+version <next>:
+- 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
+- SVQ1 video encoder
+
+version 0.4.8:
+
+- MPEG2 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 a 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
+ then huffyuv) (Michael)
+- ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs has 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 multi platform 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 Multi platform 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 comparission 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 enhances and fixes.
+
+version 0.4.6:
+
+- completely new integer only mpeg audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
+ from scratch.
+- recoded dct and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on
+ nasm).
+- fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder.
+- added PCM codecs and format. Corrected wav/avi/asf pcm issues.
+- added prototype ffplay program.
+- added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder. (Juanjo)
+- bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263. (Juanjo)
+- bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263. (Juanjo)
+- added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder. (Juanjo)
+- now we can decode H.263 streams found on QuickTime files. (Juanjo)
+- now we can decode H.263 streams found on VIVO v1 files.(Juanjo)
+- preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
+- added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode. (Juanjo)
+- now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame. (Juanjo)
+- added first regression tests
+- added MPEG2 TS demux
+- new demux API for libav
+- more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
+- faster and entropy controlled motion search (Michael)
+- two pass video encoding (Michael)
+- new video rate control (Michael)
+- added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
+- great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
+- new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
+- high quality encoding mode : tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
+- added DV video decoder
+- preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
+- H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support. (Juanjo)
+- VCD MPEG-PS mode. (Juanjo)
+- PSNR stuff. (Juanjo)
+- Simple stats output. (Juanjo)
+- 16-bit and 15-bit rgb/bgr/gbr support (Bisqwit)
+
version 0.4.5:
-- some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>).
-- many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k@mail.ru>).
+- some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>).
+- many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k@mail.ru>).
- added configure system (actually a small shell script).
- added mpeg audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
- fixed opendivx bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding).
- added support for mplayer interface.
- added macroblock skip optimization.
-- added MJPEG decoder (still lacking some jpeg features).
+- added MJPEG decoder.
- added mmx/mmxext idct from libmpeg2.
+- added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
+ <celer@shell.scrypt.net>).
+- added pixel format convertion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM).
+- added deinterlacing option.
+- mpeg1/2 fixes.
+- mpeg4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm@pacbell.net>).
+- ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer@free.fr>).
+- Windows porting of file converter.
+- added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput).
+- added JPEG image format support (input/output).
version 0.4.4:
- fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
- <bjorn.e.lindgren@telia.com>).
+ <bjorn.e.lindgren@telia.com>).
- added mpeg demux (mpeg 1 and 2 compatible).
- added ASF demux.
- added prototype RM demux.
version 0.4.3:
-- BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@amsat.org>).
+- BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@amsat.org>).
- fixed raw yuv output.
- added motion rounding support in MPEG4.
- fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4.
- suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
output.
- added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
- <lists@reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
+ <lists@reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
instead of a protocol).
version 0.4.2:
- added wav format support.
- added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully.
- added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Diferences)
- (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo@atmlab.utfsm.cl>).
+ (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo@atmlab.utfsm.cl>).
- added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo).
- added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo).
- changed directories : libav for format handling, libavcodec for