FFmpeg/RELEASE

Release Notes
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* 0.6 "Works with HTML5" June, 2010

General notes
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This release features a lot of improvements that are relevant for HTML5 video.
The H.264 and Theora decoders are now significantly faster, the vorbis decoder
has seen important updates and this release supports Google's newly released
libvpx library. Please note that for license reasons, we consider binaries of
FFmpeg and libavcodec that are linked against libvpx unredistributable. We are
confident that the situation will improve upstream; in this case, we will
rectify this issue in a (future) point release.

Other important changes are additions of decoders for popular codecs as
Intel Indeo 5, WMA Pro, WMA Voice and HE-AAC.

See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes.

Please note that our policy on bug reports has not changed. We still only accept
bug reports against HEAD of the FFmpeg trunk repository. If you are experiencing
any issues with any formally released version of FFmpeg, please try a current
version of the development code to check if the issue still exists. If it does,
make your report against the development code following the usual bug reporting
guidelines.


API and other notable Changes
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Please see the file doc/APIchanges for programmer-centric information.

Notable changes:
- deprecated vhook subsystem removed
- deprecated old scaler removed
- nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
- RTMP support in libavformat
- -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
- ffprobe tool
- RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
- CODEC_CAP_EXPERIMENTAL added


Added Codecs:
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- VQF demuxer
- PCX encoder
- CorePNG decoding support
- 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
- enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
- V210 decoder and encoder
- QCP demuxer
- SoX native format muxer and demuxer
- AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
- DPX image decoder
- Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
- DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
- experimental AAC encoder
- Wave64 demuxer
- IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
- TwinVQ decoder
- Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
- LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
- WMA Pro decoder
- Core Audio Format demuxer
- Atrac1 decoder
- MD STUDIO audio demuxer
- RF64 support in WAV demuxer
- MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
- IV8 demuxer
- CDG demuxer and decoder
- R210 decoder
- Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
- Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
- SIPR decoder
- Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
- RTP packetization and depacketization of H.263 and AMR
- Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
- IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
- Indeo 5 decoder
- WMA Voice decoder
- AMR-NB decoder
- RTSP muxer
- HE-AAC v1 decoder
- Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
- Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
- RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
- VP8 decoding via libvpx


Notable license related changes
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- remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
- libswscale can now be compiled in LGPL mode
- libvpx is considered (L)GPL incompatible