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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 0.7:
  4. - many many things we forgot because we rather write code than changelogs
  5. - libmpcodecs video filter support (3 times as many filters than before)
  6. - mpeg2 aspect ratio dection fixed
  7. - libxvid aspect pickiness fixed
  8. - Frame multithreaded decoding
  9. - E-AC-3 audio encoder
  10. - ac3enc: add channel coupling support
  11. - floating-point sample format support to the ac3, eac3, dca, aac, and vorbis decoders.
  12. - H264/MPEG frame-level multi-threading
  13. - All av_metadata_* functions renamed to av_dict_* and moved to libavutil
  14. - 4:4:4 H.264 decoding support
  15. - 10-bit H.264 optimizations for x86
  16. - lut, lutrgb, and lutyuv filters added
  17. - buffersink libavfilter sink added
  18. version 0.7_beta2:
  19. - VP8 frame-multithreading
  20. - NEON optimizations for VP8
  21. - Lots of deprecated API cruft removed
  22. - fft and imdct optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
  23. - showinfo filter added
  24. - DPX image encoder
  25. - SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
  26. - Apple Core Audio Format muxer
  27. - 9bit and 10bit per sample support in the H.264 decoder
  28. - 9bit and 10bit FFV1 encoding / decoding
  29. - split filter added
  30. - select filter added
  31. - sdl output device added
  32. version 0.7_beta1:
  33. - WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
  34. - low overhead Ogg muxing
  35. - MMS-TCP support
  36. - VP8 de/encoding via libvpx
  37. - Demuxer for On2's IVF format
  38. - Pictor/PC Paint decoder
  39. - HE-AAC v2 decoder
  40. - libfaad2 wrapper removed
  41. - DTS-ES extension (XCh) decoding support
  42. - native VP8 decoder
  43. - RTSP tunneling over HTTP
  44. - RTP depacketization of SVQ3
  45. - -strict inofficial replaced by -strict unofficial
  46. - ffplay -exitonkeydown and -exitonmousedown options added
  47. - native GSM / GSM MS decoder
  48. - RTP depacketization of QDM2
  49. - ANSI/ASCII art playback system
  50. - Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
  51. - libavcore added
  52. - SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
  53. - Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
  54. - ffprobe -show_packets option added
  55. - RTP packetization of Theora and Vorbis
  56. - RTP depacketization of MP4A-LATM
  57. - RTP packetization and depacketization of VP8
  58. - hflip filter
  59. - Apple HTTP Live Streaming demuxer
  60. - a64 codec
  61. - MMS-HTTP support
  62. - G.722 ADPCM audio encoder/decoder
  63. - R10k video decoder
  64. - ocv_smooth filter
  65. - frei0r wrapper filter
  66. - change crop filter syntax to width:height:x:y
  67. - make the crop filter accept parametric expressions
  68. - make ffprobe accept AVFormatContext options
  69. - yadif filter
  70. - blackframe filter
  71. - Demuxer for Leitch/Harris' VR native stream format (LXF)
  72. - RTP depacketization of the X-QT QuickTime format
  73. - SAP (Session Announcement Protocol, RFC 2974) muxer and demuxer
  74. - cropdetect filter
  75. - ffmpeg -crop* options removed
  76. - transpose filter added
  77. - ffmpeg -force_key_frames option added
  78. - demuxer for receiving raw rtp:// URLs without an SDP description
  79. - single stream LATM/LOAS decoder
  80. - setpts filter added
  81. - Win64 support for optimized asm functions
  82. - MJPEG/AVI1 to JPEG/JFIF bitstream filter
  83. - ASS subtitle encoder and decoder
  84. - IEC 61937 encapsulation for E-AC3, TrueHD, DTS-HD (for HDMI passthrough)
  85. - overlay filter added
  86. - rename aspect filter to setdar, and pixelaspect to setsar
  87. - IEC 61937 demuxer
  88. - Mobotix .mxg demuxer
  89. - frei0r source added
  90. - hqdn3d filter added
  91. - RTP depacketization of QCELP
  92. - FLAC parser added
  93. - gradfun filter added
  94. - AMR-WB decoder
  95. - replace the ocv_smooth filter with a more generic ocv filter
  96. - Windows Televison (WTV) demuxer
  97. - FFmpeg metadata format muxer and demuxer
  98. - SubRip (srt) subtitle encoder and decoder
  99. - floating-point AC-3 encoder added
  100. - Lagarith decoder
  101. - ffmpeg -copytb option added
  102. - IVF muxer added
  103. - Wing Commander IV movies decoder added
  104. - movie source added
  105. - Bink version 'b' audio and video decoder
  106. - Bitmap Brothers JV playback system
  107. - Apple HTTP Live Streaming protocol handler
  108. - sndio support for playback and record
  109. - Linux framebuffer input device added
  110. - Chronomaster DFA decoder
  111. - DPX image encoder
  112. - MicroDVD subtitle file muxer and demuxer
  113. - Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
  114. - fieldorder video filter added
  115. - AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
  116. - AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
  117. - xWMA demuxer
  118. - Mobotix MxPEG decoder
  119. version 0.6:
  120. - PB-frame decoding for H.263
  121. - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
  122. - deprecated old scaler removed
  123. - VQF demuxer
  124. - Alpha channel scaler
  125. - PCX encoder
  126. - RTP packetization of H.263
  127. - RTP packetization of AMR
  128. - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
  129. - CorePNG decoding support
  130. - Cook multichannel decoding support
  131. - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
  132. - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
  133. - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
  134. - V210 decoder and encoder
  135. - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
  136. - QCP demuxer
  137. - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
  138. - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
  139. - DPX image decoder
  140. - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
  141. - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
  142. - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
  143. - experimental AAC encoder
  144. - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
  145. - RTMP support in libavformat
  146. - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
  147. - Wave64 demuxer
  148. - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
  149. - TwinVQ decoder
  150. - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
  151. - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
  152. - WMA Pro decoder
  153. - Core Audio Format demuxer
  154. - Atrac1 decoder
  155. - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
  156. - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
  157. - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
  158. - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
  159. - IV8 demuxer
  160. - CDG demuxer and decoder
  161. - R210 decoder
  162. - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
  163. - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
  164. - SIPR decoder
  165. - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
  166. - RTP depacketization of H.263
  167. - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
  168. - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
  169. - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
  170. - concat protocol
  171. - Indeo 5 decoder
  172. - RTP depacketization of AMR
  173. - WMA Voice decoder
  174. - ffprobe tool
  175. - AMR-NB decoder
  176. - RTSP muxer
  177. - HE-AAC v1 decoder
  178. - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
  179. - VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
  180. - RTP depacketization of Theora
  181. - HTTP Digest authentication
  182. - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
  183. - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
  184. - spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
  185. - unsharp video filter
  186. - RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
  187. - Dirac in Ogg demuxing
  188. - seek to keyframes in Ogg
  189. - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Theora decoding
  190. - 35% faster VP3/Theora decoding
  191. - faster AAC decoding
  192. - faster H.264 decoding
  193. - RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder
  194. version 0.5:
  195. - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
  196. - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
  197. - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
  198. - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
  199. - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
  200. - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
  201. - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
  202. - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
  203. - H.261 video encoder
  204. - QPEG video decoder
  205. - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
  206. - Shorten audio decoder
  207. - LOCO video decoder
  208. - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
  209. - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
  210. - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
  211. - Indeo 2 video decoder
  212. - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
  213. - Snow video encoder/decoder
  214. - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
  215. - Vorbis audio decoder
  216. - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
  217. - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
  218. - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
  219. - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
  220. - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
  221. - QDM2 audio decoder
  222. - Real Cooker audio decoder
  223. - TrueSpeech audio decoder
  224. - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
  225. - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
  226. - JPEG-LS decoder
  227. - build system improvements
  228. - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
  229. - CamStudio video decoder
  230. - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
  231. - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
  232. - Creative VOC file reading and writing
  233. - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
  234. - Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
  235. - improved Theora/VP3 decoder
  236. - True Audio (TTA) decoder
  237. - AVS demuxer and video decoder
  238. - JPEG-LS encoder
  239. - Smacker demuxer and decoder
  240. - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
  241. - KMVC decoder
  242. - MPEG-2 intra VLC support
  243. - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
  244. - Flash Screen Video decoder
  245. - GXF demuxer
  246. - Chinese AVS decoder
  247. - GXF muxer
  248. - MXF demuxer
  249. - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
  250. - MacIntel support
  251. - AVISynth support
  252. - VMware video decoder
  253. - VP5 video decoder
  254. - VP6 video decoder
  255. - WavPack lossless audio decoder
  256. - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
  257. - Vorbis audio encoder
  258. - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
  259. - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
  260. - MTV demuxer
  261. - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
  262. - GIF picture decoder
  263. - Intel Music Coder decoder
  264. - Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
  265. - Musepack decoder
  266. - Flash Screen Video encoder
  267. - Theora encoding via libtheora
  268. - BMP encoder
  269. - WMA encoder
  270. - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
  271. - DCA decoder
  272. - DXA demuxer and decoder
  273. - DNxHD decoder
  274. - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
  275. - Blackfin optimizations
  276. - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
  277. - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
  278. - CRYO APC demuxer
  279. - Atrac3 decoder
  280. - V.Flash PTX decoder
  281. - RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
  282. - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
  283. - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
  284. - sws_flags command line option
  285. - codebook generator
  286. - RoQ video encoder
  287. - QTRLE encoder
  288. - OS/2 support removed and restored again
  289. - AC-3 decoder
  290. - NUT muxer
  291. - additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
  292. - Matroska muxer
  293. - slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
  294. - Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
  295. - AMV audio and video decoder
  296. - DNxHD encoder
  297. - H.264 PAFF decoding
  298. - Nellymoser ASAO decoder
  299. - Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
  300. - libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
  301. - IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
  302. - Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
  303. - The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
  304. - PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
  305. - Sun Rasterfile decoder
  306. - TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
  307. - Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
  308. - AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
  309. - QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
  310. - VFW grabber
  311. - iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
  312. - Mimic decoder
  313. - MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
  314. - RL2 demuxer / decoder
  315. - IFF demuxer
  316. - 8SVX audio decoder
  317. - non-recursive Makefiles
  318. - BFI demuxer
  319. - MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
  320. - BFI video decoder
  321. - OMA demuxer
  322. - MLP/TrueHD decoder
  323. - Electronic Arts CMV decoder
  324. - Motion Pixels Video decoder
  325. - Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
  326. - removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
  327. - D-Cinema audio muxer
  328. - Electronic Arts TGV decoder
  329. - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
  330. - AAC decoder
  331. - floating point PCM encoder/decoder
  332. - MXF muxer
  333. - DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
  334. - E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
  335. - Nellymoser ASAO encoder
  336. - ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
  337. - liba52 wrapper removed
  338. - SVQ3 watermark decoding support
  339. - Speex decoding via libspeex
  340. - Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
  341. - RV40 decoder
  342. - QCELP / PureVoice decoder
  343. - RV30 decoder
  344. - hybrid WavPack support
  345. - R3D REDCODE demuxer
  346. - ALSA support for playback and record
  347. - Electronic Arts TQI decoder
  348. - OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
  349. - NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
  350. - Gopher client support
  351. - MXF D-10 muxer
  352. - generic metadata API
  353. - flash ScreenVideo2 encoder
  354. version 0.4.9-pre1:
  355. - DV encoder, DV muxer
  356. - Microsoft RLE video decoder
  357. - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
  358. - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
  359. - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
  360. - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
  361. - Cinepak decoder
  362. - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
  363. - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
  364. - Id Quake II CIN playback support
  365. - 8BPS video decoder
  366. - FLIC playback support
  367. - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
  368. - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
  369. - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
  370. - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
  371. - SVQ1 video encoder
  372. - AMR-WB support
  373. - PPC optimizations
  374. - rate distortion optimal cbp support
  375. - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
  376. - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
  377. - AAC encoding with libfaac
  378. - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
  379. - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
  380. - Theora/VP3 decoding support
  381. - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
  382. - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
  383. - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
  384. - floating point AAN DCT
  385. - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
  386. - RGB ffv1 support
  387. - new audio/video parser API
  388. - av_log() system
  389. - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
  390. - missing last frame fixes
  391. - seek by mouse in ffplay
  392. - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
  393. - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
  394. - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
  395. - H.263 loop filter
  396. - H.263 slice structured mode
  397. - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
  398. - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
  399. - MB type & QP visualization
  400. - frame stepping for ffplay
  401. - interlaced motion estimation
  402. - alternate scantable support
  403. - SVCD scan offset support
  404. - closed GOP support
  405. - SSE2 FDCT
  406. - quantizer noise shaping
  407. - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
  408. - MS ADPCM encoding
  409. - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
  410. - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
  411. - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
  412. - FLAC decoder
  413. - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
  414. - H.263+ custom pcf support
  415. - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
  416. - Matroska demuxer
  417. - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
  418. - H.264 loop filter support
  419. - H.264 CABAC support
  420. - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
  421. - improved VCD support
  422. - audio timestamp drift compensation
  423. - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
  424. - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
  425. - better image scaling
  426. - H.261 support
  427. - correctly interleave packets during encoding
  428. - VIS optimized motion compensation
  429. - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
  430. - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
  431. - more accurate deblock filter
  432. - padding support
  433. - many optimizations and bugfixes
  434. - FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
  435. version 0.4.8:
  436. - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
  437. - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
  438. - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
  439. and Mario Brito)
  440. - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
  441. - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
  442. - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
  443. version 0.4.7:
  444. - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
  445. (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
  446. - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
  447. - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
  448. Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
  449. - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
  450. - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
  451. than HuffYUV) (Michael)
  452. - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
  453. - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
  454. alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
  455. - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
  456. for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
  457. - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
  458. by anonymous
  459. - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
  460. - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
  461. - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
  462. - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
  463. - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
  464. - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
  465. - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
  466. - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
  467. - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
  468. - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
  469. - qpel encoding (Michael)
  470. - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
  471. - chroma ME (Michael)
  472. - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
  473. - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
  474. - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
  475. - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
  476. - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
  477. - ASV2 codec (Michael)
  478. - CLJR decoder (Alex)
  479. .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
  480. version 0.4.6:
  481. - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
  482. from scratch
  483. - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
  484. - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
  485. - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
  486. - added prototype ffplay program
  487. - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
  488. - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
  489. - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
  490. - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
  491. - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
  492. - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
  493. - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
  494. - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
  495. - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
  496. - added first regression tests
  497. - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
  498. - new demux API for libav
  499. - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
  500. - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
  501. - two pass video encoding (Michael)
  502. - new video rate control (Michael)
  503. - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
  504. - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
  505. - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
  506. - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
  507. - added DV video decoder
  508. - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
  509. - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
  510. - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
  511. - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
  512. - simple stats output (Juanjo)
  513. - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
  514. version 0.4.5:
  515. - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
  516. - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
  517. - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
  518. - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
  519. Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
  520. decoder)
  521. - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
  522. - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
  523. - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
  524. - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
  525. pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
  526. - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
  527. - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
  528. - added support for MPlayer interface
  529. - added macroblock skip optimization
  530. - added MJPEG decoder
  531. - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
  532. - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
  533. <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
  534. - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
  535. - added deinterlacing option
  536. - MPEG-1/2 fixes
  537. - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
  538. - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
  539. - Windows porting of file converter
  540. - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
  541. - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
  542. version 0.4.4:
  543. - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
  544. <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
  545. - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
  546. - added ASF demuxer
  547. - added prototype RM demuxer
  548. - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
  549. - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
  550. header does not include them)
  551. - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
  552. play them (only tested video)
  553. - fixed H.263 white bug
  554. - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
  555. - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
  556. - added CPU autodetection
  557. - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
  558. use them)
  559. - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
  560. decoder)
  561. - added fractional frame rate support
  562. - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
  563. segfault)
  564. version 0.4.3:
  565. - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
  566. - fixed raw yuv output
  567. - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
  568. - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
  569. - added B-frame handling in video core
  570. - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
  571. - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
  572. - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
  573. +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
  574. this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
  575. - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
  576. - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
  577. - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
  578. output.
  579. - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
  580. <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
  581. instead of a protocol)
  582. version 0.4.2:
  583. - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
  584. (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
  585. missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
  586. - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
  587. can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
  588. - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
  589. - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
  590. greenish)
  591. - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
  592. and image sizes non-multiple of 16
  593. - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
  594. - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
  595. - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
  596. version 0.4.1:
  597. - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
  598. of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
  599. - added -me option to set motion estimation method
  600. (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
  601. - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
  602. AVI for example)
  603. - fixed -an option
  604. - improved dct_quantize speed
  605. - factorized some motion estimation code
  606. version 0.4.0:
  607. - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
  608. multistream support to ffmpeg.
  609. - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
  610. URL)
  611. - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
  612. mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
  613. - added multi live feed support in ffserver
  614. - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
  615. external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
  616. ffserver)
  617. - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
  618. done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
  619. ffmpeg.
  620. - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
  621. - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
  622. (see avio.h)
  623. - added WAV format support
  624. - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
  625. - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
  626. (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
  627. - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
  628. - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
  629. - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
  630. codecs
  631. version 0.3.4:
  632. - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
  633. version 0.3.3:
  634. - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
  635. real time at low resolution.
  636. - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
  637. bitrates and large GOP size
  638. version 0.3.2: small fixes
  639. - ASF fixes
  640. - put_seek bug fix
  641. version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
  642. - added AVI support
  643. - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
  644. - added sound for flash format (not tested)
  645. version 0.3: initial public release