.
110 * -vframes/-aframes/-dframes options are now aliases to the new -frames option.
111 * -vtag/-atag/-stag options are now aliases to the new -tag option.
113 - Windows Media Image decoder
117 - libcdio-paranoia input device for audio CD grabbing
119 - Apple ProRes decoder
120 - CELT in Ogg demuxing
121 - VC-1 interlaced decoding
122 - lut, lutrgb, and lutyuv filters
125 - Speex encoding via libspeex
126 - 4:2:2 H.264 decoding support
127 - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 H.264 encoding with libx264
128 - Pulseaudio input device
129 - replacement Indeo 3 decoder
130 - TLS/SSL and HTTPS protocol support
131 - AVOptions API rewritten and documented
132 - most of CODEC_FLAG2_*, some CODEC_FLAG_* and many codec-specific fields in
133 AVCodecContext deprecated. Codec private options should be used instead.
134 - Properly working defaults in libx264 wrapper, support for native presets.
135 - Encrypted OMA files support
136 - Discworld II BMV decoding support
138 - OS X Video Decoder Acceleration (VDA) support
139 - CRI ADX audio format muxer and demuxer
140 - Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
141 - PCM format support in OMA demuxer
143 - Dxtory capture format decoder
144 - v410 QuickTime uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit encoder and decoder
146 - Simple segmenting muxer
153 - E-AC-3 audio encoder
154 - ac3enc: add channel coupling support
155 - floating-point sample format support for (E-)AC-3, DCA, AAC, Vorbis decoders
156 - H.264/MPEG frame-level multithreading
157 - av_metadata_* functions renamed to av_dict_* and moved to libavutil
158 - 4:4:4 H.264 decoding support
159 - 10-bit H.264 optimizations for x86
160 - bump libswscale for recently reported ABI break
165 - VP8 frame-level multithreading
166 - NEON optimizations for VP8
167 - removed a lot of deprecated API cruft
168 - FFT and IMDCT optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
170 - SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
171 - ffmpeg no longer quits after the 'q' key is pressed; use 'ctrl+c' instead
172 - 9bit and 10bit per sample support in the H.264 decoder
177 - WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
178 - low overhead Ogg muxing
180 - VP8 de/encoding via libvpx
181 - Demuxer for On2's IVF format
182 - Pictor/PC Paint decoder
184 - libfaad2 wrapper removed
185 - DTS-ES extension (XCh) decoding support
187 - RTSP tunneling over HTTP
188 - RTP depacketization of SVQ3
189 - -strict inofficial replaced by -strict unofficial
190 - ffplay -exitonkeydown and -exitonmousedown options added
191 - native GSM / GSM MS decoder
192 - RTP depacketization of QDM2
193 - ANSI/ASCII art playback system
194 - Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
195 - SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
196 - Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
197 - ffprobe -show_packets option added
198 - RTP packetization of Theora and Vorbis
199 - RTP depacketization of MP4A-LATM
200 - RTP packetization and depacketization of VP8
202 - Apple HTTP Live Streaming demuxer
205 - G.722 ADPCM audio encoder/decoder
208 - frei0r wrapper filter
209 - change crop filter syntax to width:height:x:y
210 - make the crop filter accept parametric expressions
211 - make ffprobe accept AVFormatContext options
214 - Demuxer for Leitch/Harris' VR native stream format (LXF)
215 - RTP depacketization of the X-QT QuickTime format
216 - SAP (Session Announcement Protocol, RFC 2974) muxer and demuxer
218 - ffmpeg -crop* options removed
219 - transpose filter added
220 - ffmpeg -force_key_frames option added
221 - demuxer for receiving raw rtp:// URLs without an SDP description
222 - single stream LATM/LOAS decoder
223 - setpts filter added
224 - Win64 support for optimized x86 assembly functions
225 - MJPEG/AVI1 to JPEG/JFIF bitstream filter
226 - ASS subtitle encoder and decoder
227 - IEC 61937 encapsulation for E-AC-3, TrueHD, DTS-HD (for HDMI passthrough)
228 - overlay filter added
229 - rename aspect filter to setdar, and pixelaspect to setsar
231 - Mobotix .mxg demuxer
232 - frei0r source added
233 - hqdn3d filter added
234 - RTP depacketization of QCELP
236 - gradfun filter added
238 - replace the ocv_smooth filter with a more generic ocv filter
239 - Windows Televison (WTV) demuxer
240 - FFmpeg metadata format muxer and demuxer
241 - SubRip (srt) subtitle decoder
242 - floating-point AC-3 encoder added
244 - ffmpeg -copytb option added
246 - Wing Commander IV movies decoder added
248 - Bink version 'b' audio and video decoder
249 - Bitmap Brothers JV playback system
250 - Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler
251 - sndio support for playback and record
252 - Linux framebuffer input device added
253 - Chronomaster DFA decoder
254 - Mobotix MxPEG decoder
255 - AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
256 - AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
258 - fieldorder video filter added
263 - PB-frame decoding for H.263
264 - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
265 - deprecated old scaler removed
267 - Alpha channel scaler
269 - RTP packetization of H.263
270 - RTP packetization of AMR
271 - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
272 - CorePNG decoding support
273 - Cook multichannel decoding support
274 - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
275 - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
276 - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
277 - V210 decoder and encoder
278 - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
280 - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
281 - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
283 - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
284 - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
285 - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
286 - experimental AAC encoder
287 - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
288 - RTMP support in libavformat
289 - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
291 - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
293 - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
294 - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
296 - Core Audio Format demuxer
298 - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
299 - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
300 - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
301 - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
303 - CDG demuxer and decoder
305 - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
306 - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
308 - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
309 - RTP depacketization of H.263
310 - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
311 - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
312 - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
315 - RTP depacketization of AMR
321 - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
322 - VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
323 - RTP depacketization of Theora
324 - HTTP Digest authentication
325 - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
326 - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
327 - spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
328 - unsharp video filter
329 - RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
330 - Dirac in Ogg demuxing
331 - seek to keyframes in Ogg
332 - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Theora decoding
333 - 35% faster VP3/Theora decoding
334 - faster AAC decoding
335 - faster H.264 decoding
336 - RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder
341 - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
342 - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
343 - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
344 - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
345 - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
346 - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
347 - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
348 - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
349 - H.261 video encoder
351 - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
352 - Shorten audio decoder
354 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
355 - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
356 - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
357 - Indeo 2 video decoder
358 - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
359 - Snow video encoder/decoder
360 - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
361 - Vorbis audio decoder
362 - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
363 - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
364 - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
365 - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
366 - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
368 - Real Cooker audio decoder
369 - TrueSpeech audio decoder
370 - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
371 - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
373 - build system improvements
374 - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
375 - CamStudio video decoder
376 - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
377 - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
378 - Creative VOC file reading and writing
379 - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
380 - Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
381 - improved Theora/VP3 decoder
382 - True Audio (TTA) decoder
383 - AVS demuxer and video decoder
385 - Smacker demuxer and decoder
386 - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
388 - MPEG-2 intra VLC support
389 - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
390 - Flash Screen Video decoder
392 - Chinese AVS decoder
395 - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
398 - VMware video decoder
401 - WavPack lossless audio decoder
402 - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
403 - Vorbis audio encoder
404 - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
405 - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
407 - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
408 - GIF picture decoder
409 - Intel Music Coder decoder
410 - Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
412 - Flash Screen Video encoder
413 - Theora encoding via libtheora
416 - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
418 - DXA demuxer and decoder
420 - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
421 - Blackfin optimizations
422 - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
423 - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
426 - V.Flash PTX decoder
427 - RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
428 - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
429 - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
430 - sws_flags command line option
434 - OS/2 support removed and restored again
437 - additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
439 - slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
440 - Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
441 - AMV audio and video decoder
443 - H.264 PAFF decoding
444 - Nellymoser ASAO decoder
445 - Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
446 - libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
447 - IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
448 - Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
449 - The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
450 - PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
451 - Sun Rasterfile decoder
452 - TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
453 - Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
454 - AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
455 - QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
457 - iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
459 - MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
460 - RL2 demuxer / decoder
463 - non-recursive Makefiles
465 - MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
469 - Electronic Arts CMV decoder
470 - Motion Pixels Video decoder
471 - Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
472 - removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
473 - D-Cinema audio muxer
474 - Electronic Arts TGV decoder
475 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
477 - floating point PCM encoder/decoder
479 - DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
480 - E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
481 - Nellymoser ASAO encoder
482 - ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
483 - liba52 wrapper removed
484 - SVQ3 watermark decoding support
485 - Speex decoding via libspeex
486 - Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
488 - QCELP / PureVoice decoder
490 - hybrid WavPack support
491 - R3D REDCODE demuxer
492 - ALSA support for playback and record
493 - Electronic Arts TQI decoder
494 - OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
495 - NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
496 - Gopher client support
498 - generic metadata API
503 - DV encoder, DV muxer
504 - Microsoft RLE video decoder
505 - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
506 - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
507 - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
508 - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
510 - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
511 - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
512 - Id Quake II CIN playback support
514 - FLIC playback support
515 - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
516 - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
517 - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
518 - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
522 - rate distortion optimal cbp support
523 - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
524 - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
525 - AAC encoding with libfaac
526 - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
527 - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
528 - Theora/VP3 decoding support
529 - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
530 - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
531 - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
532 - floating point AAN DCT
533 - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
535 - new audio/video parser API
537 - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
538 - missing last frame fixes
539 - seek by mouse in ffplay
540 - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
541 - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
542 - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
544 - H.263 slice structured mode
545 - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
546 - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
547 - MB type & QP visualization
548 - frame stepping for ffplay
549 - interlaced motion estimation
550 - alternate scantable support
551 - SVCD scan offset support
554 - quantizer noise shaping
555 - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
557 - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
558 - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
559 - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
561 - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
562 - H.263+ custom pcf support
563 - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
565 - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
566 - H.264 loop filter support
567 - H.264 CABAC support
568 - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
569 - improved VCD support
570 - audio timestamp drift compensation
571 - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
572 - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
573 - better image scaling
575 - correctly interleave packets during encoding
576 - VIS optimized motion compensation
577 - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
578 - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
579 - more accurate deblock filter
581 - many optimizations and bugfixes
582 - FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
587 - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
588 - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
589 - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
591 - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
592 - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
593 - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
598 - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
599 (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
600 - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
601 - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
602 Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
603 - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
604 - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
605 than HuffYUV) (Michael)
606 - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
607 - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
608 alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
609 - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
610 for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
611 - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
613 - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
614 - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
615 - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
616 - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
617 - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
618 - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
619 - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
620 - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
621 - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
622 - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
623 - qpel encoding (Michael)
624 - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
625 - chroma ME (Michael)
626 - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
627 - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
628 - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
629 - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
630 - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
631 - ASV2 codec (Michael)
632 - CLJR decoder (Alex)
634 .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
639 - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
641 - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
642 - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
643 - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
644 - added prototype ffplay program
645 - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
646 - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
647 - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
648 - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
649 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
650 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
651 - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
652 - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
653 - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
654 - added first regression tests
655 - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
656 - new demux API for libav
657 - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
658 - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
659 - two pass video encoding (Michael)
660 - new video rate control (Michael)
661 - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
662 - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
663 - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
664 - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
665 - added DV video decoder
666 - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
667 - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
668 - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
669 - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
670 - simple stats output (Juanjo)
671 - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
676 - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
677 - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
678 - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
679 - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
680 Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
682 - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
683 - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
684 - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
685 - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
686 pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
687 - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
688 - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
689 - added support for MPlayer interface
690 - added macroblock skip optimization
691 - added MJPEG decoder
692 - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
693 - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
694 <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
695 - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
696 - added deinterlacing option
698 - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
699 - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
700 - Windows porting of file converter
701 - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
702 - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
707 - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
708 <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
709 - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
711 - added prototype RM demuxer
712 - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
713 - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
714 header does not include them)
715 - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
716 play them (only tested video)
717 - fixed H.263 white bug
718 - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
719 - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
720 - added CPU autodetection
721 - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
723 - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
725 - added fractional frame rate support
726 - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
732 - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
733 - fixed raw yuv output
734 - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
735 - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
736 - added B-frame handling in video core
737 - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
738 - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
739 - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
740 +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
741 this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
742 - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
743 - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
744 - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
746 - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
747 <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
748 instead of a protocol)
753 - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
754 (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
755 missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
756 - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
757 can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
758 - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
759 - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
761 - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
762 and image sizes non-multiple of 16
763 - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
764 - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
765 - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
770 - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
771 of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
772 - added -me option to set motion estimation method
773 (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
774 - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
777 - improved dct_quantize speed
778 - factorized some motion estimation code
783 - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
784 multistream support to ffmpeg.
785 - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
787 - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
788 mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
789 - added multi live feed support in ffserver
790 - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
791 external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
793 - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
794 done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
796 - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
797 - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
799 - added WAV format support
800 - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
801 - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
802 (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
803 - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
804 - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
805 - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
811 - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
816 - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
817 real time at low resolution.
818 - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
819 bitrates and large GOP size
822 version 0.3.2: small fixes
828 version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
831 - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
832 - added sound for flash format (not tested)
835 version 0.3: initial public release