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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 0.7.1:
  4. - added various additional FOURCC codec identifiers
  5. - H.264 4:4:4 fixes
  6. - build system and compilation fixes
  7. - Doxygen and general documentation corrections and improvements
  8. - fixed segfault in ffprobe
  9. - behavioral fix in av_open_input_stream()
  10. - Licensing clarification for LGPL'ed vf_gradfun
  11. - bugfixes while seeking in multithreaded decoding
  12. - support newer versions of OpenCV
  13. - ffmpeg: fix operation with --disable-avfilter
  14. - fixed integer underflow in matroska decoder
  15. version 0.7:
  16. - E-AC-3 audio encoder
  17. - ac3enc: add channel coupling support
  18. - floating-point sample format support for (E-)AC-3, DCA, AAC, Vorbis decoders
  19. - H.264/MPEG frame-level multithreading
  20. - av_metadata_* functions renamed to av_dict_* and moved to libavutil
  21. - 4:4:4 H.264 decoding support
  22. - 10-bit H.264 optimizations for x86
  23. - bump libswscale for recently reported ABI break
  24. version 0.7_beta2:
  25. - VP8 frame-level multithreading
  26. - NEON optimizations for VP8
  27. - removed a lot of deprecated API cruft
  28. - FFT and IMDCT optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
  29. - DPX image encoder
  30. - SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
  31. - ffmpeg no longer quits after the 'q' key is pressed; use 'ctrl+c' instead
  32. - 9bit and 10bit per sample support in the H.264 decoder
  33. version 0.7_beta1:
  34. - WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
  35. - low overhead Ogg muxing
  36. - MMS-TCP support
  37. - VP8 de/encoding via libvpx
  38. - Demuxer for On2's IVF format
  39. - Pictor/PC Paint decoder
  40. - HE-AAC v2 decoder
  41. - libfaad2 wrapper removed
  42. - DTS-ES extension (XCh) decoding support
  43. - native VP8 decoder
  44. - RTSP tunneling over HTTP
  45. - RTP depacketization of SVQ3
  46. - -strict inofficial replaced by -strict unofficial
  47. - ffplay -exitonkeydown and -exitonmousedown options added
  48. - native GSM / GSM MS decoder
  49. - RTP depacketization of QDM2
  50. - ANSI/ASCII art playback system
  51. - Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
  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 x86 assembly functions
  82. - MJPEG/AVI1 to JPEG/JFIF bitstream filter
  83. - ASS subtitle encoder and decoder
  84. - IEC 61937 encapsulation for E-AC-3, 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 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. - Mobotix MxPEG decoder
  112. - AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
  113. - AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
  114. - xWMA demuxer
  115. - fieldorder video filter added
  116. version 0.6:
  117. - PB-frame decoding for H.263
  118. - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
  119. - deprecated old scaler removed
  120. - VQF demuxer
  121. - Alpha channel scaler
  122. - PCX encoder
  123. - RTP packetization of H.263
  124. - RTP packetization of AMR
  125. - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
  126. - CorePNG decoding support
  127. - Cook multichannel decoding support
  128. - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
  129. - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
  130. - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
  131. - V210 decoder and encoder
  132. - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
  133. - QCP demuxer
  134. - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
  135. - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
  136. - DPX image decoder
  137. - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
  138. - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
  139. - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
  140. - experimental AAC encoder
  141. - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
  142. - RTMP support in libavformat
  143. - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
  144. - Wave64 demuxer
  145. - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
  146. - TwinVQ decoder
  147. - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
  148. - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
  149. - WMA Pro decoder
  150. - Core Audio Format demuxer
  151. - Atrac1 decoder
  152. - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
  153. - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
  154. - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
  155. - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
  156. - IV8 demuxer
  157. - CDG demuxer and decoder
  158. - R210 decoder
  159. - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
  160. - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
  161. - SIPR decoder
  162. - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
  163. - RTP depacketization of H.263
  164. - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
  165. - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
  166. - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
  167. - concat protocol
  168. - Indeo 5 decoder
  169. - RTP depacketization of AMR
  170. - WMA Voice decoder
  171. - ffprobe tool
  172. - AMR-NB decoder
  173. - RTSP muxer
  174. - HE-AAC v1 decoder
  175. - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
  176. - VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
  177. - RTP depacketization of Theora
  178. - HTTP Digest authentication
  179. - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
  180. - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
  181. - spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
  182. - unsharp video filter
  183. - RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
  184. - Dirac in Ogg demuxing
  185. - seek to keyframes in Ogg
  186. - 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Theora decoding
  187. - 35% faster VP3/Theora decoding
  188. - faster AAC decoding
  189. - faster H.264 decoding
  190. - RealAudio 1.0 (14.4K) encoder
  191. version 0.5:
  192. - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
  193. - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
  194. - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
  195. - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
  196. - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
  197. - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
  198. - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
  199. - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
  200. - H.261 video encoder
  201. - QPEG video decoder
  202. - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
  203. - Shorten audio decoder
  204. - LOCO video decoder
  205. - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
  206. - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
  207. - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
  208. - Indeo 2 video decoder
  209. - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
  210. - Snow video encoder/decoder
  211. - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
  212. - Vorbis audio decoder
  213. - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
  214. - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
  215. - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
  216. - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
  217. - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
  218. - QDM2 audio decoder
  219. - Real Cooker audio decoder
  220. - TrueSpeech audio decoder
  221. - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
  222. - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
  223. - JPEG-LS decoder
  224. - build system improvements
  225. - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
  226. - CamStudio video decoder
  227. - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
  228. - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
  229. - Creative VOC file reading and writing
  230. - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
  231. - Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
  232. - improved Theora/VP3 decoder
  233. - True Audio (TTA) decoder
  234. - AVS demuxer and video decoder
  235. - JPEG-LS encoder
  236. - Smacker demuxer and decoder
  237. - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
  238. - KMVC decoder
  239. - MPEG-2 intra VLC support
  240. - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
  241. - Flash Screen Video decoder
  242. - GXF demuxer
  243. - Chinese AVS decoder
  244. - GXF muxer
  245. - MXF demuxer
  246. - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
  247. - MacIntel support
  248. - AVISynth support
  249. - VMware video decoder
  250. - VP5 video decoder
  251. - VP6 video decoder
  252. - WavPack lossless audio decoder
  253. - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
  254. - Vorbis audio encoder
  255. - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
  256. - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
  257. - MTV demuxer
  258. - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
  259. - GIF picture decoder
  260. - Intel Music Coder decoder
  261. - Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
  262. - Musepack decoder
  263. - Flash Screen Video encoder
  264. - Theora encoding via libtheora
  265. - BMP encoder
  266. - WMA encoder
  267. - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
  268. - DCA decoder
  269. - DXA demuxer and decoder
  270. - DNxHD decoder
  271. - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
  272. - Blackfin optimizations
  273. - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
  274. - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
  275. - CRYO APC demuxer
  276. - Atrac3 decoder
  277. - V.Flash PTX decoder
  278. - RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
  279. - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
  280. - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
  281. - sws_flags command line option
  282. - codebook generator
  283. - RoQ video encoder
  284. - QTRLE encoder
  285. - OS/2 support removed and restored again
  286. - AC-3 decoder
  287. - NUT muxer
  288. - additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
  289. - Matroska muxer
  290. - slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
  291. - Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
  292. - AMV audio and video decoder
  293. - DNxHD encoder
  294. - H.264 PAFF decoding
  295. - Nellymoser ASAO decoder
  296. - Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
  297. - libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
  298. - IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
  299. - Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
  300. - The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
  301. - PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
  302. - Sun Rasterfile decoder
  303. - TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
  304. - Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
  305. - AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
  306. - QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
  307. - VFW grabber
  308. - iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
  309. - Mimic decoder
  310. - MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
  311. - RL2 demuxer / decoder
  312. - IFF demuxer
  313. - 8SVX audio decoder
  314. - non-recursive Makefiles
  315. - BFI demuxer
  316. - MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
  317. - BFI video decoder
  318. - OMA demuxer
  319. - MLP/TrueHD decoder
  320. - Electronic Arts CMV decoder
  321. - Motion Pixels Video decoder
  322. - Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
  323. - removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
  324. - D-Cinema audio muxer
  325. - Electronic Arts TGV decoder
  326. - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
  327. - AAC decoder
  328. - floating point PCM encoder/decoder
  329. - MXF muxer
  330. - DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
  331. - E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
  332. - Nellymoser ASAO encoder
  333. - ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
  334. - liba52 wrapper removed
  335. - SVQ3 watermark decoding support
  336. - Speex decoding via libspeex
  337. - Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
  338. - RV40 decoder
  339. - QCELP / PureVoice decoder
  340. - RV30 decoder
  341. - hybrid WavPack support
  342. - R3D REDCODE demuxer
  343. - ALSA support for playback and record
  344. - Electronic Arts TQI decoder
  345. - OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
  346. - NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
  347. - Gopher client support
  348. - MXF D-10 muxer
  349. - generic metadata API
  350. version 0.4.9-pre1:
  351. - DV encoder, DV muxer
  352. - Microsoft RLE video decoder
  353. - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
  354. - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
  355. - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
  356. - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
  357. - Cinepak decoder
  358. - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
  359. - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
  360. - Id Quake II CIN playback support
  361. - 8BPS video decoder
  362. - FLIC playback support
  363. - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
  364. - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
  365. - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
  366. - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
  367. - SVQ1 video encoder
  368. - AMR-WB support
  369. - PPC optimizations
  370. - rate distortion optimal cbp support
  371. - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
  372. - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
  373. - AAC encoding with libfaac
  374. - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
  375. - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
  376. - Theora/VP3 decoding support
  377. - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
  378. - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
  379. - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
  380. - floating point AAN DCT
  381. - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
  382. - RGB ffv1 support
  383. - new audio/video parser API
  384. - av_log() system
  385. - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
  386. - missing last frame fixes
  387. - seek by mouse in ffplay
  388. - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
  389. - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
  390. - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
  391. - H.263 loop filter
  392. - H.263 slice structured mode
  393. - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
  394. - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
  395. - MB type & QP visualization
  396. - frame stepping for ffplay
  397. - interlaced motion estimation
  398. - alternate scantable support
  399. - SVCD scan offset support
  400. - closed GOP support
  401. - SSE2 FDCT
  402. - quantizer noise shaping
  403. - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
  404. - MS ADPCM encoding
  405. - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
  406. - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
  407. - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
  408. - FLAC decoder
  409. - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
  410. - H.263+ custom pcf support
  411. - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
  412. - Matroska demuxer
  413. - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
  414. - H.264 loop filter support
  415. - H.264 CABAC support
  416. - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
  417. - improved VCD support
  418. - audio timestamp drift compensation
  419. - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
  420. - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
  421. - better image scaling
  422. - H.261 support
  423. - correctly interleave packets during encoding
  424. - VIS optimized motion compensation
  425. - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
  426. - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
  427. - more accurate deblock filter
  428. - padding support
  429. - many optimizations and bugfixes
  430. - FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
  431. version 0.4.8:
  432. - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
  433. - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
  434. - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
  435. and Mario Brito)
  436. - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
  437. - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
  438. - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
  439. version 0.4.7:
  440. - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
  441. (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
  442. - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
  443. - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
  444. Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
  445. - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
  446. - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
  447. than HuffYUV) (Michael)
  448. - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
  449. - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
  450. alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
  451. - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
  452. for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
  453. - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
  454. by anonymous
  455. - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
  456. - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
  457. - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
  458. - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
  459. - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
  460. - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
  461. - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
  462. - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
  463. - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
  464. - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
  465. - qpel encoding (Michael)
  466. - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
  467. - chroma ME (Michael)
  468. - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
  469. - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
  470. - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
  471. - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
  472. - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
  473. - ASV2 codec (Michael)
  474. - CLJR decoder (Alex)
  475. .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
  476. version 0.4.6:
  477. - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
  478. from scratch
  479. - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
  480. - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
  481. - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
  482. - added prototype ffplay program
  483. - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
  484. - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
  485. - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
  486. - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
  487. - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
  488. - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
  489. - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
  490. - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
  491. - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
  492. - added first regression tests
  493. - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
  494. - new demux API for libav
  495. - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
  496. - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
  497. - two pass video encoding (Michael)
  498. - new video rate control (Michael)
  499. - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
  500. - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
  501. - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
  502. - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
  503. - added DV video decoder
  504. - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
  505. - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
  506. - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
  507. - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
  508. - simple stats output (Juanjo)
  509. - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
  510. version 0.4.5:
  511. - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
  512. - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
  513. - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
  514. - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
  515. Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
  516. decoder)
  517. - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
  518. - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
  519. - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
  520. - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
  521. pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
  522. - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
  523. - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
  524. - added support for MPlayer interface
  525. - added macroblock skip optimization
  526. - added MJPEG decoder
  527. - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
  528. - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
  529. <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
  530. - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
  531. - added deinterlacing option
  532. - MPEG-1/2 fixes
  533. - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
  534. - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
  535. - Windows porting of file converter
  536. - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
  537. - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
  538. version 0.4.4:
  539. - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
  540. <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
  541. - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
  542. - added ASF demuxer
  543. - added prototype RM demuxer
  544. - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
  545. - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
  546. header does not include them)
  547. - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
  548. play them (only tested video)
  549. - fixed H.263 white bug
  550. - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
  551. - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
  552. - added CPU autodetection
  553. - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
  554. use them)
  555. - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
  556. decoder)
  557. - added fractional frame rate support
  558. - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
  559. segfault)
  560. version 0.4.3:
  561. - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
  562. - fixed raw yuv output
  563. - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
  564. - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
  565. - added B-frame handling in video core
  566. - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
  567. - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
  568. - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
  569. +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
  570. this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
  571. - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
  572. - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
  573. - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
  574. output.
  575. - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
  576. <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
  577. instead of a protocol)
  578. version 0.4.2:
  579. - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
  580. (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
  581. missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
  582. - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
  583. can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
  584. - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
  585. - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
  586. greenish)
  587. - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
  588. and image sizes non-multiple of 16
  589. - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
  590. - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
  591. - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
  592. version 0.4.1:
  593. - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
  594. of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
  595. - added -me option to set motion estimation method
  596. (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
  597. - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
  598. AVI for example)
  599. - fixed -an option
  600. - improved dct_quantize speed
  601. - factorized some motion estimation code
  602. version 0.4.0:
  603. - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
  604. multistream support to ffmpeg.
  605. - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
  606. URL)
  607. - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
  608. mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
  609. - added multi live feed support in ffserver
  610. - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
  611. external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
  612. ffserver)
  613. - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
  614. done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
  615. ffmpeg.
  616. - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
  617. - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
  618. (see avio.h)
  619. - added WAV format support
  620. - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
  621. - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
  622. (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
  623. - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
  624. - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
  625. - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
  626. codecs
  627. version 0.3.4:
  628. - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
  629. version 0.3.3:
  630. - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
  631. real time at low resolution.
  632. - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
  633. bitrates and large GOP size
  634. version 0.3.2: small fixes
  635. - ASF fixes
  636. - put_seek bug fix
  637. version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
  638. - added AVI support
  639. - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
  640. - added sound for flash format (not tested)
  641. version 0.3: initial public release