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  1. Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
  2. releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
  3. version <next>:
  4. - Lots of deprecated API cruft removed
  5. - fft and imdct optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
  6. - DPX image encoder
  7. - SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
  8. - Remove support for quitting ffmpeg with 'q', ctrl+c should be used.
  9. version 0.7_beta1:
  10. - WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
  11. - low overhead Ogg muxing
  12. - MMS-TCP support
  13. - VP8 de/encoding via libvpx
  14. - Demuxer for On2's IVF format
  15. - Pictor/PC Paint decoder
  16. - HE-AAC v2 decoder
  17. - libfaad2 wrapper removed
  18. - DTS-ES extension (XCh) decoding support
  19. - native VP8 decoder
  20. - RTSP tunneling over HTTP
  21. - RTP depacketization of SVQ3
  22. - -strict inofficial replaced by -strict unofficial
  23. - ffplay -exitonkeydown and -exitonmousedown options added
  24. - native GSM / GSM MS decoder
  25. - RTP depacketization of QDM2
  26. - ANSI/ASCII art playback system
  27. - Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
  28. - SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
  29. - Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
  30. - ffprobe -show_packets option added
  31. - RTP packetization of Theora and Vorbis
  32. - RTP depacketization of MP4A-LATM
  33. - RTP packetization and depacketization of VP8
  34. - hflip filter
  35. - Apple HTTP Live Streaming demuxer
  36. - a64 codec
  37. - MMS-HTTP support
  38. - G.722 ADPCM audio encoder/decoder
  39. - R10k video decoder
  40. - ocv_smooth filter
  41. - frei0r wrapper filter
  42. - change crop filter syntax to width:height:x:y
  43. - make the crop filter accept parametric expressions
  44. - make ffprobe accept AVFormatContext options
  45. - yadif filter
  46. - blackframe filter
  47. - Demuxer for Leitch/Harris' VR native stream format (LXF)
  48. - RTP depacketization of the X-QT QuickTime format
  49. - SAP (Session Announcement Protocol, RFC 2974) muxer and demuxer
  50. - cropdetect filter
  51. - ffmpeg -crop* options removed
  52. - transpose filter added
  53. - ffmpeg -force_key_frames option added
  54. - demuxer for receiving raw rtp:// URLs without an SDP description
  55. - single stream LATM/LOAS decoder
  56. - setpts filter added
  57. - Win64 support for optimized asm functions
  58. - MJPEG/AVI1 to JPEG/JFIF bitstream filter
  59. - ASS subtitle encoder and decoder
  60. - IEC 61937 encapsulation for E-AC3, TrueHD, DTS-HD (for HDMI passthrough)
  61. - overlay filter added
  62. - rename aspect filter to setdar, and pixelaspect to setsar
  63. - IEC 61937 demuxer
  64. - Mobotix .mxg demuxer
  65. - frei0r source added
  66. - hqdn3d filter added
  67. - RTP depacketization of QCELP
  68. - FLAC parser added
  69. - gradfun filter added
  70. - AMR-WB decoder
  71. - replace the ocv_smooth filter with a more generic ocv filter
  72. - Windows Televison (WTV) demuxer
  73. - FFmpeg metadata format muxer and demuxer
  74. - SubRip (srt) subtitle decoder
  75. - floating-point AC-3 encoder added
  76. - Lagarith decoder
  77. - ffmpeg -copytb option added
  78. - IVF muxer added
  79. - Wing Commander IV movies decoder added
  80. - movie source added
  81. - Bink version 'b' audio and video decoder
  82. - Bitmap Brothers JV playback system
  83. - Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler
  84. - sndio support for playback and record
  85. - Linux framebuffer input device added
  86. - Chronomaster DFA decoder
  87. - Mobotix MxPEG decoder
  88. - AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
  89. - AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
  90. - xWMA demuxer
  91. - fieldorder video filter added
  92. version 0.6:
  93. - PB-frame decoding for H.263
  94. - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
  95. - deprecated old scaler removed
  96. - VQF demuxer
  97. - Alpha channel scaler
  98. - PCX encoder
  99. - RTP packetization of H.263
  100. - RTP packetization of AMR
  101. - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
  102. - CorePNG decoding support
  103. - Cook multichannel decoding support
  104. - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
  105. - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
  106. - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
  107. - V210 decoder and encoder
  108. - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
  109. - QCP demuxer
  110. - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
  111. - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
  112. - DPX image decoder
  113. - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
  114. - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
  115. - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
  116. - experimental AAC encoder
  117. - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
  118. - RTMP support in libavformat
  119. - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
  120. - Wave64 demuxer
  121. - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
  122. - TwinVQ decoder
  123. - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
  124. - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
  125. - WMA Pro decoder
  126. - Core Audio Format demuxer
  127. - Atrac1 decoder
  128. - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
  129. - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
  130. - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
  131. - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
  132. - IV8 demuxer
  133. - CDG demuxer and decoder
  134. - R210 decoder
  135. - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
  136. - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
  137. - SIPR decoder
  138. - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
  139. - RTP depacketization of H.263
  140. - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
  141. - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
  142. - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
  143. - concat protocol
  144. - Indeo 5 decoder
  145. - RTP depacketization of AMR
  146. - WMA Voice decoder
  147. - ffprobe tool
  148. - AMR-NB decoder
  149. - RTSP muxer
  150. - HE-AAC v1 decoder
  151. - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
  152. - VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
  153. - RTP depacketization of Theora
  154. - HTTP Digest authentication
  155. - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
  156. - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
  157. - spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
  158. - unsharp video filter
  159. - RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
  160. - Dirac in Ogg demuxing
  161. - seek to keyframes in Ogg
  162. - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Theora decoding
  163. - 35% faster VP3/Theora decoding
  164. - faster AAC decoding
  165. - faster H.264 decoding
  166. - RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder
  167. version 0.5:
  168. - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
  169. - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
  170. - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
  171. - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
  172. - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
  173. - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
  174. - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
  175. - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
  176. - H.261 video encoder
  177. - QPEG video decoder
  178. - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
  179. - Shorten audio decoder
  180. - LOCO video decoder
  181. - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
  182. - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
  183. - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
  184. - Indeo 2 video decoder
  185. - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
  186. - Snow video encoder/decoder
  187. - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
  188. - Vorbis audio decoder
  189. - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
  190. - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
  191. - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
  192. - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
  193. - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
  194. - QDM2 audio decoder
  195. - Real Cooker audio decoder
  196. - TrueSpeech audio decoder
  197. - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
  198. - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
  199. - JPEG-LS decoder
  200. - build system improvements
  201. - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
  202. - CamStudio video decoder
  203. - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
  204. - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
  205. - Creative VOC file reading and writing
  206. - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
  207. - Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
  208. - improved Theora/VP3 decoder
  209. - True Audio (TTA) decoder
  210. - AVS demuxer and video decoder
  211. - JPEG-LS encoder
  212. - Smacker demuxer and decoder
  213. - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
  214. - KMVC decoder
  215. - MPEG-2 intra VLC support
  216. - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
  217. - Flash Screen Video decoder
  218. - GXF demuxer
  219. - Chinese AVS decoder
  220. - GXF muxer
  221. - MXF demuxer
  222. - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
  223. - MacIntel support
  224. - AVISynth support
  225. - VMware video decoder
  226. - VP5 video decoder
  227. - VP6 video decoder
  228. - WavPack lossless audio decoder
  229. - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
  230. - Vorbis audio encoder
  231. - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
  232. - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
  233. - MTV demuxer
  234. - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
  235. - GIF picture decoder
  236. - Intel Music Coder decoder
  237. - Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
  238. - Musepack decoder
  239. - Flash Screen Video encoder
  240. - Theora encoding via libtheora
  241. - BMP encoder
  242. - WMA encoder
  243. - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
  244. - DCA decoder
  245. - DXA demuxer and decoder
  246. - DNxHD decoder
  247. - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
  248. - Blackfin optimizations
  249. - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
  250. - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
  251. - CRYO APC demuxer
  252. - Atrac3 decoder
  253. - V.Flash PTX decoder
  254. - RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
  255. - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
  256. - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
  257. - sws_flags command line option
  258. - codebook generator
  259. - RoQ video encoder
  260. - QTRLE encoder
  261. - OS/2 support removed and restored again
  262. - AC-3 decoder
  263. - NUT muxer
  264. - additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
  265. - Matroska muxer
  266. - slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
  267. - Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
  268. - AMV audio and video decoder
  269. - DNxHD encoder
  270. - H.264 PAFF decoding
  271. - Nellymoser ASAO decoder
  272. - Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
  273. - libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
  274. - IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
  275. - Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
  276. - The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
  277. - PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
  278. - Sun Rasterfile decoder
  279. - TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
  280. - Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
  281. - AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
  282. - QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
  283. - VFW grabber
  284. - iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
  285. - Mimic decoder
  286. - MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
  287. - RL2 demuxer / decoder
  288. - IFF demuxer
  289. - 8SVX audio decoder
  290. - non-recursive Makefiles
  291. - BFI demuxer
  292. - MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
  293. - BFI video decoder
  294. - OMA demuxer
  295. - MLP/TrueHD decoder
  296. - Electronic Arts CMV decoder
  297. - Motion Pixels Video decoder
  298. - Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
  299. - removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
  300. - D-Cinema audio muxer
  301. - Electronic Arts TGV decoder
  302. - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
  303. - AAC decoder
  304. - floating point PCM encoder/decoder
  305. - MXF muxer
  306. - DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
  307. - E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
  308. - Nellymoser ASAO encoder
  309. - ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
  310. - liba52 wrapper removed
  311. - SVQ3 watermark decoding support
  312. - Speex decoding via libspeex
  313. - Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
  314. - RV40 decoder
  315. - QCELP / PureVoice decoder
  316. - RV30 decoder
  317. - hybrid WavPack support
  318. - R3D REDCODE demuxer
  319. - ALSA support for playback and record
  320. - Electronic Arts TQI decoder
  321. - OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
  322. - NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
  323. - Gopher client support
  324. - MXF D-10 muxer
  325. - generic metadata API
  326. version 0.4.9-pre1:
  327. - DV encoder, DV muxer
  328. - Microsoft RLE video decoder
  329. - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
  330. - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
  331. - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
  332. - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
  333. - Cinepak decoder
  334. - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
  335. - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
  336. - Id Quake II CIN playback support
  337. - 8BPS video decoder
  338. - FLIC playback support
  339. - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
  340. - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
  341. - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
  342. - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
  343. - SVQ1 video encoder
  344. - AMR-WB support
  345. - PPC optimizations
  346. - rate distortion optimal cbp support
  347. - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
  348. - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
  349. - AAC encoding with libfaac
  350. - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
  351. - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
  352. - Theora/VP3 decoding support
  353. - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
  354. - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
  355. - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
  356. - floating point AAN DCT
  357. - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
  358. - RGB ffv1 support
  359. - new audio/video parser API
  360. - av_log() system
  361. - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
  362. - missing last frame fixes
  363. - seek by mouse in ffplay
  364. - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
  365. - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
  366. - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
  367. - H.263 loop filter
  368. - H.263 slice structured mode
  369. - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
  370. - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
  371. - MB type & QP visualization
  372. - frame stepping for ffplay
  373. - interlaced motion estimation
  374. - alternate scantable support
  375. - SVCD scan offset support
  376. - closed GOP support
  377. - SSE2 FDCT
  378. - quantizer noise shaping
  379. - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
  380. - MS ADPCM encoding
  381. - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
  382. - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
  383. - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
  384. - FLAC decoder
  385. - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
  386. - H.263+ custom pcf support
  387. - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
  388. - Matroska demuxer
  389. - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
  390. - H.264 loop filter support
  391. - H.264 CABAC support
  392. - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
  393. - improved VCD support
  394. - audio timestamp drift compensation
  395. - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
  396. - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
  397. - better image scaling
  398. - H.261 support
  399. - correctly interleave packets during encoding
  400. - VIS optimized motion compensation
  401. - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
  402. - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
  403. - more accurate deblock filter
  404. - padding support
  405. - many optimizations and bugfixes
  406. - FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
  407. version 0.4.8:
  408. - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
  409. - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
  410. - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
  411. and Mario Brito)
  412. - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
  413. - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
  414. - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
  415. version 0.4.7:
  416. - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
  417. (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
  418. - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
  419. - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
  420. Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
  421. - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
  422. - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
  423. than HuffYUV) (Michael)
  424. - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
  425. - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
  426. alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
  427. - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
  428. for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
  429. - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
  430. by anonymous
  431. - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
  432. - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
  433. - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
  434. - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
  435. - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
  436. - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
  437. - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
  438. - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
  439. - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
  440. - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
  441. - qpel encoding (Michael)
  442. - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
  443. - chroma ME (Michael)
  444. - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
  445. - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
  446. - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
  447. - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
  448. - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
  449. - ASV2 codec (Michael)
  450. - CLJR decoder (Alex)
  451. .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
  452. version 0.4.6:
  453. - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
  454. from scratch
  455. - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
  456. - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
  457. - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
  458. - added prototype ffplay program
  459. - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
  460. - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
  461. - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
  462. - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
  463. - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
  464. - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
  465. - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
  466. - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
  467. - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
  468. - added first regression tests
  469. - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
  470. - new demux API for libav
  471. - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
  472. - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
  473. - two pass video encoding (Michael)
  474. - new video rate control (Michael)
  475. - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
  476. - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
  477. - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
  478. - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
  479. - added DV video decoder
  480. - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
  481. - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
  482. - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
  483. - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
  484. - simple stats output (Juanjo)
  485. - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
  486. version 0.4.5:
  487. - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
  488. - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
  489. - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
  490. - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
  491. Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
  492. decoder)
  493. - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
  494. - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
  495. - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
  496. - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
  497. pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
  498. - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
  499. - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
  500. - added support for MPlayer interface
  501. - added macroblock skip optimization
  502. - added MJPEG decoder
  503. - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
  504. - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
  505. <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
  506. - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
  507. - added deinterlacing option
  508. - MPEG-1/2 fixes
  509. - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
  510. - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
  511. - Windows porting of file converter
  512. - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
  513. - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
  514. version 0.4.4:
  515. - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
  516. <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
  517. - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
  518. - added ASF demuxer
  519. - added prototype RM demuxer
  520. - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
  521. - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
  522. header does not include them)
  523. - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
  524. play them (only tested video)
  525. - fixed H.263 white bug
  526. - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
  527. - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
  528. - added CPU autodetection
  529. - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
  530. use them)
  531. - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
  532. decoder)
  533. - added fractional frame rate support
  534. - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
  535. segfault)
  536. version 0.4.3:
  537. - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
  538. - fixed raw yuv output
  539. - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
  540. - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
  541. - added B-frame handling in video core
  542. - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
  543. - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
  544. - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
  545. +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
  546. this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
  547. - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
  548. - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
  549. - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
  550. output.
  551. - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
  552. <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
  553. instead of a protocol)
  554. version 0.4.2:
  555. - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
  556. (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
  557. missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
  558. - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
  559. can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
  560. - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
  561. - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
  562. greenish)
  563. - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
  564. and image sizes non-multiple of 16
  565. - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
  566. - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
  567. - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
  568. version 0.4.1:
  569. - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
  570. of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
  571. - added -me option to set motion estimation method
  572. (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
  573. - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
  574. AVI for example)
  575. - fixed -an option
  576. - improved dct_quantize speed
  577. - factorized some motion estimation code
  578. version 0.4.0:
  579. - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
  580. multistream support to ffmpeg.
  581. - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
  582. URL)
  583. - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
  584. mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
  585. - added multi live feed support in ffserver
  586. - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
  587. external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
  588. ffserver)
  589. - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
  590. done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
  591. ffmpeg.
  592. - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
  593. - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
  594. (see avio.h)
  595. - added WAV format support
  596. - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
  597. - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
  598. (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
  599. - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
  600. - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
  601. - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
  602. codecs
  603. version 0.3.4:
  604. - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
  605. version 0.3.3:
  606. - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
  607. real time at low resolution.
  608. - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
  609. bitrates and large GOP size
  610. version 0.3.2: small fixes
  611. - ASF fixes
  612. - put_seek bug fix
  613. version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
  614. - added AVI support
  615. - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
  616. - added sound for flash format (not tested)
  617. version 0.3: initial public release