Release Notes
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* 0.9 "Harmony"  December, 2011


General notes
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This release is binary compatible with 0.8. The 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has
been extended to also support the command line syntax and features of a tool
called avconv.

Additionally, this release introduces a number of new interesting codecs
such as the Apple Prores, Flash Screen Video 2 and Windows Media Image,
and muxers such as LATM or CELT in Ogg, among many others. Moreover, our
H.264 decoder has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material and our libx264
wrapper now allows to produce 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video.

See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. Note, there
are many more new features and bugfixes than whats listed there.

Bugreports against FFmpeg git master or the most recent FFmpeg release are
accepted. If you are experiencing issues with any formally released version of
FFmpeg, please try git master to check if the issue still exists. If it does,
make your report against the development code following the usual bug reporting
guidelines.


API changes
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A number of additional APIs have been introduced and some existing
functions have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next
release. Please see the file doc/APIchanges for details along with
similar programmer-centric information.



Other notable changes
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Please see the Changelog file for a more detailed list of changes.