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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
+- 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
- Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
- DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
- nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
-- Experimental AAC encoder
+- experimental AAC encoder
- RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
- RTMP support in libavformat
- noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
- TwinVQ decoder
- Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
- LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
-- Wmapro decoder
+- WMA Pro decoder
- Core Audio Format demuxer
- Atrac1 decoder
- MD STUDIO audio demuxer
- concat protocol
- Indeo 5 decoder
- RTP depacketization of AMR
-- WMAVoice decoder
-- FFprobe tool
+- 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
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+- 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:
- generic metadata API
-
version 0.4.9-pre1:
- DV encoder, DV muxer
- FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
-
version 0.4.8:
- MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
- Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
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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.
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version 0.4.6:
- completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
- 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 JPEG image format support (input/output)
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version 0.4.4:
- fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
segfault)
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version 0.4.3:
- BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
instead of a protocol)
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version 0.4.2:
- added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
- factorized some motion estimation code
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version 0.4.0:
- removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
codecs
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version 0.3.4:
- added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
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version 0.3.3:
- added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
bitrates and large GOP size
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version 0.3.2: small fixes
- ASF fixes
- put_seek bug fix
-
version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
- added AVI support
- added sound for flash format (not tested)
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version 0.3: initial public release