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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
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+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
- G.729 raw demuxer
- MagicYUV decoder
- Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time decoder
-- Intel QSV video scaling filter
+- 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
version 11: