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+version 0.7:
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+- 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
+- Bump libswscale for recently reported ABI break
+
+
+version 0.7_beta2:
+
+- VP8 frame-multithreading
+- NEON optimizations for VP8
+- Lots of deprecated API cruft removed
+- fft and imdct optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
+- DPX image encoder
+- SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
+- Remove support for quitting ffmpeg with 'q', ctrl+c should be used.
+- 9bit and 10bit per sample support in the H.264 decoder
+
+
+version 0.7_beta1:
- WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
- low overhead Ogg muxing
- RTP depacketization of QDM2
- ANSI/ASCII art playback system
- Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
-- libavcore added
- SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
- Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
- ffprobe -show_packets option added
- Apple HTTP Live Streaming demuxer
- a64 codec
- MMS-HTTP support
-- G.722 ADPCM audio decoder
+- G.722 ADPCM audio encoder/decoder
- R10k video decoder
- ocv_smooth filter
+- frei0r wrapper filter
+- change crop filter syntax to width:height:x:y
+- make the crop filter accept parametric expressions
+- make ffprobe accept AVFormatContext options
+- yadif filter
+- blackframe filter
+- Demuxer for Leitch/Harris' VR native stream format (LXF)
+- RTP depacketization of the X-QT QuickTime format
+- SAP (Session Announcement Protocol, RFC 2974) muxer and demuxer
+- cropdetect filter
+- ffmpeg -crop* options removed
+- transpose filter added
+- ffmpeg -force_key_frames option added
+- demuxer for receiving raw rtp:// URLs without an SDP description
+- single stream LATM/LOAS decoder
+- setpts filter added
+- Win64 support for optimized asm functions
+- MJPEG/AVI1 to JPEG/JFIF bitstream filter
+- ASS subtitle encoder and decoder
+- IEC 61937 encapsulation for E-AC3, TrueHD, DTS-HD (for HDMI passthrough)
+- overlay filter added
+- rename aspect filter to setdar, and pixelaspect to setsar
+- IEC 61937 demuxer
+- Mobotix .mxg demuxer
+- frei0r source added
+- hqdn3d filter added
+- RTP depacketization of QCELP
+- FLAC parser added
+- gradfun filter added
+- AMR-WB decoder
+- 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
+- floating-point AC-3 encoder added
+- Lagarith decoder
+- ffmpeg -copytb option added
+- IVF muxer added
+- Wing Commander IV movies decoder added
+- movie source added
+- Bink version 'b' audio and video decoder
+- Bitmap Brothers JV playback system
+- Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler
+- sndio support for playback and record
+- Linux framebuffer input device added
+- Chronomaster DFA decoder
+- Mobotix MxPEG decoder
+- AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
+- AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
+- xWMA demuxer
+- fieldorder video filter added
version 0.6: