1 Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
2 releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
5 - aliases and defaults for Ogg subtypes (opus, spx)
6 - HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) packetizer and depacketizer
7 - avplay now exits by default at the end of playback
8 - XCB-based screen-grabber
9 - creating DASH compatible fragmented MP4, MPEG-DASH segmenting muxer
10 - H.261 RTP payload format (RFC 4587) depacketizer and experimental packetizer
13 - OpenH264 encoder wrapper
14 - Support DNx100 (960x720@8)
15 - DXVA2-accelerated HEVC decoding
16 - AAC ELD 480 decoding
17 - Intel QSV-accelerated H.264 decoding
18 - DSS SP decoder and DSS demuxer
19 - RTP depacketizer for AC3 payload format (RFC 4184)
20 - RTP depacketizer for loss tolerant payload format for MP3 audio (RFC 5219)
21 - RTP depacketizer for DV (RFC 6469)
23 - RTP depacketization of T.140 text (RFC 4103)
24 - VP9 RTP payload format (draft 0) experimental depacketizer
26 - DTS lossless extension (XLL) decoding (not lossless, disabled by default)
31 - shuffleplanes filter
32 - replaygain data export
33 - Alias PIX image encoder and decoder
34 - BRender PIX image decoder
35 - Amazing Studio PAF playback support
37 - BMP standalone parser
38 - OpenEXR image decoder
39 - support encoding and decoding 4-channel SGI images
40 - support decoding 16-bit RLE SGI images
42 - LucasArts SMUSH SANM video decoder
43 - LucasArts SMUSH VIMA audio decoder (ADPCM)
44 - LucasArts SMUSH demuxer
45 - MP2 encoding via TwoLAME
47 - Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video decoder
48 - Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 1 & 2 decoder
49 - Silicon Graphics Movie demuxer
50 - On2 AVC (Audio for Video) decoder
51 - support for decoding through DXVA2 in avconv
52 - libbs2b-based stereo-to-binaural audio filter
54 - display matrix export and rotation API
55 - drop avserver, it was unmaintained for years and largely broken
57 - request Icecast metadata by default
58 - support for using metadata in stream specifiers in avtools
64 - support ID3v2 tags in ASF files
65 - reference-counting for AVFrame and AVPacket data
66 - avconv now fails when input options are used for output file
68 - avconv options -filter_script and -filter_complex_script, which allow a
69 filtergraph description to be read from a file
70 - uniform options syntax across all filters
73 - asetpts filter (same as setpts, but for audio)
74 - trim and atrim filters
75 - avconv -t and -ss (output-only) options are now sample-accurate when
77 - Matroska muxer can now put the index at the beginning of the file.
78 - avconv -deinterlace option removed, the yadif filter should be used instead
79 - Apple Intermediate Codec decoder
80 - Escape 130 video decoder
81 - support for slice multithreading in libavfilter
82 - VC-1 interlaced B-frame support
83 - support for WavPack muxing (raw and in Matroska)
85 - WavPack encoding through libwavpack
86 - Added the -n parameter to avconv
88 - when transcoding with avconv (i.e. not streamcopying), -ss is now accurate
89 even when used as an input option. Previous behavior can be restored with
90 the -noaccurate_seek option.
91 - avconv -t option can now be used for inputs, to limit the duration of
92 data read from an input file
93 - Voxware MetaSound decoder
95 - Error Resilient AAC syntax (ER AAC LC) decoding
96 - Low Delay AAC (ER AAC LD) decoding
97 - mux chapters in ASF files
98 - Opus in Ogg demuxing
99 - Enhanced Low Delay AAC (ER AAC ELD) decoding (no LD SBR support)
101 - HNM version 4 demuxer and video decoder
103 - raw HEVC, HEVC in MOV/MP4, HEVC in Matroska, HEVC in MPEG-TS demuxing
104 - remove avplay -vismv option, which has not worked for a long time
106 - setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions
107 - dar variable in the scale filter now returns the actual DAR (i.e. a * sar)
109 - support for decoding through VDPAU in avconv (the -hwaccel option)
110 - remove mp3_header_(de)compress bitstream filters
111 - stereoscopic 3d metadata handling
112 - png standalone parser
113 - WebP encoding via libwebp
116 - Mirillis FIC video decoder
118 - compand audio filter
122 - av_basename and av_dirname
123 - adobe and limelight publisher authentication in RTMP
124 - VDPAU hardware acceleration through normal hwaccel
129 - ashowinfo audio filter
130 - 24-bit FLAC encoding
131 - audio volume filter
132 - deprecated the avconv -vol option. the volume filter is to be used instead.
133 - multi-channel ALAC encoding up to 7.1
134 - TAK demuxer, parser, and decoder
135 - adaptive frame-level multithreading for H.264
139 - metadata (INFO tag) support in WAV muxer
140 - support for building DLLs using MSVC
141 - remove avserver daemon mode
142 - support building on the Plan 9 operating system
143 - ffv1: support version 1.3
148 - XWD encoder and decoder
149 - Support for fragmentation in the mov/mp4 muxer
150 - ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxer
151 - CDXL demuxer and decoder
152 - Apple ProRes encoder
153 - Sun Rasterfile Encoder
155 - ID3v2 attached pictures reading and writing
156 - WMA Lossless decoder
158 - RealAudio Lossless decoder
160 - drop support for avconv without libavfilter
161 - add libavresample audio conversion library
162 - audio filters support in libavfilter and avconv
166 - avprobe output is now standard INI or JSON. The old format can still
167 be used with -of old.
168 - Indeo Audio decoder
169 - channelsplit audio filter
170 - RTMPT protocol support
171 - iLBC encoding/decoding via libilbc
172 - Microsoft Screen 1 decoder
174 - audio channel mapping filter
175 - Microsoft ATC Screen decoder
177 - TechSmith Screen Codec 2 decoder
178 - AAC encoding via libfdk-aac
179 - Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen decoder
180 - RTMPS protocol support
181 - RTMPTS protocol support
182 - JPEG 2000 encoding support through OpenJPEG
183 - G.723.1 demuxer and decoder
184 - RTMPE protocol support
185 - RTMPTE protocol support
186 - Canopus Lossless Codec decoder
187 - avconv -shortest option is now per-output file,
188 -pass and -passlogfile are now per-output stream
190 - Microsoft Screen 2 decoder
191 - RTP depacketization of JPEG
192 - Smooth Streaming live segmenter muxer
193 - RTP packetization of JPEG
194 - Opus decoder and encoder using libopus
195 - remove -same_quant, it hasn't worked for years
196 - support for building with MSVC
207 - Automatic thread count based on detection number of (available) CPU cores
208 - Deprecate libpostproc. If desired, the switch --enable-postproc will
209 enable it but it may be removed in a later Libav release.
210 - rv34: frame-level multi-threading
211 - optimized iMDCT transform on x86 using SSE for for mpegaudiodec
217 - Flash Screen Video 2 decoder
218 - ffplay/ffprobe/ffserver renamed to avplay/avprobe/avserver
219 - ffmpeg deprecated, added avconv, which is almost the same for now, except
220 for a few incompatible changes in the options, which will hopefully make them
221 easier to use. The changes are:
222 * The options placement is now strictly enforced! While in theory the
223 options for ffmpeg should be given in [input options] -i INPUT [output
224 options] OUTPUT order, in practice it was possible to give output options
225 before the -i and it mostly worked. Except when it didn't - the behavior was
226 a bit inconsistent. In avconv, it is not possible to mix input and output
227 options. All non-global options are reset after an input or output filename.
228 * All per-file options are now truly per-file - they apply only to the next
229 input or output file and specifying different values for different files
230 will now work properly (notably -ss and -t options).
231 * All per-stream options are now truly per-stream - it is possible to
232 specify which stream(s) should a given option apply to. See the Stream
233 specifiers section in the avconv manual for details.
234 * In ffmpeg some options (like -newvideo/-newaudio/...) are irregular in the
235 sense that they're specified after the output filename instead of before,
236 like all other options. In avconv this irregularity is removed, all options
237 apply to the next input or output file.
238 * -newvideo/-newaudio/-newsubtitle options were removed. Not only were they
239 irregular and highly confusing, they were also redundant. In avconv the -map
240 option will create new streams in the output file and map input streams to
241 them. E.g. avconv -i INPUT -map 0 OUTPUT will create an output stream for
242 each stream in the first input file.
243 * The -map option now has slightly different and more powerful syntax:
244 + Colons (':') are used to separate file index/stream type/stream index
245 instead of dots. Comma (',') is used to separate the sync stream instead
246 of colon.. This is done for consistency with other options.
247 + It's possible to specify stream type. E.g. -map 0:a:2 creates an
248 output stream from the third input audio stream.
249 + Omitting the stream index now maps all the streams of the given type,
250 not just the first. E.g. -map 0:s creates output streams for all the
251 subtitle streams in the first input file.
252 + Since -map can now match multiple streams, negative mappings were
253 introduced. Negative mappings disable some streams from an already
254 defined map. E.g. '-map 0 -map -0:a:1' means 'create output streams for
255 all the stream in the first input file, except for the second audio
257 * There is a new option -c (or -codec) for choosing the decoder/encoder to
258 use, which allows to precisely specify target stream(s) consistently with
259 other options. E.g. -c:v lib264 sets the codec for all video streams, -c:a:0
260 libvorbis sets the codec for the first audio stream and -c copy copies all
261 the streams without reencoding. Old -vcodec/-acodec/-scodec options are now
263 * It is now possible to precisely specify which stream should an AVOption
264 apply to. E.g. -b:v:0 2M sets the bitrate for the first video stream, while
265 -b:a 128k sets the bitrate for all audio streams. Note that the old -ab 128k
266 syntax is deprecated and will stop working soon.
267 * -map_chapters now takes only an input file index and applies to the next
268 output file. This is consistent with how all the other options work.
269 * -map_metadata now takes only an input metadata specifier and applies to
270 the next output file. Output metadata specifier is now part of the option
271 name, similarly to the AVOptions/map/codec feature above.
272 * -metadata can now be used to set metadata on streams and chapters, e.g.
273 -metadata:s:1 language=eng sets the language of the first stream to 'eng'.
274 This made -vlang/-alang/-slang options redundant, so they were removed.
275 * -qscale option now uses stream specifiers and applies to all streams, not
276 just video. I.e. plain -qscale number would now apply to all streams. To get
277 the old behavior, use -qscale:v. Also there is now a shortcut -q for -qscale
278 and -aq is now an alias for -q:a.
279 * -vbsf/-absf/-sbsf options were removed and replaced by a -bsf option which
280 uses stream specifiers. Use -bsf:v/a/s instead of the old options.
281 * -itsscale option now uses stream specifiers, so its argument is only the
283 * -intra option was removed, use -g 0 for the same effect.
284 * -psnr option was removed, use -flags +psnr for the same effect.
285 * -vf option is now an alias to the new -filter option, which uses stream specifiers.
286 * -vframes/-aframes/-dframes options are now aliases to the new -frames option.
287 * -vtag/-atag/-stag options are now aliases to the new -tag option.
289 - Windows Media Image decoder
293 - libcdio-paranoia input device for audio CD grabbing
295 - Apple ProRes decoder
296 - CELT in Ogg demuxing
297 - VC-1 interlaced decoding
298 - lut, lutrgb, and lutyuv filters
301 - Speex encoding via libspeex
302 - 4:2:2 H.264 decoding support
303 - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 H.264 encoding with libx264
304 - Pulseaudio input device
305 - replacement Indeo 3 decoder
306 - TLS/SSL and HTTPS protocol support
307 - AVOptions API rewritten and documented
308 - most of CODEC_FLAG2_*, some CODEC_FLAG_* and many codec-specific fields in
309 AVCodecContext deprecated. Codec private options should be used instead.
310 - Properly working defaults in libx264 wrapper, support for native presets.
311 - Encrypted OMA files support
312 - Discworld II BMV decoding support
314 - OS X Video Decoder Acceleration (VDA) support
315 - CRI ADX audio format muxer and demuxer
316 - Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
317 - PCM format support in OMA demuxer
319 - Dxtory capture format decoder
320 - v410 QuickTime uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit encoder and decoder
322 - Simple segmenting muxer
329 - E-AC-3 audio encoder
330 - ac3enc: add channel coupling support
331 - floating-point sample format support for (E-)AC-3, DCA, AAC, Vorbis decoders
332 - H.264/MPEG frame-level multithreading
333 - av_metadata_* functions renamed to av_dict_* and moved to libavutil
334 - 4:4:4 H.264 decoding support
335 - 10-bit H.264 optimizations for x86
336 - bump libswscale for recently reported ABI break
341 - VP8 frame-level multithreading
342 - NEON optimizations for VP8
343 - removed a lot of deprecated API cruft
344 - FFT and IMDCT optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
346 - SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
347 - ffmpeg no longer quits after the 'q' key is pressed; use 'ctrl+c' instead
348 - 9bit and 10bit per sample support in the H.264 decoder
353 - WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
354 - low overhead Ogg muxing
356 - VP8 de/encoding via libvpx
357 - Demuxer for On2's IVF format
358 - Pictor/PC Paint decoder
360 - libfaad2 wrapper removed
361 - DTS-ES extension (XCh) decoding support
363 - RTSP tunneling over HTTP
364 - RTP depacketization of SVQ3
365 - -strict inofficial replaced by -strict unofficial
366 - ffplay -exitonkeydown and -exitonmousedown options added
367 - native GSM / GSM MS decoder
368 - RTP depacketization of QDM2
369 - ANSI/ASCII art playback system
370 - Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
371 - SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
372 - Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
373 - ffprobe -show_packets option added
374 - RTP packetization of Theora and Vorbis
375 - RTP depacketization of MP4A-LATM
376 - RTP packetization and depacketization of VP8
378 - Apple HTTP Live Streaming demuxer
381 - G.722 ADPCM audio encoder/decoder
384 - frei0r wrapper filter
385 - change crop filter syntax to width:height:x:y
386 - make the crop filter accept parametric expressions
387 - make ffprobe accept AVFormatContext options
390 - Demuxer for Leitch/Harris' VR native stream format (LXF)
391 - RTP depacketization of the X-QT QuickTime format
392 - SAP (Session Announcement Protocol, RFC 2974) muxer and demuxer
394 - ffmpeg -crop* options removed
395 - transpose filter added
396 - ffmpeg -force_key_frames option added
397 - demuxer for receiving raw rtp:// URLs without an SDP description
398 - single stream LATM/LOAS decoder
399 - setpts filter added
400 - Win64 support for optimized x86 assembly functions
401 - MJPEG/AVI1 to JPEG/JFIF bitstream filter
402 - ASS subtitle encoder and decoder
403 - IEC 61937 encapsulation for E-AC-3, TrueHD, DTS-HD (for HDMI passthrough)
404 - overlay filter added
405 - rename aspect filter to setdar, and pixelaspect to setsar
407 - Mobotix .mxg demuxer
408 - frei0r source added
409 - hqdn3d filter added
410 - RTP depacketization of QCELP
412 - gradfun filter added
414 - replace the ocv_smooth filter with a more generic ocv filter
415 - Windows Televison (WTV) demuxer
416 - FFmpeg metadata format muxer and demuxer
417 - SubRip (srt) subtitle decoder
418 - floating-point AC-3 encoder added
420 - ffmpeg -copytb option added
422 - Wing Commander IV movies decoder added
424 - Bink version 'b' audio and video decoder
425 - Bitmap Brothers JV playback system
426 - Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler
427 - sndio support for playback and record
428 - Linux framebuffer input device added
429 - Chronomaster DFA decoder
430 - Mobotix MxPEG decoder
431 - AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
432 - AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
434 - fieldorder video filter added
439 - PB-frame decoding for H.263
440 - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
441 - deprecated old scaler removed
443 - Alpha channel scaler
445 - RTP packetization of H.263
446 - RTP packetization of AMR
447 - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
448 - CorePNG decoding support
449 - Cook multichannel decoding support
450 - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
451 - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
452 - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
453 - V210 decoder and encoder
454 - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
456 - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
457 - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
459 - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
460 - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
461 - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
462 - experimental AAC encoder
463 - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
464 - RTMP support in libavformat
465 - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
467 - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
469 - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
470 - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
472 - Core Audio Format demuxer
474 - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
475 - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
476 - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
477 - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
479 - CDG demuxer and decoder
481 - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
482 - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
484 - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
485 - RTP depacketization of H.263
486 - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
487 - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
488 - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
491 - RTP depacketization of AMR
497 - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
498 - VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
499 - RTP depacketization of Theora
500 - HTTP Digest authentication
501 - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
502 - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
503 - spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
504 - unsharp video filter
505 - RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
506 - Dirac in Ogg demuxing
507 - seek to keyframes in Ogg
508 - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Theora decoding
509 - 35% faster VP3/Theora decoding
510 - faster AAC decoding
511 - faster H.264 decoding
512 - RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder
517 - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
518 - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
519 - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
520 - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
521 - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
522 - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
523 - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
524 - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
525 - H.261 video encoder
527 - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
528 - Shorten audio decoder
530 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
531 - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
532 - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
533 - Indeo 2 video decoder
534 - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
535 - Snow video encoder/decoder
536 - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
537 - Vorbis audio decoder
538 - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
539 - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
540 - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
541 - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
542 - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
544 - Real Cooker audio decoder
545 - TrueSpeech audio decoder
546 - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
547 - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
549 - build system improvements
550 - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
551 - CamStudio video decoder
552 - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
553 - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
554 - Creative VOC file reading and writing
555 - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
556 - Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
557 - improved Theora/VP3 decoder
558 - True Audio (TTA) decoder
559 - AVS demuxer and video decoder
561 - Smacker demuxer and decoder
562 - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
564 - MPEG-2 intra VLC support
565 - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
566 - Flash Screen Video decoder
568 - Chinese AVS decoder
571 - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
574 - VMware video decoder
577 - WavPack lossless audio decoder
578 - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
579 - Vorbis audio encoder
580 - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
581 - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
583 - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
584 - GIF picture decoder
585 - Intel Music Coder decoder
586 - Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
588 - Flash Screen Video encoder
589 - Theora encoding via libtheora
592 - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
594 - DXA demuxer and decoder
596 - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
597 - Blackfin optimizations
598 - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
599 - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
602 - V.Flash PTX decoder
603 - RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
604 - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
605 - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
606 - sws_flags command line option
610 - OS/2 support removed and restored again
613 - additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
615 - slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
616 - Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
617 - AMV audio and video decoder
619 - H.264 PAFF decoding
620 - Nellymoser ASAO decoder
621 - Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
622 - libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
623 - IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
624 - Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
625 - The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
626 - PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
627 - Sun Rasterfile decoder
628 - TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
629 - Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
630 - AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
631 - QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
633 - iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
635 - MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
636 - RL2 demuxer / decoder
639 - non-recursive Makefiles
641 - MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
645 - Electronic Arts CMV decoder
646 - Motion Pixels Video decoder
647 - Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
648 - removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
649 - D-Cinema audio muxer
650 - Electronic Arts TGV decoder
651 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
653 - floating point PCM encoder/decoder
655 - DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
656 - E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
657 - Nellymoser ASAO encoder
658 - ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
659 - liba52 wrapper removed
660 - SVQ3 watermark decoding support
661 - Speex decoding via libspeex
662 - Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
664 - QCELP / PureVoice decoder
666 - hybrid WavPack support
667 - R3D REDCODE demuxer
668 - ALSA support for playback and record
669 - Electronic Arts TQI decoder
670 - OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
671 - NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
672 - Gopher client support
674 - generic metadata API
679 - DV encoder, DV muxer
680 - Microsoft RLE video decoder
681 - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
682 - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
683 - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
684 - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
686 - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
687 - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
688 - Id Quake II CIN playback support
690 - FLIC playback support
691 - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
692 - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
693 - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
694 - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
698 - rate distortion optimal cbp support
699 - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
700 - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
701 - AAC encoding with libfaac
702 - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
703 - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
704 - Theora/VP3 decoding support
705 - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
706 - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
707 - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
708 - floating point AAN DCT
709 - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
711 - new audio/video parser API
713 - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
714 - missing last frame fixes
715 - seek by mouse in ffplay
716 - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
717 - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
718 - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
720 - H.263 slice structured mode
721 - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
722 - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
723 - MB type & QP visualization
724 - frame stepping for ffplay
725 - interlaced motion estimation
726 - alternate scantable support
727 - SVCD scan offset support
730 - quantizer noise shaping
731 - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
733 - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
734 - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
735 - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
737 - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
738 - H.263+ custom pcf support
739 - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
741 - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
742 - H.264 loop filter support
743 - H.264 CABAC support
744 - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
745 - improved VCD support
746 - audio timestamp drift compensation
747 - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
748 - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
749 - better image scaling
751 - correctly interleave packets during encoding
752 - VIS optimized motion compensation
753 - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
754 - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
755 - more accurate deblock filter
757 - many optimizations and bugfixes
758 - FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
763 - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
764 - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
765 - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
767 - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
768 - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
769 - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
774 - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
775 (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
776 - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
777 - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
778 Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
779 - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
780 - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
781 than HuffYUV) (Michael)
782 - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
783 - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
784 alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
785 - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
786 for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
787 - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
789 - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
790 - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
791 - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
792 - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
793 - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
794 - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
795 - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
796 - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
797 - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
798 - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
799 - qpel encoding (Michael)
800 - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
801 - chroma ME (Michael)
802 - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
803 - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
804 - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
805 - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
806 - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
807 - ASV2 codec (Michael)
808 - CLJR decoder (Alex)
810 .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
815 - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
817 - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
818 - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
819 - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
820 - added prototype ffplay program
821 - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
822 - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
823 - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
824 - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
825 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
826 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
827 - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
828 - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
829 - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
830 - added first regression tests
831 - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
832 - new demux API for libav
833 - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
834 - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
835 - two pass video encoding (Michael)
836 - new video rate control (Michael)
837 - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
838 - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
839 - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
840 - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
841 - added DV video decoder
842 - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
843 - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
844 - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
845 - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
846 - simple stats output (Juanjo)
847 - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
852 - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
853 - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
854 - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
855 - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
856 Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
858 - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
859 - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
860 - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
861 - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
862 pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
863 - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
864 - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
865 - added support for MPlayer interface
866 - added macroblock skip optimization
867 - added MJPEG decoder
868 - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
869 - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
870 <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
871 - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
872 - added deinterlacing option
874 - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
875 - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
876 - Windows porting of file converter
877 - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
878 - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
883 - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
884 <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
885 - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
887 - added prototype RM demuxer
888 - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
889 - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
890 header does not include them)
891 - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
892 play them (only tested video)
893 - fixed H.263 white bug
894 - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
895 - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
896 - added CPU autodetection
897 - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
899 - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
901 - added fractional frame rate support
902 - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
908 - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
909 - fixed raw yuv output
910 - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
911 - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
912 - added B-frame handling in video core
913 - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
914 - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
915 - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
916 +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
917 this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
918 - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
919 - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
920 - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
922 - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
923 <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
924 instead of a protocol)
929 - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
930 (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
931 missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
932 - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
933 can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
934 - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
935 - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
937 - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
938 and image sizes non-multiple of 16
939 - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
940 - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
941 - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
946 - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
947 of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
948 - added -me option to set motion estimation method
949 (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
950 - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
953 - improved dct_quantize speed
954 - factorized some motion estimation code
959 - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
960 multistream support to ffmpeg.
961 - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
963 - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
964 mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
965 - added multi live feed support in ffserver
966 - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
967 external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
969 - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
970 done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
972 - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
973 - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
975 - added WAV format support
976 - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
977 - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
978 (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
979 - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
980 - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
981 - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
987 - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
992 - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
993 real time at low resolution.
994 - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
995 bitrates and large GOP size
998 version 0.3.2: small fixes
1004 version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
1007 - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
1008 - added sound for flash format (not tested)
1011 version 0.3: initial public release