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+version 10:
+- av_strnstr
+- support ID3v2 tags in ASF files
+- reference-counting for AVFrame and AVPacket data
+- avconv now fails when input options are used for output file
+ or vice versa
+- new avconv options -filter_script and -filter_complex_script, which allow a
+ filtergraph description to be read from a file
+- uniform options syntax across all filters
+- new interlace filter
+- JPEG 2000 decoder
+- new asetpts filter (same as setpts, but for audio)
+- new trim and atrim filters
+- avconv -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
+- Apple Intermediate Codec decoder
+- Escape 130 video decoder
+- support for slice multithreading in libavfilter
+- VC-1 interlaced B-frame support
+- support for WavPack muxing (raw and in Matroska)
+- Go2Webinar decoder
+- 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
+- incomplete Voxware MetaSound decoder
+
+
+version 9:
+- av_basename and av_dirname
+- adobe and limelight publisher authentication in RTMP
+- VDPAU hardware acceleration through normal hwaccel
+- SRTP support
+
+
+version 9_beta3:
+- ashowinfo audio filter
+- 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
+- support for building DLLs using MSVC
+- remove avserver daemon mode
+- support building on the Plan 9 operating system
+- ffv1: support version 1.3
+
+
+version 9_beta1:
+
+- 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.
+- Indeo Audio decoder
+- channelsplit audio filter
+- RTMPT protocol support
+- iLBC encoding/decoding via libilbc
+- Microsoft Screen 1 decoder
+- join audio filter
+- audio channel mapping filter
+- Microsoft ATC Screen decoder
+- RTSP listen mode
+- TechSmith Screen Codec 2 decoder
+- AAC encoding via libfdk-aac
+- 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
+- Canopus Lossless Codec decoder
+- avconv -shortest option is now per-output file,
+ -pass and -passlogfile are now per-output stream
+- Ut Video encoder
+- Microsoft Screen 2 decoder
+- RTP depacketization of JPEG
+- Smooth Streaming live segmenter muxer
+- RTP packetization of JPEG
+- Opus decoder and encoder using libopus
+- remove -same_quant, it hasn't worked for years
+- support for building with MSVC
+
+
+version 0.8:
+
+- GSM audio parser
+- SMJPEG muxer
+
+
+version 0.8_beta2:
- 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.
+- rv34: frame-level multi-threading
+- optimized iMDCT transform on x86 using SSE for for mpegaudiodec
version 0.8_beta1:
- Discworld II BMV decoding support
- VBLE Decoder
- OS X Video Decoder Acceleration (VDA) support
-- CRI ADX audio format demuxer
+- CRI ADX audio format muxer and demuxer
- Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
- PCM format support in OMA demuxer
- CLJR encoder
- MXF demuxer
- VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
- MacIntel support
-- AVISynth support
+- AviSynth support
- VMware video decoder
- VP5 video decoder
- VP6 video decoder