1 Upcoming version 0.4.8:
2 - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
3 - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
5 - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
6 - Interplay MVE demuxer and DPCM audio decoder (Mike Melanson)
7 - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
11 - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from a mplayerhq
12 (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
13 - Current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
14 - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
15 Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
16 - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
17 - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
18 then huffyuv) (Michael)
19 - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs has been added (Various)
20 - Tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
21 alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
22 - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
23 for multi platform support (fabrice)
24 - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
26 - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
27 - 3gp support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
28 - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
30 - Better Multi platform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
31 - Altivec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
32 - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
33 - New public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
34 - VOB Streaming support (Brian Foley)
35 - Better MP3 Autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
36 - qpel encoding (Michael)
37 - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
39 - 5 comparission functions for ME (Michael)
40 - b frame encoding speedup (Michael)
41 - wmv2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
42 - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
43 - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
44 - ASV2 codec (Michael)
47 .. And lots more new enhances and fixes.
51 - completely new integer only mpeg audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
53 - recoded dct and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on
55 - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder.
56 - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected wav/avi/asf pcm issues.
57 - added prototype ffplay program.
58 - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder. (Juanjo)
59 - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263. (Juanjo)
60 - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263. (Juanjo)
61 - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder. (Juanjo)
62 - now we can decode H.263 streams found on QuickTime files. (Juanjo)
63 - now we can decode H.263 streams found on VIVO v1 files.(Juanjo)
64 - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
65 - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode. (Juanjo)
66 - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame. (Juanjo)
67 - added first regression tests
68 - added MPEG2 TS demux
69 - new demux API for libav
70 - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
71 - faster and entropy controlled motion search (Michael)
72 - two pass video encoding (Michael)
73 - new video rate control (Michael)
74 - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
75 - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
76 - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
77 - high quality encoding mode : tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
78 - added DV video decoder
79 - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
80 - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support. (Juanjo)
81 - VCD MPEG-PS mode. (Juanjo)
82 - PSNR stuff. (Juanjo)
83 - Simple stats output. (Juanjo)
84 - 16-bit and 15-bit rgb/bgr/gbr support (Bisqwit)
88 - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>).
89 - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k@mail.ru>).
90 - added configure system (actually a small shell script).
91 - added mpeg audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
92 Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
94 - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt.
95 - added Intel H263 decoding support ('I263' avi fourCC)
96 - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing).
97 - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
98 pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
99 - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems).
100 - fixed opendivx bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding).
101 - added support for mplayer interface.
102 - added macroblock skip optimization.
103 - added MJPEG decoder.
104 - added mmx/mmxext idct from libmpeg2.
105 - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
106 <celer@shell.scrypt.net>).
107 - added pixel format convertion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM).
108 - added deinterlacing option.
110 - mpeg4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm@pacbell.net>).
111 - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer@free.fr>).
112 - Windows porting of file converter.
113 - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput).
114 - added JPEG image format support (input/output).
118 - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
119 <bjorn.e.lindgren@telia.com>).
120 - added mpeg demux (mpeg 1 and 2 compatible).
122 - added prototype RM demux.
123 - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman).
124 - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for mpeg, because the
125 header does not include them).
126 - fixed header generation in mpeg1, AVI and ASF mux : wmplayer can now
127 play them (only tested video).
128 - fixed h263 white bug.
129 - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter.
130 - add mmx code for polyphase img resample filter.
131 - added CPU autodetect.
132 - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM use them).
133 - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
135 - added fractional frame rate support.
136 - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
141 - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@amsat.org>).
142 - fixed raw yuv output.
143 - added motion rounding support in MPEG4.
144 - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4.
145 - added B frame handling in video core.
146 - added full MPEG1 decoding support.
147 - added partial (frame only) MPEG2 support.
148 - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
149 +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
150 this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
151 - Halfpel motion estimation after mb type selection (JuanJo).
152 - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format.
153 - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
155 - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
156 <lists@reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
157 instead of a protocol).
161 - added H263/MPEG4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG4 decoding support
162 (for openDIVX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
163 missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
164 - added prototype MPEG1 decoder. Only I and P frames handled yet (it
165 can decode ffmpeg mpegs :-)).
166 - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
167 - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
169 - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
170 and image sizes non multiple of 16.
171 - added support for AC prediction (decoding only).
172 - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y).
173 - Added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo).
177 - added MSMPEG4 (aka DIVX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
178 of avi and asf to DIV3.
179 - added -me option to set motion estimation method
180 (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
181 - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
184 - improved dct_quantize speed.
185 - factorized some motion estimation code.
189 - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added multi
190 stream support to ffmpeg.
191 - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
193 - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
194 mmx/see optimisation). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
195 - added multi live feed support in ffserver.
196 - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
197 external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
199 - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (wav and avi half
200 done). Added proper support for audio/video file convertion in
202 - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver.
203 - redesigning I/O subsystem : now using URL based input and output
205 - added wav format support.
206 - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully.
207 - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Diferences)
208 (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo@atmlab.utfsm.cl>).
209 - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo).
210 - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo).
211 - changed directories : libav for format handling, libavcodec for
216 - added stereo in mpeg audio encoder.
220 - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
221 real time at low resolution.
222 - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
223 bitrates and large gop size.
225 version 0.3.2: small fixes
230 version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
233 - added mpeg4 codec compatible with open divx. It is based on the h263
235 - added sound for flash format (not tested)
237 version 0.3: initial public release