2 - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
3 - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
4 - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
5 - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
6 - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
7 - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
8 - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
9 - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
12 - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
13 - Shorten audio decoder
15 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
16 - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
17 - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
18 - Indeo 2 video decoder
19 - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
20 - Snow video encoder/decoder
21 - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
22 - Vorbis audio decoder
23 - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
24 - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
25 - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
26 - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
27 - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
29 - Real Cooker audio decoder
30 - TrueSpeech audio decoder
31 - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
32 - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
33 - JPEG-LS encoder and decoder
34 - CamStudio video decoder
35 - build system improvements
36 - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
37 - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
38 - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
39 - Creative VOC file reading and writing
40 - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
41 - Zip Blocks Motion Video decoder
42 - Improved Theora/VP3 decoder
43 - True Audio (TTA) decoder
44 - AVS demuxer and video decoder
45 - Smacker demuxer and decoder
46 - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
48 - MPEG-2 intra vlc support
49 - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
50 - Flash Screen Video decoder
54 - DV encoder, DV muxer
55 - Microsoft RLE video decoder
56 - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
57 - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
58 - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
59 - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
61 - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
62 - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
63 - Id Quake II CIN playback support
65 - FLIC playback support
66 - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
67 - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
68 - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
69 - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
73 - rate distortion optimal cbp support
74 - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
75 - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
76 - AAC encoding with libfaac
77 - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
78 - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
79 - Theora/VP3 decoding support
80 - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
81 - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
82 - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
83 - floating point AAN DCT
84 - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
86 - new audio/video parser API
88 - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
89 - missing last frame fixes
90 - seek by mouse in ffplay
91 - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
92 - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
93 - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
95 - H.263 slice structured mode
96 - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
97 - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
98 - MB type & QP visualization
99 - frame stepping for ffplay
100 - interlaced motion estimation
101 - alternate scantable support
102 - SVCD scan offset support
105 - quantizer noise shaping
106 - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
108 - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
109 - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
110 - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
112 - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
113 - H.263+ custom pcf support
114 - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
116 - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
117 - H.264 loop filter support
118 - H.264 CABAC support
119 - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector vissualization
120 - improved VCD support
121 - audio timestamp drift compensation
122 - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
123 - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
124 - better image scaling
126 - correctly interleave packets during encoding
127 - VIS optimized motion compensation
128 - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
129 - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
130 - more accurate deblock filter
132 - many optimizations and bugfixes
136 - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
137 - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
138 - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
140 - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
141 - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
142 - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
146 - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
147 (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
148 - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
149 - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
150 Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
151 - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
152 - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
153 than HuffYUV) (Michael)
154 - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
155 - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
156 alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
157 - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
158 for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
159 - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
161 - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
162 - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
163 - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
164 - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
165 - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
166 - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
167 - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
168 - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
169 - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
170 - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
171 - qpel encoding (Michael)
172 - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
173 - chroma ME (Michael)
174 - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
175 - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
176 - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
177 - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
178 - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
179 - ASV2 codec (Michael)
180 - CLJR decoder (Alex)
182 .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
186 - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
188 - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
189 - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
190 - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
191 - added prototype ffplay program
192 - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
193 - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
194 - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
195 - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
196 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
197 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
198 - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
199 - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
200 - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
201 - added first regression tests
202 - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
203 - new demux API for libav
204 - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
205 - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
206 - two pass video encoding (Michael)
207 - new video rate control (Michael)
208 - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
209 - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
210 - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
211 - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
212 - added DV video decoder
213 - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
214 - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
215 - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
216 - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
217 - simple stats output (Juanjo)
218 - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
222 - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>)
223 - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k@mail.ru>)
224 - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
225 - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
226 Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
228 - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
229 - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
230 - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
231 - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
232 pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
233 - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
234 - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
235 - added support for MPlayer interface
236 - added macroblock skip optimization
237 - added MJPEG decoder
238 - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
239 - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
240 <celer@shell.scrypt.net>)
241 - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
242 - added deinterlacing option
244 - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm@pacbell.net>)
245 - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer@free.fr>).
246 - Windows porting of file converter
247 - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
248 - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
252 - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
253 <bjorn.e.lindgren@telia.com>).
254 - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
256 - added prototype RM demuxer
257 - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
258 - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
259 header does not include them)
260 - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
261 play them (only tested video)
262 - fixed H.263 white bug
263 - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
264 - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
265 - added CPU autodetection
266 - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
268 - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
270 - added fractional frame rate support
271 - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
276 - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@amsat.org>)
277 - fixed raw yuv output
278 - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
279 - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
280 - added B-frame handling in video core
281 - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
282 - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
283 - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
284 +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
285 this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
286 - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
287 - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
288 - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
290 - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
291 <lists@reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
292 instead of a protocol)
296 - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
297 (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
298 missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
299 - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
300 can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
301 - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
302 - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
304 - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
305 and image sizes non-multiple of 16
306 - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
307 - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
308 - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
312 - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
313 of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
314 - added -me option to set motion estimation method
315 (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
316 - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
319 - improved dct_quantize speed
320 - factorized some motion estimation code
324 - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
325 multistream support to ffmpeg.
326 - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
328 - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
329 mmx/see optimisation). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
330 - added multi live feed support in ffserver
331 - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
332 external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
334 - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
335 done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
337 - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
338 - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
340 - added WAV format support
341 - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
342 - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
343 (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo@atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
344 - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
345 - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
346 - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
351 - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
355 - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
356 real time at low resolution.
357 - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
358 bitrates and large GOP size
360 version 0.3.2: small fixes
365 version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
368 - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
369 - added sound for flash format (not tested)
371 version 0.3: initial public release