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-- The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
+Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
+releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
+
+
+version 0.7:
+
+- 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
+- MMS-TCP support
+- VP8 de/encoding via libvpx
+- Demuxer for On2's IVF format
+- Pictor/PC Paint decoder
+- HE-AAC v2 decoder
+- libfaad2 wrapper removed
+- DTS-ES extension (XCh) decoding support
+- native VP8 decoder
+- RTSP tunneling over HTTP
+- RTP depacketization of SVQ3
+- -strict inofficial replaced by -strict unofficial
+- ffplay -exitonkeydown and -exitonmousedown options added
+- native GSM / GSM MS decoder
+- RTP depacketization of QDM2
+- ANSI/ASCII art playback system
+- Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
+- SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
+- Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
+- ffprobe -show_packets option added
+- RTP packetization of Theora and Vorbis
+- RTP depacketization of MP4A-LATM
+- RTP packetization and depacketization of VP8
+- hflip filter
+- Apple HTTP Live Streaming demuxer
+- a64 codec
+- MMS-HTTP support
+- 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:
+
+- PB-frame decoding for H.263
+- deprecated vhook subsystem removed
+- deprecated old scaler removed
+- VQF demuxer
+- Alpha channel scaler
+- PCX encoder
+- RTP packetization of H.263
+- RTP packetization of AMR
+- RTP depacketization of Vorbis
+- CorePNG decoding support
+- Cook multichannel decoding support
+- introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
+- 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
+- per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
+- V210 decoder and encoder
+- remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
+- QCP demuxer
+- SoX native format muxer and demuxer
+- AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
+- DPX image decoder
+- Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
+- DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
+- nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
+- experimental AAC encoder
+- RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
+- RTMP support in libavformat
+- noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
+- Wave64 demuxer
+- IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
+- TwinVQ decoder
+- Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
+- LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
+- WMA Pro decoder
+- Core Audio Format demuxer
+- Atrac1 decoder
+- MD STUDIO audio demuxer
+- RF64 support in WAV demuxer
+- MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
+- -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
+- IV8 demuxer
+- CDG demuxer and decoder
+- R210 decoder
+- Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
+- Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
+- SIPR decoder
+- Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
+- RTP depacketization of H.263
+- Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
+- enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
+- IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
+- concat protocol
+- Indeo 5 decoder
+- RTP depacketization of AMR
+- WMA Voice decoder
+- ffprobe tool
+- AMR-NB decoder
+- RTSP muxer
+- HE-AAC v1 decoder
+- Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
+- VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
+- RTP depacketization of Theora
+- HTTP Digest authentication
+- RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
+- Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
+- spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
+- unsharp video filter
+- RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
+- Dirac in Ogg demuxing
+- seek to keyframes in Ogg
+- 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Theora decoding
+- 35% faster VP3/Theora decoding
+- faster AAC decoding
+- faster H.264 decoding
+- RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder
+
+
+version 0.5:
+
- DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
-- DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
- TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
- IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
- Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
- Fraps FPS1 video decoder
- Snow video encoder/decoder
- Sonic audio encoder/decoder
-- Vorbis audio encoder/decoder
+- Vorbis audio decoder
- Macromedia ADPCM decoder
- Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
- support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
- 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
+- JPEG-LS decoder
- build system improvements
- tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
+- CamStudio video decoder
- 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 and encoder
-- Improved Theora/VP3 decoder
+- Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
+- improved Theora/VP3 decoder
- True Audio (TTA) decoder
- AVS demuxer and video decoder
+- JPEG-LS encoder
- Smacker demuxer and decoder
- NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
- KMVC decoder
-- MPEG-2 intra vlc support
+- MPEG-2 intra VLC support
- MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
- Flash Screen Video decoder
- GXF demuxer
- VP6 video decoder
- WavPack lossless audio decoder
- Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
+- Vorbis audio encoder
- Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
- Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
- MTV demuxer
- TIFF picture encoder and decoder
- GIF picture decoder
-- Intel Music decoder
+- Intel Music Coder decoder
+- Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
- Musepack decoder
- Flash Screen Video encoder
- Theora encoding via libtheora
- CRYO APC demuxer
- Atrac3 decoder
- V.Flash PTX decoder
-- RoQ muxer, audio encoder
+- RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
- Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
- extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
- sws_flags command line option
- QTRLE encoder
- OS/2 support removed and restored again
- AC-3 decoder
-- NUT muxer (since r10052)
+- NUT muxer
+- additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
- Matroska muxer
-- Slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
+- slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
- Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
-- additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
- AMV audio and video decoder
- DNxHD encoder
- H.264 PAFF decoding
- Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
- libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
- IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
-- Ogg muxer
+- Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
+- The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
- PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
- Sun Rasterfile decoder
- TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
- AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
- QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
- VFW grabber
-- Ipod/Iphone compatible mp4 muxer
+- iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
- Mimic decoder
- MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
- RL2 demuxer / decoder
- IFF demuxer
- 8SVX audio decoder
+- non-recursive Makefiles
- BFI demuxer
- MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
- BFI video decoder
- AAC decoder
- floating point PCM encoder/decoder
- MXF muxer
+- DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
- E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
- Nellymoser ASAO encoder
- ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
- SVQ3 watermark decoding support
- Speex decoding via libspeex
- Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
-- RV30 and RV40 decoder
+- RV40 decoder
- QCELP / PureVoice decoder
+- RV30 decoder
- hybrid WavPack support
- R3D REDCODE demuxer
+- ALSA support for playback and record
+- Electronic Arts TQI decoder
+- OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
+- NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
+- Gopher client support
+- MXF D-10 muxer
+- generic metadata API
+
version 0.4.9-pre1:
- many optimizations and bugfixes
- FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
+
version 0.4.8:
- MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
- 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
.. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
+
version 0.4.6:
- completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
- simple stats output (Juanjo)
- 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
+
version 0.4.5:
- some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
- added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
- added JPEG image format support (input/output)
+
version 0.4.4:
- fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
- codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
segfault)
+
version 0.4.3:
- BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
<lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
instead of a protocol)
+
version 0.4.2:
- added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
- added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
- added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
+
version 0.4.1:
- added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
- improved dct_quantize speed
- factorized some motion estimation code
+
version 0.4.0:
- removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
- changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
codecs
+
version 0.3.4:
- added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
+
version 0.3.3:
- added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
- fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
bitrates and large GOP size
+
version 0.3.2: small fixes
- ASF fixes
- put_seek bug fix
+
version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
- added AVI support
- added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
- added sound for flash format (not tested)
+
version 0.3: initial public release