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-- Support for spherical videos
-- Intel QSV-accelerated VP8 and VC-1 decoding
-- VAAPI-accelerated VP8 and HEVC decoding
-- VAAPI-accelerated deinterlacing
-- config.log and other configuration files moved into avbuild/ directory
-- VAAPI-accelerated MPEG-2 and VP8 encoding
-- Apple Pixlet decoder
-- The x86 assembler default switched from yasm to nasm, pass
- --x86asmexe=yasm to configure to restore the old behavior.
-- Cineform HD decoder
-- VP9 superframe split/merge bitstream filters
-- FM Screen Capture Codec decoder
-- ClearVideo decoder (I-frames only)
-- support for decoding through D3D11VA in avconv
-- Cinepak encoder
+- deblock filter
+- tmix filter
+- amplify filter
+
+
+version 4.0:
+- Bitstream filters for editing metadata in H.264, HEVC and MPEG-2 streams
+- Dropped support for OpenJPEG versions 2.0 and below. Using OpenJPEG now
+ requires 2.1 (or later) and pkg-config.
+- VDA dropped (use VideoToolbox instead)
+- MagicYUV encoder
+- Raw AMR-NB and AMR-WB demuxers
+- TiVo ty/ty+ demuxer
- Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding
-- NVIDIA CUVID-accelerated H.264 and HEVC decoding
+- PCE support for extended channel layouts in the AAC encoder
+- native aptX and aptX HD encoder and decoder
+- Raw aptX and aptX HD muxer and demuxer
+- NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding
- Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter
+- mcompand audio filter
+- acontrast audio filter
+- OpenCL overlay filter
+- video mix filter
+- video normalize filter
+- audio lv2 wrapper filter
+- VAAPI MJPEG and VP8 decoding
+- AMD AMF H.264 and HEVC encoders
+- video fillborders filter
+- video setrange filter
+- nsp demuxer
+- support LibreSSL (via libtls)
+- AVX-512/ZMM support added
+- Dropped support for building for Windows XP. The minimum supported Windows
+ version is Windows Vista.
+- deconvolve video filter
+- entropy video filter
+- hilbert audio filter source
+- aiir audio filter
+- aiff: add support for CD-ROM XA ADPCM
+- Removed the ffserver program
+- Removed the ffmenc and ffmdec muxer and demuxer
+- VideoToolbox HEVC encoder and hwaccel
+- VAAPI-accelerated ProcAmp (color balance), denoise and sharpness filters
+- Add android_camera indev
+- codec2 en/decoding via libcodec2
+- muxer/demuxer for raw codec2 files and .c2 files
+- Moved nvidia codec headers into an external repository.
+ They can be found at http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg/nv-codec-headers.git
+- native SBC encoder and decoder
+- drmeter audio filter
+- hapqa_extract bitstream filter
+- filter_units bitstream filter
- AV1 Support through libaom
+- E-AC-3 dependent frames support
+- bitstream filter for extracting E-AC-3 core
+- Haivision SRT protocol via libsrt
+- segafilm muxer
+- vfrdet filter
+
+
+version 3.4:
+- deflicker video filter
+- doubleweave video filter
+- lumakey video filter
+- pixscope video filter
+- oscilloscope video filter
+- config.log and other configuration files moved into ffbuild/ directory
+- update cuvid/nvenc headers to Video Codec SDK 8.0.14
+- afir audio filter
+- scale_cuda CUDA based video scale filter
+- librsvg support for svg rasterization
+- crossfeed audio filter
+- spec compliant VP9 muxing support in MP4
+- remove the libnut muxer/demuxer wrappers
+- remove the libschroedinger encoder/decoder wrappers
+- surround audio filter
+- sofalizer filter switched to libmysofa
+- Gremlin Digital Video demuxer and decoder
+- headphone audio filter
+- superequalizer audio filter
+- roberts video filter
+- The x86 assembler default switched from yasm to nasm, pass
+ --x86asmexe=yasm to configure to restore the old behavior.
+- additional frame format support for Interplay MVE movies
+- support for decoding through D3D11VA in ffmpeg
+- limiter video filter
+- libvmaf video filter
+- Dolby E decoder and SMPTE 337M demuxer
+- unpremultiply video filter
+- tlut2 video filter
+- floodfill video filter
+- pseudocolor video filter
+- raw G.726 muxer and demuxer, left- and right-justified
+- NewTek NDI input/output device
+- Some video filters with several inputs now use a common set of options:
+ blend, libvmaf, lut3d, overlay, psnr, ssim.
+ They must always be used by name.
+- FITS demuxer and decoder
+- FITS muxer and encoder
+- add --disable-autodetect build switch
+- drop deprecated qtkit input device (use avfoundation instead)
+- despill video filter
+- haas audio filter
+- SUP/PGS subtitle muxer
+- convolve video filter
+- VP9 tile threading support
+- KMS screen grabber
+- CUDA thumbnail filter
+- V4L2 mem2mem HW assisted codecs
+- Rockchip MPP hardware decoding
+- vmafmotion video filter
+- use MIME type "G726" for little-endian G.726, "AAL2-G726" for big-endian G.726
+
+
+version 3.3:
+- CrystalHD decoder moved to new decode API
+- add internal ebur128 library, remove external libebur128 dependency
+- Pro-MPEG CoP #3-R2 FEC protocol
+- premultiply video filter
+- Support for spherical videos
+- configure now fails if autodetect-libraries are requested but not found
+- PSD Decoder
+- 16.8 floating point pcm decoder
+- 24.0 floating point pcm decoder
+- Apple Pixlet decoder
+- QDMC audio decoder
+- NewTek SpeedHQ decoder
+- MIDI Sample Dump Standard demuxer
+- readeia608 filter
+- Sample Dump eXchange demuxer
+- abitscope multimedia filter
+- Scenarist Closed Captions demuxer and muxer
+- threshold filter
+- midequalizer filter
+- Optimal Huffman tables for (M)JPEG encoding
+- VAAPI-accelerated MPEG-2 and VP8 encoding
+- FM Screen Capture Codec decoder
+- native Opus encoder
+- ScreenPressor decoder
+- incomplete ClearVideo decoder
+- Intel QSV video scaling and deinterlacing filters
+- Support MOV with multiple sample description tables
+- XPM decoder
+- Removed the legacy X11 screen grabber, use XCB instead
+- MPEG-7 Video Signature filter
+- Removed asyncts filter (use af_aresample instead)
+- Intel QSV-accelerated VP8 video decoding
+- VAAPI-accelerated deinterlacing
-version 12:
-- aliases and defaults for Ogg subtypes (opus, spx)
-- HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) packetizer and depacketizer
-- avplay now exits by default at the end of playback
-- XCB-based screen-grabber
-- creating DASH compatible fragmented MP4, MPEG-DASH segmenting muxer
-- H.261 RTP payload format (RFC 4587) depacketizer and experimental packetizer
+version 3.2:
+- libopenmpt demuxer
+- tee protocol
+- Changed metadata print option to accept general urls
+- Alias muxer for Ogg Video (.ogv)
+- VP8 in Ogg muxing
+- curves filter doesn't automatically insert points at x=0 and x=1 anymore
+- 16-bit support in curves filter and selectivecolor filter
+- OpenH264 decoder wrapper
+- MediaCodec H.264/HEVC/MPEG-4/VP8/VP9 hwaccel
+- True Audio (TTA) muxer
+- crystalizer audio filter
+- acrusher audio filter
+- bitplanenoise video filter
+- floating point support in als decoder
+- fifo muxer
+- maskedclamp filter
+- hysteresis filter
+- lut2 filter
+- yuvtestsrc filter
+- CUDA CUVID H.263/VP8/VP9/10 bit HEVC (Dithered) Decoding
+- vaguedenoiser filter
+- added threads option per filter instance
+- weave filter
+- gblur filter
+- avgblur filter
+- sobel and prewitt filter
+- MediaCodec HEVC/MPEG-4/VP8/VP9 decoding
+- Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) / TrueHD encoder
+- Non-Local Means (nlmeans) denoising filter
+- sdl2 output device and ffplay support
+- sdl1 output device and sdl1 support removed
+- extended mov edit list support
+- libfaac encoder removed
+- Matroska muxer now writes CRC32 elements by default in all Level 1 elements
+- sidedata video and asidedata audio filter
+- Changed mapping of rtp MIME type G726 to codec g726le.
+- spec compliant VAAPI/DXVA2 VC-1 decoding of slices in frame-coded images
+
+
+version 3.1:
+- DXVA2-accelerated HEVC Main10 decoding
+- fieldhint filter
+- loop video filter and aloop audio filter
+- Bob Weaver deinterlacing filter
+- firequalizer filter
+- datascope filter
+- bench and abench filters
+- ciescope filter
+- protocol blacklisting API
+- MediaCodec H264 decoding
+- VC-2 HQ RTP payload format (draft v1) depacketizer and packetizer
+- VP9 RTP payload format (draft v2) packetizer
+- AudioToolbox audio decoders
+- AudioToolbox audio encoders
+- coreimage filter (GPU based image filtering on OSX)
+- libdcadec removed
+- bitstream filter for extracting DTS core
+- ADPCM IMA DAT4 decoder
+- musx demuxer
+- aix demuxer
+- remap filter
+- hash and framehash muxers
+- colorspace filter
+- hdcd filter
+- readvitc filter
+- VAAPI-accelerated format conversion and scaling
+- libnpp/CUDA-accelerated format conversion and scaling
+- Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time decoder
+- Wideband Single-bit Data (WSD) demuxer
+- VAAPI-accelerated H.264/HEVC/MJPEG encoding
+- DTS Express (LBR) decoder
+- Generic OpenMAX IL encoder with support for Raspberry Pi
+- IFF ANIM demuxer & decoder
+- Direct Stream Transfer (DST) decoder
+- loudnorm filter
+- MTAF demuxer and decoder
+- MagicYUV decoder
+- OpenExr improvements (tile data and B44/B44A support)
+- BitJazz SheerVideo decoder
+- CUDA CUVID H264/HEVC decoder
+- 10-bit depth support in native utvideo decoder
+- libutvideo wrapper removed
+- YUY2 Lossless Codec decoder
+- VideoToolbox H.264 encoder
+
+
+version 3.0:
+- Common Encryption (CENC) MP4 encoding and decoding support
+- DXV decoding
+- extrastereo filter
+- ocr filter
+- alimiter filter
+- stereowiden filter
+- stereotools filter
+- rubberband filter
+- tremolo filter
+- agate filter
+- chromakey filter
+- maskedmerge filter
+- Screenpresso SPV1 decoding
+- chromaprint fingerprinting muxer
+- ffplay dynamic volume control
+- displace filter
+- selectivecolor filter
+- extensive native AAC encoder improvements and removal of experimental flag
+- ADPCM PSX decoder
+- 3dostr, dcstr, fsb, genh, vag, xvag, ads, msf, svag & vpk demuxer
+- zscale filter
+- wve demuxer
+- zero-copy Intel QSV transcoding in ffmpeg
+- shuffleframes filter
+- SDX2 DPCM decoder
+- vibrato filter
+- innoHeim/Rsupport Screen Capture Codec decoder
+- ADPCM AICA decoder
+- Interplay ACM demuxer and audio decoder
+- XMA1 & XMA2 decoder
+- realtime filter
+- anoisesrc audio filter source
+- IVR demuxer
+- compensationdelay filter
+- acompressor filter
+- support encoding 16-bit RLE SGI images
+- apulsator filter
+- sidechaingate audio filter
+- mipsdspr1 option has been renamed to mipsdsp
+- aemphasis filter
+- mips32r5 option has been removed
+- mips64r6 option has been removed
+- DXVA2-accelerated VP9 decoding
+- SOFAlizer: virtual binaural acoustics filter
+- VAAPI VP9 hwaccel
+- audio high-order multiband parametric equalizer
+- automatic bitstream filtering
+- showspectrumpic filter
+- libstagefright support removed
+- spectrumsynth filter
+- ahistogram filter
+- only seek with the right mouse button in ffplay
+- toggle full screen when double-clicking with the left mouse button in ffplay
+- afftfilt filter
+- convolution filter
+- libquvi support removed
+- support for dvaudio in wav and avi
+- libaacplus and libvo-aacenc support removed
+- Cineform HD decoder
+- new DCA decoder with full support for DTS-HD extensions
+- significant performance improvements in Windows Television (WTV) demuxer
+- nnedi deinterlacer
+- streamselect video and astreamselect audio filter
+- swaprect filter
+- metadata video and ametadata audio filter
+- SMPTE VC-2 HQ profile support for the Dirac decoder
+- SMPTE VC-2 native encoder supporting the HQ profile
+
+
+version 2.8:
+- colorkey video filter
+- BFSTM/BCSTM demuxer
+- little-endian ADPCM_THP decoder
+- Hap decoder and encoder
+- DirectDraw Surface image/texture decoder
+- ssim filter
+- optional new ASF demuxer
+- showvolume filter
+- Many improvements to the JPEG 2000 decoder
+- Go2Meeting decoding support
+- adrawgraph audio and drawgraph video filter
+- removegrain video filter
+- Intel QSV-accelerated MPEG-2 video and HEVC encoding
+- Intel QSV-accelerated MPEG-2 video and HEVC decoding
+- Intel QSV-accelerated VC-1 video decoding
+- libkvazaar HEVC encoder
+- erosion, dilation, deflate and inflate video filters
+- Dynamic Audio Normalizer as dynaudnorm filter
+- Reverse video and areverse audio filter
+- Random filter
+- deband filter
+- AAC fixed-point decoding
+- sidechaincompress audio filter
+- bitstream filter for converting HEVC from MP4 to Annex B
+- acrossfade audio filter
+- allyuv and allrgb video sources
+- atadenoise video filter
+- OS X VideoToolbox support
+- aphasemeter filter
+- showfreqs filter
+- vectorscope filter
+- waveform filter
+- hstack and vstack filter
+- Support DNx100 (1440x1080@8)
+- VAAPI hevc hwaccel
+- VDPAU hevc hwaccel
+- framerate filter
+- Switched default encoders for webm to VP9 and Opus
+- Removed experimental flag from the JPEG 2000 encoder
+
+
+version 2.7:
+- FFT video filter
+- TDSC decoder
+- DTS lossless extension (XLL) decoding (not lossless, disabled by default)
+- showwavespic filter
+- DTS decoding through libdcadec
+- Drop support for nvenc API before 5.0
+- nvenc HEVC encoder
+- Detelecine filter
+- Intel QSV-accelerated H.264 encoding
+- MMAL-accelerated H.264 decoding
+- basic APNG encoder and muxer with default extension "apng"
+- unpack DivX-style packed B-frames in MPEG-4 bitstream filter
+- WebM Live Chunk Muxer
+- nvenc level and tier options
+- chorus filter
+- Canopus HQ/HQA decoder
+- Automatically rotate videos based on metadata in ffmpeg
+- improved Quickdraw compatibility
+- VP9 high bit-depth and extended colorspaces decoding support
+- WebPAnimEncoder API when available for encoding and muxing WebP
+- Direct3D11-accelerated decoding
+- Support Secure Transport
+- Multipart JPEG demuxer
+
+
+version 2.6:
+- nvenc encoder
+- 10bit spp filter
+- colorlevels filter
+- RIFX format for *.wav files
- RTP/mpegts muxer
-- VP8 in Ogg demuxing
+- non continuous cache protocol support
+- tblend filter
+- cropdetect support for non 8bpp, absolute (if limit >= 1) and relative (if limit < 1.0) threshold
+- Camellia symmetric block cipher
- OpenH264 encoder wrapper
+- VOC seeking support
+- Closed caption Decoder
+- fspp, uspp, pp7 MPlayer postprocessing filters ported to native filters
+- showpalette filter
+- Twofish symmetric block cipher
- Support DNx100 (960x720@8)
-- Direct3D11-accelerated decoding
+- eq2 filter ported from libmpcodecs as eq filter
+- removed libmpcodecs
+- Changed default DNxHD colour range in QuickTime .mov derivatives to mpeg range
+- ported softpulldown filter from libmpcodecs as repeatfields filter
+- dcshift filter
+- RTP depacketizer for loss tolerant payload format for MP3 audio (RFC 5219)
+- RTP depacketizer for AC3 payload format (RFC 4184)
+- palettegen and paletteuse filters
+- VP9 RTP payload format (draft 0) experimental depacketizer
+- RTP depacketizer for DV (RFC 6469)
- DXVA2-accelerated HEVC decoding
- AAC ELD 480 decoding
- Intel QSV-accelerated H.264 decoding
- DSS SP decoder and DSS demuxer
-- RTP depacketizer for AC3 payload format (RFC 4184)
-- RTP depacketizer for loss tolerant payload format for MP3 audio (RFC 5219)
-- RTP depacketizer for DV (RFC 6469)
+- Fix stsd atom corruption in DNxHD QuickTimes
- Canopus HQX decoder
- RTP depacketization of T.140 text (RFC 4103)
-- VP9 RTP payload format (draft 0) experimental depacketizer
-- TDSC decoder
-- DTS lossless extension (XLL) decoding (not lossless, disabled by default)
-- Intel QSV-accelerated H.264 encoding
-- MMAL-accelerated H.264 decoding
-- DTS decoding through libdcadec
-- Canopus HQ/HQA decoder
-- Automatically rotate videos based on metadata in avconv
-- improved Quickdraw compatibility
-- NVIDIA NVENC-accelerated H.264 and HEVC encoding support
-- Multipart JPEG demuxer
-- Support the extended vp9 profiles in the libvpx wrapper
-- Hap decoder and encoder
-- DirectDraw Surface image/texture decoder
-- rewritten ASF demuxer
-- Go2Meeting decoding support
-- Intel QSV-accelerated MPEG-2 video and HEVC encoding
-- bitstream filter for converting HEVC from MP4 to Annex B
-- Intel QSV-accelerated MPEG-2 video and HEVC decoding
-- Support DNx100 (1440x1080@8)
-- DXV decoding
-- Screenpresso SPV1 decoding
-- zero-copy Intel QSV transcoding in avconv
-- libkvazaar HEVC encoder
-- innoHeim/Rsupport Screen Capture Codec decoder
-- support encoding 16-bit RLE SGI images
-- support Apple AVFoundation video capture
-- G.723.1 muxer and encoder
-- compressed SWF
-- VAAPI-accelerated format conversion and scaling
-- libnpp/CUDA-accelerated format conversion and scaling
-- VAAPI-accelerate H.264/HEVC/MJPEG encoding
-- Generic OpenMAX IL encoder with support for Raspberry Pi
-- MMAL-accelerated MPEG-2 and VC-1 decoding
-- G.729 raw demuxer
-- MagicYUV decoder
-- Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time decoder
-- Intel QSV video scaling and deinterlacing filter
-- Support MOV with multiple sample description tables
-- OpenH264 decoder wrapper
-- Removed the legacy X11 screen grabber, use XCB instead
-- HDCD decoding filter through libhdcd
+- Port MIPS optimizations to 64-bit
-version 11:
-- libx265 encoder
+version 2.5:
+- HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) packetizer
+- SUP/PGS subtitle demuxer
+- ffprobe -show_pixel_formats option
+- CAST128 symmetric block cipher, ECB mode
+- STL subtitle demuxer and decoder
+- libutvideo YUV 4:2:2 10bit support
+- XCB-based screen-grabber
+- UDP-Lite support (RFC 3828)
+- xBR scaling filter
+- AVFoundation screen capturing support
+- ffserver supports codec private options
+- creating DASH compatible fragmented MP4, MPEG-DASH segmenting muxer
+- WebP muxer with animated WebP support
+- zygoaudio decoding support
+- APNG demuxer
+- postproc visualization support
+
+
+version 2.4:
+- Icecast protocol
+- ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter
+- large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable
+- ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol
+- support for using metadata in stream specifiers in fftools
+- LZMA compression support in TIFF decoder
+- H.261 RTP payload format (RFC 4587) depacketizer and experimental packetizer
+- HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) depacketizer
+- added codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs
+- Matroska 3D support thorugh side data
+- HTML generation using texi2html is deprecated in favor of makeinfo/texi2any
+- silenceremove filter
+
+
+version 2.3:
+- AC3 fixed-point decoding
- shuffleplanes filter
+- subfile protocol
+- Phantom Cine demuxer
- replaygain data export
+- VP7 video decoder
- Alias PIX image encoder and decoder
-- BRender PIX image decoder
-- Amazing Studio PAF playback support
-- XBM decoder
-- BMP standalone parser
-- OpenEXR image decoder
-- support encoding and decoding 4-channel SGI images
+- Improvements to the BRender PIX image decoder
+- Improvements to the XBM decoder
+- QTKit input device
+- improvements to OpenEXR image decoder
- support decoding 16-bit RLE SGI images
-- VP7 video decoder
-- LucasArts SMUSH SANM video decoder
-- LucasArts SMUSH VIMA audio decoder (ADPCM)
-- LucasArts SMUSH demuxer
-- MP2 encoding via TwoLAME
-- asettb filter
-- Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video decoder
-- Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 1 & 2 decoder
-- Silicon Graphics Movie demuxer
+- GDI screen grabbing for Windows
+- alternative rendition support for HTTP Live Streaming
+- AVFoundation input device
+- Direct Stream Digital (DSD) decoder
+- Magic Lantern Video (MLV) demuxer
- On2 AVC (Audio for Video) decoder
-- support for decoding through DXVA2 in avconv
+- support for decoding through DXVA2 in ffmpeg
- libbs2b-based stereo-to-binaural audio filter
+- libx264 reference frames count limiting depending on level
- native Opus decoder
- display matrix export and rotation API
-- drop avserver, it was unmaintained for years and largely broken
-- Icecast protocol
-- request Icecast metadata by default
-- support for using metadata in stream specifiers in avtools
-- Matroska 3D support
+- WebVTT encoder
+- showcqt multimedia filter
+- zoompan filter
+- signalstats filter
+- hqx filter (hq2x, hq3x, hq4x)
+- flanger filter
+- Image format auto-detection
+- LRC demuxer and muxer
+- Samba protocol (via libsmbclient)
+- WebM DASH Manifest muxer
+- libfribidi support in drawtext
-version 10:
-- av_strnstr
-- support ID3v2 tags in ASF files
+version 2.2:
+
+- HNM version 4 demuxer and video decoder
+- Live HDS muxer
+- setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions
+- elbg filter
+- string validation in ffprobe
+- support for decoding through VDPAU in ffmpeg (the -hwaccel option)
+- complete Voxware MetaSound decoder
+- remove mp3_header_compress bitstream filter
+- Windows resource files for shared libraries
+- aeval filter
+- stereoscopic 3d metadata handling
+- WebP encoding via libwebp
+- ATRAC3+ decoder
+- VP8 in Ogg demuxing
+- side & metadata support in NUT
+- framepack filter
+- XYZ12 rawvideo support in NUT
+- Exif metadata support in WebP decoder
+- OpenGL device
+- Use metadata_header_padding to control padding in ID3 tags (currently used in
+ MP3, AIFF, and OMA files), FLAC header, and the AVI "junk" block.
+- Mirillis FIC video decoder
+- Support DNx444
+- libx265 encoder
+- dejudder filter
+- Autodetect VDA like all other hardware accelerations
+- aliases and defaults for Ogg subtypes (opus, spx)
+
+
+version 2.1:
+
+- aecho filter
+- perspective filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- ffprobe -show_programs option
+- compand filter
+- RTMP seek support
+- when transcoding with ffmpeg (i.e. not streamcopying), -ss is now accurate
+ even when used as an input option. Previous behavior can be restored with
+ the -noaccurate_seek option.
+- ffmpeg -t option can now be used for inputs, to limit the duration of
+ data read from an input file
+- incomplete Voxware MetaSound decoder
+- read EXIF metadata from JPEG
+- DVB teletext decoder
+- phase filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- w3fdif filter
+- Opus support in Matroska
+- FFV1 version 1.3 is stable and no longer experimental
+- FFV1: YUVA(444,422,420) 9, 10 and 16 bit support
+- changed DTS stream id in lavf mpeg ps muxer from 0x8a to 0x88, to be
+ more consistent with other muxers.
+- adelay filter
+- pullup filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- ffprobe -read_intervals option
+- Lossless and alpha support for WebP decoder
+- Error Resilient AAC syntax (ER AAC LC) decoding
+- Low Delay AAC (ER AAC LD) decoding
+- mux chapters in ASF files
+- SFTP protocol (via libssh)
+- libx264: add ability to encode in YUVJ422P and YUVJ444P
+- Fraps: use BT.709 colorspace by default for yuv, as reference fraps decoder does
+- make decoding alpha optional for prores, ffv1 and vp6 by setting
+ the skip_alpha flag.
+- ladspa wrapper filter
+- native VP9 decoder
+- dpx parser
+- max_error_rate parameter in ffmpeg
+- PulseAudio output device
+- ReplayGain scanner
+- Enhanced Low Delay AAC (ER AAC ELD) decoding (no LD SBR support)
+- Linux framebuffer output device
+- HEVC decoder
+- raw HEVC, HEVC in MOV/MP4, HEVC in Matroska, HEVC in MPEG-TS demuxing
+- mergeplanes filter
+
+
+version 2.0:
+
+- curves filter
- reference-counting for AVFrame and AVPacket data
-- avconv now fails when input options are used for output file
+- ffmpeg now fails when input options are used for output file
or vice versa
-- avconv options -filter_script and -filter_complex_script, which allow a
+- support for Monkey's Audio versions from 3.93
+- perms and aperms filters
+- audio filtering support in ffplay
+- 10% faster aac encoding on x86 and MIPS
+- sine audio filter source
+- WebP demuxing and decoding support
+- ffmpeg options -filter_script and -filter_complex_script, which allow a
filtergraph description to be read from a file
+- OpenCL support
+- audio phaser filter
+- separatefields filter
+- libquvi demuxer
- uniform options syntax across all filters
+- telecine filter
- interlace filter
-- JPEG 2000 decoder
-- asetpts filter (same as setpts, but for audio)
+- smptehdbars source
+- inverse telecine filters (fieldmatch and decimate)
+- colorbalance filter
+- colorchannelmixer filter
+- The matroska demuxer can now output proper verbatim ASS packets. It will
+ become the default at the next libavformat major bump.
+- decent native animated GIF encoding
+- asetrate filter
+- interleave filter
+- timeline editing with filters
+- vidstabdetect and vidstabtransform filters for video stabilization using
+ the vid.stab library
+- astats filter
- trim and atrim filters
-- avconv -t and -ss (output-only) options are now sample-accurate when
+- ffmpeg -t and -ss (output-only) options are now sample-accurate when
transcoding audio
- Matroska muxer can now put the index at the beginning of the file.
-- avconv -deinterlace option removed, the yadif filter should be used instead
+- extractplanes filter
+- avectorscope filter
+- ADPCM DTK decoder
+- ADP demuxer
+- RSD demuxer
+- RedSpark demuxer
+- ADPCM IMA Radical decoder
+- zmq filters
+- DCT denoiser filter (dctdnoiz)
+- Wavelet denoiser filter ported from libmpcodecs as owdenoise (formerly "ow")
- Apple Intermediate Codec decoder
- Escape 130 video decoder
+- FTP protocol support
+- V4L2 output device
+- 3D LUT filter (lut3d)
+- SMPTE 302M audio encoder
- support for slice multithreading in libavfilter
+- Hald CLUT support (generation and filtering)
- VC-1 interlaced B-frame support
- support for WavPack muxing (raw and in Matroska)
+- XVideo output device
+- vignette filter
+- True Audio (TTA) encoder
- Go2Webinar decoder
+- mcdeint filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- sab filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- ffprobe -show_chapters option
- WavPack encoding through libwavpack
-- Added the -n parameter to avconv
-- RTMP seek support
-- when transcoding with avconv (i.e. not streamcopying), -ss is now accurate
- even when used as an input option. Previous behavior can be restored with
- the -noaccurate_seek option.
-- avconv -t option can now be used for inputs, to limit the duration of
- data read from an input file
-- Voxware MetaSound decoder
-- WebP decoder
-- Error Resilient AAC syntax (ER AAC LC) decoding
-- Low Delay AAC (ER AAC LD) decoding
-- mux chapters in ASF files
-- Opus in Ogg demuxing
-- Enhanced Low Delay AAC (ER AAC ELD) decoding (no LD SBR support)
-- F4V muxer
-- HNM version 4 demuxer and video decoder
-- HEVC decoder
-- raw HEVC, HEVC in MOV/MP4, HEVC in Matroska, HEVC in MPEG-TS demuxing
-- remove avplay -vismv option, which has not worked for a long time
-- Live HDS muxer
-- setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions
-- dar variable in the scale filter now returns the actual DAR (i.e. a * sar)
-- VP9 decoder
-- support for decoding through VDPAU in avconv (the -hwaccel option)
-- remove mp3_header_(de)compress bitstream filters
-- stereoscopic 3d metadata handling
-- png standalone parser
-- WebP encoding via libwebp
-- ATRAC3+ decoder
-- framepack filter
-- Mirillis FIC video decoder
-- Support DNx444
-- compand audio filter
+- rotate filter
+- spp filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- libgme support
+- psnr filter
-version 9:
-- av_basename and av_dirname
-- adobe and limelight publisher authentication in RTMP
+version 1.2:
+
- VDPAU hardware acceleration through normal hwaccel
- SRTP support
-
-
-version 9_beta3:
-- ashowinfo audio filter
+- Error diffusion dither in Swscale
+- Chained Ogg support
+- Theora Midstream reconfiguration support
+- EVRC decoder
+- audio fade filter
+- filtering audio with unknown channel layout
+- allpass, bass, bandpass, bandreject, biquad, equalizer, highpass, lowpass
+ and treble audio filter
+- improved showspectrum filter, with multichannel support and sox-like colors
+- histogram filter
+- tee muxer
+- il filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- support ID3v2 tags in ASF files
+- encrypted TTA stream decoding support
+- RF64 support in WAV muxer
+- noise filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- Subtitles character encoding conversion
+- blend filter
+- stereo3d filter ported from libmpcodecs
+
+
+version 1.1:
+
+- stream disposition information printing in ffprobe
+- filter for loudness analysis following EBU R128
+- Opus encoder using libopus
+- ffprobe -select_streams option
+- Pinnacle TARGA CineWave YUV16 decoder
+- TAK demuxer, decoder and parser
+- DTS-HD demuxer
+- remove -same_quant, it hasn't worked for years
+- FFM2 support
+- X-Face image encoder and decoder
- 24-bit FLAC encoding
-- audio volume filter
-- deprecated the avconv -vol option. the volume filter is to be used instead.
- multi-channel ALAC encoding up to 7.1
-- TAK demuxer, parser, and decoder
-- adaptive frame-level multithreading for H.264
-
-
-version 9_beta2:
- metadata (INFO tag) support in WAV muxer
+- subtitles raw text decoder
- support for building DLLs using MSVC
-- remove avserver daemon mode
+- LVF demuxer
+- ffescape tool
+- metadata (info chunk) support in CAF muxer
+- field filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- AVR demuxer
+- geq filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- remove ffserver daemon mode
+- AST muxer/demuxer
+- new expansion syntax for drawtext
+- BRender PIX image decoder
+- ffprobe -show_entries option
+- ffprobe -sections option
+- ADPCM IMA Dialogic decoder
+- BRSTM demuxer
+- animated GIF decoder and demuxer
+- PVF demuxer
+- subtitles filter
+- IRCAM muxer/demuxer
+- Paris Audio File demuxer
+- Virtual concatenation demuxer
+- VobSub demuxer
+- JSON captions for TED talks decoding support
+- SOX Resampler support in libswresample
+- aselect filter
+- SGI RLE 8-bit / Silicon Graphics RLE 8-bit video decoder
+- Silicon Graphics Motion Video Compressor 1 & 2 decoder
+- Silicon Graphics Movie demuxer
+- apad filter
+- Resolution & pixel format change support with multithreading for H.264
+- documentation split into per-component manuals
+- pp (postproc) filter ported from MPlayer
+- NIST Sphere demuxer
+- MPL2, VPlayer, MPlayer, AQTitle, PJS and SubViewer v1 subtitles demuxers and decoders
+- Sony Wave64 muxer
+- adobe and limelight publisher authentication in RTMP
+- data: URI scheme
- support building on the Plan 9 operating system
-- ffv1: support version 1.3
+- kerndeint filter ported from MPlayer
+- histeq filter ported from VirtualDub
+- Megalux Frame demuxer
+- 012v decoder
+- Improved AVC Intra decoding support
-version 9_beta1:
+version 1.0:
-- XWD encoder and decoder
-- Support for fragmentation in the mov/mp4 muxer
-- ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxer
-- CDXL demuxer and decoder
-- Apple ProRes encoder
-- Sun Rasterfile Encoder
-- remove libpostproc
-- ID3v2 attached pictures reading and writing
-- WMA Lossless decoder
-- XBM encoder
-- RealAudio Lossless decoder
-- ZeroCodec decoder
-- drop support for avconv without libavfilter
-- add libavresample audio conversion library
-- audio filters support in libavfilter and avconv
-- add fps filter
-- audio split filter
-- audio mix filter
-- avprobe output is now standard INI or JSON. The old format can still
- be used with -of old.
+- INI and flat output in ffprobe
+- Scene detection in libavfilter
- Indeo Audio decoder
- channelsplit audio filter
+- setnsamples audio filter
+- atempo filter
+- ffprobe -show_data option
- RTMPT protocol support
- iLBC encoding/decoding via libilbc
- Microsoft Screen 1 decoder
- Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen decoder
- RTMPS protocol support
- RTMPTS protocol support
-- JPEG 2000 encoding support through OpenJPEG
-- G.723.1 demuxer and decoder
- RTMPE protocol support
- RTMPTE protocol support
+- showwaves and showspectrum filter
+- LucasArts SMUSH SANM playback support
+- LucasArts SMUSH VIMA audio decoder (ADPCM)
+- LucasArts SMUSH demuxer
+- SAMI, RealText and SubViewer demuxers and decoders
+- Heart Of Darkness PAF playback support
+- iec61883 device
+- asettb filter
+- new option: -progress
+- 3GPP Timed Text encoder/decoder
+- GeoTIFF decoder support
+- ffmpeg -(no)stdin option
+- Opus decoder using libopus
+- caca output device using libcaca
+- alphaextract and alphamerge filters
+- concat filter
+- flite filter
- Canopus Lossless Codec decoder
-- avconv -shortest option is now per-output file,
+- bitmap subtitles in filters (experimental and temporary)
+- MP2 encoding via TwoLAME
+- bmp parser
+- smptebars source
+- asetpts filter
+- hue filter
+- ICO muxer
+- SubRip encoder and decoder without embedded timing
+- edge detection filter
+- framestep filter
+- ffmpeg -shortest option is now per-output file
-pass and -passlogfile are now per-output stream
+- volume measurement filter
- Ut Video encoder
- Microsoft Screen 2 decoder
+- smartblur filter ported from MPlayer
+- CPiA decoder
+- decimate filter ported from MPlayer
- RTP depacketization of JPEG
- Smooth Streaming live segmenter muxer
+- F4V muxer
+- sendcmd and asendcmd filters
+- WebVTT demuxer and decoder (simple tags supported)
- RTP packetization of JPEG
-- Opus decoder and encoder using libopus
-- remove -same_quant, it hasn't worked for years
+- faststart option in the MOV/MP4 muxer
- support for building with MSVC
-version 0.8:
+version 0.11:
-- GSM audio parser
-- SMJPEG muxer
+- Fixes: CVE-2012-2772, CVE-2012-2774, CVE-2012-2775, CVE-2012-2776, CVE-2012-2777,
+ CVE-2012-2779, CVE-2012-2782, CVE-2012-2783, CVE-2012-2784, CVE-2012-2785,
+ CVE-2012-2786, CVE-2012-2787, CVE-2012-2788, CVE-2012-2789, CVE-2012-2790,
+ CVE-2012-2791, CVE-2012-2792, CVE-2012-2793, CVE-2012-2794, CVE-2012-2795,
+ CVE-2012-2796, CVE-2012-2797, CVE-2012-2798, CVE-2012-2799, CVE-2012-2800,
+ CVE-2012-2801, CVE-2012-2802, CVE-2012-2803, CVE-2012-2804,
+- v408 Quicktime and Microsoft AYUV Uncompressed 4:4:4:4 encoder and decoder
+- setfield filter
+- CDXL demuxer and decoder
+- Apple ProRes encoder
+- ffprobe -count_packets and -count_frames options
+- Sun Rasterfile Encoder
+- ID3v2 attached pictures reading and writing
+- WMA Lossless decoder
+- bluray protocol
+- blackdetect filter
+- libutvideo encoder wrapper (--enable-libutvideo)
+- swapuv filter
+- bbox filter
+- XBM encoder and decoder
+- RealAudio Lossless decoder
+- ZeroCodec decoder
+- tile video filter
+- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes demuxer
+- OpenEXR image decoder
+- removelogo filter
+- drop support for ffmpeg without libavfilter
+- drawtext video filter: fontconfig support
+- ffmpeg -benchmark_all option
+- super2xsai filter ported from libmpcodecs
+- add libavresample audio conversion library for compatibility
+- MicroDVD decoder
+- Avid Meridien (AVUI) encoder and decoder
+- accept + prefix to -pix_fmt option to disable automatic conversions.
+- complete audio filtering in libavfilter and ffmpeg
+- add fps filter
+- vorbis parser
+- png parser
+- audio mix filter
+- ffv1: support (draft) version 1.3
-version 0.8_beta2:
+version 0.10:
+- Fixes: CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3934, CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3936,
+ CVE-2011-3937, CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3941, CVE-2011-3944,
+ CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2011-3947, CVE-2011-3949,
+ CVE-2011-3950, CVE-2011-3951, CVE-2011-3952
+- v410 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit encoder and decoder
+- SBaGen (SBG) binaural beats script demuxer
+- OpenMG Audio muxer
+- Timecode extraction in DV and MOV
+- thumbnail video filter
+- XML output in ffprobe
+- asplit audio filter
+- tinterlace video filter
+- astreamsync audio filter
+- amerge audio filter
+- ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxer
+- GSM audio parser
+- SMJPEG muxer
+- XWD encoder and decoder
- Automatic thread count based on detection number of (available) CPU cores
-- Deprecate libpostproc. If desired, the switch --enable-postproc will
- enable it but it may be removed in a later Libav release.
+- y41p Brooktree Uncompressed 4:1:1 12-bit encoder and decoder
+- ffprobe -show_error option
+- Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer codec
+- v308 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 encoder and decoder
+- yuv4 libquicktime packed 4:2:0 encoder and decoder
+- ffprobe -show_frames option
+- silencedetect audio filter
+- ffprobe -show_program_version, -show_library_versions, -show_versions options
- rv34: frame-level multi-threading
- optimized iMDCT transform on x86 using SSE for for mpegaudiodec
+- Improved PGS subtitle decoder
+- dumpgraph option to lavfi device
+- r210 and r10k encoders
+- ffwavesynth decoder
+- aviocat tool
+- ffeval tool
+- support encoding and decoding 4-channel SGI images
-version 0.8_beta1:
+version 0.9:
+- openal input device added
+- boxblur filter added
- BWF muxer
- Flash Screen Video 2 decoder
-- ffplay/ffprobe/ffserver renamed to avplay/avprobe/avserver
-- ffmpeg deprecated, added avconv, which is almost the same for now, except
+- lavfi input device added
+- added avconv, which is almost the same for now, except
for a few incompatible changes in the options, which will hopefully make them
easier to use. The changes are:
* The options placement is now strictly enforced! While in theory the
all the stream in the first input file, except for the second audio
stream'.
* There is a new option -c (or -codec) for choosing the decoder/encoder to
- use, which allows to precisely specify target stream(s) consistently with
+ use, which makes it possible to precisely specify target stream(s) consistently with
other options. E.g. -c:v lib264 sets the codec for all video streams, -c:a:0
libvorbis sets the codec for the first audio stream and -c copy copies all
the streams without reencoding. Old -vcodec/-acodec/-scodec options are now
* -vframes/-aframes/-dframes options are now aliases to the new -frames option.
* -vtag/-atag/-stag options are now aliases to the new -tag option.
- XMV demuxer
+- LOAS demuxer
+- ashowinfo filter added
- Windows Media Image decoder
+- amovie source added
- LATM muxer/demuxer
-- showinfo filter
-- split filter
+- Speex encoder via libspeex
+- JSON output in ffprobe
+- WTV muxer
+- Optional C++ Support (needed for libstagefright)
+- H.264 Decoding on Android via Stagefright
+- Prores decoder
+- BIN/XBIN/ADF/IDF text file decoder
+- aconvert audio filter added
+- audio support to lavfi input device added
- libcdio-paranoia input device for audio CD grabbing
-- select filter
- Apple ProRes decoder
- CELT in Ogg demuxing
+- G.723.1 demuxer and decoder
+- libmodplug support (--enable-libmodplug)
- VC-1 interlaced decoding
-- lut, lutrgb, and lutyuv filters
-- boxblur filter
+- libutvideo wrapper (--enable-libutvideo)
+- aevalsrc audio source added
- Ut Video decoder
- Speex encoding via libspeex
- 4:2:2 H.264 decoding support
- 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 H.264 encoding with libx264
- Pulseaudio input device
+- Prores encoder
+- Video Decoder Acceleration (VDA) HWAccel module.
- replacement Indeo 3 decoder
+- new ffmpeg option: -map_channel
+- volume audio filter added
+- earwax audio filter added
+- libv4l2 support (--enable-libv4l2)
- TLS/SSL and HTTPS protocol support
- AVOptions API rewritten and documented
- most of CODEC_FLAG2_*, some CODEC_FLAG_* and many codec-specific fields in
- Discworld II BMV decoding support
- VBLE Decoder
- OS X Video Decoder Acceleration (VDA) support
+- compact and csv output in ffprobe
+- pan audio filter
+- IFF Amiga Continuous Bitmap (ACBM) decoder
+- ass filter
- CRI ADX audio format muxer and demuxer
- Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
+- Microsoft Windows ICO demuxer
+- life source
- PCM format support in OMA demuxer
- CLJR encoder
+- new option: -report
- Dxtory capture format decoder
-- v410 QuickTime uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit encoder and decoder
-- OpenMG Audio muxer
+- cellauto source
- Simple segmenting muxer
- Indeo 4 decoder
- SMJPEG demuxer
-version 0.7:
-
-- E-AC-3 audio encoder
-- ac3enc: add channel coupling support
-- floating-point sample format support for (E-)AC-3, DCA, AAC, Vorbis decoders
-- H.264/MPEG frame-level multithreading
-- av_metadata_* functions renamed to av_dict_* and moved to libavutil
-- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding support
-- 10-bit H.264 optimizations for x86
-- bump libswscale for recently reported ABI break
-
-
-version 0.7_beta2:
-
-- VP8 frame-level multithreading
-- NEON optimizations for VP8
-- removed a lot of deprecated API cruft
-- FFT and IMDCT optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
-- DPX image encoder
-- SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
-- ffmpeg no longer quits after the 'q' key is pressed; use 'ctrl+c' instead
-- 9 bits and 10 bits per sample support in the H.264 decoder
-
-
-version 0.7_beta1:
+version 0.8:
+- many many things we forgot because we rather write code than changelogs
- WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
- low overhead Ogg muxing
- MMS-TCP support
- Demuxer for On2's IVF format
- Pictor/PC Paint decoder
- HE-AAC v2 decoder
+- HE-AAC v2 encoding with libaacplus
- libfaad2 wrapper removed
- DTS-ES extension (XCh) decoding support
- native VP8 decoder
- RTP depacketization of QDM2
- ANSI/ASCII art playback system
- Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
+- libavcore added (and subsequently removed)
- SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
- Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
- ffprobe -show_packets option added
- replace the ocv_smooth filter with a more generic ocv filter
- Windows Televison (WTV) demuxer
- FFmpeg metadata format muxer and demuxer
-- SubRip (srt) subtitle decoder
+- SubRip (srt) subtitle encoder and decoder
- floating-point AC-3 encoder added
- Lagarith decoder
- ffmpeg -copytb option added
- sndio support for playback and record
- Linux framebuffer input device added
- Chronomaster DFA decoder
-- Mobotix MxPEG decoder
+- DPX image encoder
+- MicroDVD subtitle file muxer and demuxer
+- Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
+- fieldorder video filter added
- AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
- AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
- xWMA demuxer
-- fieldorder video filter added
+- Mobotix MxPEG decoder
+- VP8 frame-multithreading
+- NEON optimizations for VP8
+- Lots of deprecated API cruft removed
+- fft and imdct optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
+- showinfo filter added
+- SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
+- Apple Core Audio Format muxer
+- 9 bits and 10 bits per sample support in the H.264 decoder
+- 9 bits and 10 bits FFV1 encoding / decoding
+- split filter added
+- select filter added
+- sdl output device added
+- libmpcodecs video filter support (3 times as many filters than before)
+- mpeg2 aspect ratio dection fixed
+- libxvid aspect pickiness fixed
+- Frame multithreaded decoding
+- E-AC-3 audio encoder
+- ac3enc: add channel coupling support
+- floating-point sample format support to the ac3, eac3, dca, aac, and vorbis decoders.
+- H264/MPEG frame-level multi-threading
+- All av_metadata_* functions renamed to av_dict_* and moved to libavutil
+- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding support
+- 10-bit H.264 optimizations for x86
+- lut, lutrgb, and lutyuv filters added
+- buffersink libavfilter sink added
+- Bump libswscale for recently reported ABI break
+- New J2K encoder (via OpenJPEG)
+
+
+version 0.7:
+
+- all the changes for 0.8, but keeping API/ABI compatibility with the 0.6 release
version 0.6:
- Gopher client support
- MXF D-10 muxer
- generic metadata API
+- flash ScreenVideo2 encoder
version 0.4.9-pre1:
- MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
- ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
- Windows porting of file converter
-- added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
+- added MJPEG raw format (input/output)
- added JPEG image format support (input/output)
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