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  1. version <next>
  2. - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
  3. - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
  4. - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
  5. - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
  6. - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
  7. - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
  8. - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
  9. - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
  10. - H.261 video encoder
  11. - QPEG video decoder
  12. - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
  13. - Shorten audio decoder
  14. - LOCO video decoder
  15. - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
  16. - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
  17. - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
  18. - Indeo 2 video decoder
  19. - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
  20. - Snow video encoder/decoder
  21. - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
  22. - Vorbis audio encoder/decoder
  23. - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
  24. - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
  25. - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
  26. - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
  27. - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
  28. - QDM2 audio decoder
  29. - Real Cooker audio decoder
  30. - TrueSpeech audio decoder
  31. - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
  32. - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
  33. - JPEG-LS encoder and decoder
  34. - CamStudio video decoder
  35. - build system improvements
  36. - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
  37. - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
  38. - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
  39. - Creative VOC file reading and writing
  40. - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
  41. - Zip Blocks Motion Video decoder
  42. - Improved Theora/VP3 decoder
  43. - True Audio (TTA) decoder
  44. - AVS demuxer and video decoder
  45. - Smacker demuxer and decoder
  46. - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
  47. - KMVC decoder
  48. - MPEG-2 intra vlc support
  49. - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
  50. - Flash Screen Video decoder
  51. - GXF demuxer
  52. - Chinese AVS decoder
  53. - GXF muxer
  54. - MXF demuxer
  55. - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
  56. - MacIntel support
  57. - AVISynth support
  58. - VMware video decoder
  59. - VP5 video decoder
  60. - VP6 video decoder
  61. - WavPack lossless audio decoder
  62. - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
  63. version 0.4.9-pre1:
  64. - DV encoder, DV muxer
  65. - Microsoft RLE video decoder
  66. - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
  67. - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
  68. - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
  69. - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
  70. - Cinepak decoder
  71. - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
  72. - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
  73. - Id Quake II CIN playback support
  74. - 8BPS video decoder
  75. - FLIC playback support
  76. - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
  77. - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
  78. - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
  79. - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
  80. - SVQ1 video encoder
  81. - AMR-WB support
  82. - PPC optimizations
  83. - rate distortion optimal cbp support
  84. - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
  85. - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
  86. - AAC encoding with libfaac
  87. - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
  88. - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
  89. - Theora/VP3 decoding support
  90. - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
  91. - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
  92. - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
  93. - floating point AAN DCT
  94. - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
  95. - RGB ffv1 support
  96. - new audio/video parser API
  97. - av_log() system
  98. - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
  99. - missing last frame fixes
  100. - seek by mouse in ffplay
  101. - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
  102. - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
  103. - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
  104. - H.263 loop filter
  105. - H.263 slice structured mode
  106. - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
  107. - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
  108. - MB type & QP visualization
  109. - frame stepping for ffplay
  110. - interlaced motion estimation
  111. - alternate scantable support
  112. - SVCD scan offset support
  113. - closed GOP support
  114. - SSE2 FDCT
  115. - quantizer noise shaping
  116. - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
  117. - MS ADPCM encoding
  118. - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
  119. - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
  120. - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
  121. - FLAC decoder
  122. - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
  123. - H.263+ custom pcf support
  124. - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
  125. - Matroska demuxer
  126. - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
  127. - H.264 loop filter support
  128. - H.264 CABAC support
  129. - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector vissualization
  130. - improved VCD support
  131. - audio timestamp drift compensation
  132. - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
  133. - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
  134. - better image scaling
  135. - H.261 support
  136. - correctly interleave packets during encoding
  137. - VIS optimized motion compensation
  138. - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
  139. - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
  140. - more accurate deblock filter
  141. - padding support
  142. - many optimizations and bugfixes
  143. version 0.4.8:
  144. - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
  145. - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
  146. - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
  147. and Mario Brito)
  148. - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
  149. - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
  150. - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
  151. version 0.4.7:
  152. - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
  153. (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
  154. - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
  155. - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
  156. Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
  157. - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
  158. - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
  159. than HuffYUV) (Michael)
  160. - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
  161. - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
  162. alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
  163. - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
  164. for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
  165. - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
  166. by anonymous
  167. - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
  168. - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
  169. - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
  170. - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
  171. - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
  172. - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
  173. - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
  174. - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
  175. - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
  176. - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
  177. - qpel encoding (Michael)
  178. - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
  179. - chroma ME (Michael)
  180. - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
  181. - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
  182. - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
  183. - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
  184. - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
  185. - ASV2 codec (Michael)
  186. - CLJR decoder (Alex)
  187. .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
  188. version 0.4.6:
  189. - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
  190. from scratch
  191. - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
  192. - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
  193. - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
  194. - added prototype ffplay program
  195. - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
  196. - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
  197. - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
  198. - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
  199. - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
  200. - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
  201. - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
  202. - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
  203. - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
  204. - added first regression tests
  205. - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
  206. - new demux API for libav
  207. - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
  208. - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
  209. - two pass video encoding (Michael)
  210. - new video rate control (Michael)
  211. - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
  212. - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
  213. - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
  214. - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
  215. - added DV video decoder
  216. - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
  217. - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
  218. - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
  219. - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
  220. - simple stats output (Juanjo)
  221. - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
  222. version 0.4.5:
  223. - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>)
  224. - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k@mail.ru>)
  225. - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
  226. - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
  227. Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
  228. decoder)
  229. - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
  230. - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
  231. - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
  232. - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
  233. pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
  234. - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
  235. - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
  236. - added support for MPlayer interface
  237. - added macroblock skip optimization
  238. - added MJPEG decoder
  239. - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
  240. - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
  241. <celer@shell.scrypt.net>)
  242. - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
  243. - added deinterlacing option
  244. - MPEG-1/2 fixes
  245. - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm@pacbell.net>)
  246. - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer@free.fr>).
  247. - Windows porting of file converter
  248. - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
  249. - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
  250. version 0.4.4:
  251. - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
  252. <bjorn.e.lindgren@telia.com>).
  253. - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
  254. - added ASF demuxer
  255. - added prototype RM demuxer
  256. - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
  257. - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
  258. header does not include them)
  259. - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
  260. play them (only tested video)
  261. - fixed H.263 white bug
  262. - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
  263. - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
  264. - added CPU autodetection
  265. - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
  266. use them)
  267. - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
  268. decoder)
  269. - added fractional frame rate support
  270. - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
  271. segfault)
  272. version 0.4.3:
  273. - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@amsat.org>)
  274. - fixed raw yuv output
  275. - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
  276. - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
  277. - added B-frame handling in video core
  278. - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
  279. - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
  280. - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
  281. +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
  282. this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
  283. - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
  284. - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
  285. - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
  286. output.
  287. - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
  288. <lists@reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
  289. instead of a protocol)
  290. version 0.4.2:
  291. - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
  292. (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
  293. missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
  294. - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
  295. can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
  296. - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
  297. - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
  298. greenish)
  299. - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
  300. and image sizes non-multiple of 16
  301. - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
  302. - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
  303. - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
  304. version 0.4.1:
  305. - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
  306. of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
  307. - added -me option to set motion estimation method
  308. (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
  309. - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
  310. AVI for example)
  311. - fixed -an option
  312. - improved dct_quantize speed
  313. - factorized some motion estimation code
  314. version 0.4.0:
  315. - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
  316. multistream support to ffmpeg.
  317. - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
  318. URL)
  319. - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
  320. mmx/see optimisation). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
  321. - added multi live feed support in ffserver
  322. - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
  323. external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
  324. ffserver)
  325. - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
  326. done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
  327. ffmpeg.
  328. - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
  329. - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
  330. (see avio.h)
  331. - added WAV format support
  332. - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
  333. - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
  334. (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo@atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
  335. - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
  336. - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
  337. - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
  338. codecs
  339. version 0.3.4:
  340. - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
  341. version 0.3.3:
  342. - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
  343. real time at low resolution.
  344. - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
  345. bitrates and large GOP size
  346. version 0.3.2: small fixes
  347. - ASF fixes
  348. - put_seek bug fix
  349. version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
  350. - added AVI support
  351. - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
  352. - added sound for flash format (not tested)
  353. version 0.3: initial public release