+version <next>
+- DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
+- TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
+- IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
+- Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
+- Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
+- Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
+- Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
+- Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
+- H.261 video encoder
+- QPEG video decoder
+- Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
+- Shorten audio decoder
+- LOCO video decoder
+- Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
+- Winnov WNV1 video decoder
+- Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
+- Indeo 2 video decoder
+- Fraps FPS1 video decoder
+- Snow video encoder/decoder
+- Sonic audio encoder/decoder
+- Vorbis audio encoder/decoder
+- Macromedia ADPCM decoder
+- Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
+- support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
+- H.264 custom quantization matrices support
+- ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
+- QDM2 audio decoder
+- Real Cooker audio decoder
+- TrueSpeech audio decoder
+- WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
+- RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
+- JPEG-LS encoder and decoder
+- CamStudio video decoder
+- build system improvements
+- tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
+- AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
+- ADTS AAC file reading and writing
+- Creative VOC file reading and writing
+- American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
+- Zip Blocks Motion Video decoder
+- Improved Theora/VP3 decoder
+- True Audio (TTA) decoder
+- AVS demuxer and video decoder
+- Smacker demuxer and decoder
+- NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
+- KMVC decoder
+- MPEG-2 intra vlc support
+- MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
+- Flash Screen Video decoder
+- GXF demuxer
+- Chinese AVS decoder
+- GXF muxer
+- MXF demuxer
+- VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
+- MacIntel support
+- AVISynth support
+- VMware video decoder
+- VP5 video decoder
+- VP6 video decoder
+- WavPack lossless audio decoder
+- Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
+- Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
+- Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
+- MTV demuxer
+- TIFF picture decoder
+- GIF picture decoder
+- Intel Music decoder
+
+version 0.4.9-pre1:
+
+- DV encoder, DV muxer
+- Microsoft RLE video decoder
+- Microsoft Video-1 decoder
+- Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
+- Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
+- Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
+- Cinepak decoder
+- Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
+- Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
+- Id Quake II CIN playback support
+- 8BPS video decoder
+- FLIC playback support
+- RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
+- Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
+- Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
+- MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
+- SVQ1 video encoder
+- AMR-WB support
+- PPC optimizations
+- rate distortion optimal cbp support
+- rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
+- rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
+- AAC encoding with libfaac
+- Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
+- use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
+- Theora/VP3 decoding support
+- XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
+- export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
+- Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
+- floating point AAN DCT
+- initial support for zygo video (not complete)
+- RGB ffv1 support
+- new audio/video parser API
+- av_log() system
+- av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
+- missing last frame fixes
+- seek by mouse in ffplay
+- noise reduction of DCT coefficients
+- H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
+- H.263 alternative inter vlc support
+- H.263 loop filter
+- H.263 slice structured mode
+- interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
+- stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
+- MB type & QP visualization
+- frame stepping for ffplay
+- interlaced motion estimation
+- alternate scantable support
+- SVCD scan offset support
+- closed GOP support
+- SSE2 FDCT
+- quantizer noise shaping
+- G.726 ADPCM audio codec
+- MS ADPCM encoding
+- multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
+- multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
+- multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
+- FLAC decoder
+- Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
+- H.263+ custom pcf support
+- nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
+- Matroska demuxer
+- SGI image format, encoding and decoding
+- H.264 loop filter support
+- H.264 CABAC support
+- nicer looking arrows for the motion vector vissualization
+- improved VCD support
+- audio timestamp drift compensation
+- MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
+- polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
+- better image scaling
+- H.261 support
+- correctly interleave packets during encoding
+- VIS optimized motion compensation
+- intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
+- support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
+- more accurate deblock filter
+- padding support
+- many optimizations and bugfixes
+
+version 0.4.8:
+
+- MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
+- Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
+- Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
+ and Mario Brito)
+- Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
+- Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
+- Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
+
+version 0.4.7:
+
+- RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
+ (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
+- current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
+- 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
+ Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
+- Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
+- FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
+ than HuffYUV) (Michael)
+- ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
+- tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
+ alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
+- ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
+ for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
+- Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
+ by anonymous
+- AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
+- 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
+- VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
+- more MPEG-1/2 fixes
+- better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
+- AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
+- SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
+- new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
+- VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
+- better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
+- qpel encoding (Michael)
+- 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
+- chroma ME (Michael)
+- 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
+- B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
+- WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
+- user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
+- Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
+- ASV2 codec (Michael)
+- CLJR decoder (Alex)
+
+.. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
+