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