| Release Notes |
| ============= |
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| * 0.8 "Love" June, 2011 |
| * 0.7.1 "Peace" June, 2011 (identical to 0.8 but using 0.6 ABI/API) |
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| General notes |
| ------------- |
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| This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs, |
| including theora, huffyuv, VP8, H.263, mpeg4 and H.264. Additionally, there has |
| been a major cleanup of |
| both internal and external APIs. For this reason, the major versions of all |
| libraries except libpostproc have been bumped. This means that 0.8 can be installed |
| side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand applications need to be |
| recompiled to use 0.8. |
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| Other important changes are more than 200 bugfixes, known regressions were fixed |
| w.r.t 0.5 and 0.6, additions of decoders including, but not limited to, |
| AMR-WB, single stream LATM/LOAS, G.722 ADPCM, a native VP8 decoder |
| and HE-AACv2. Additionally, many new de/muxers such as WebM in Matroska, Apple |
| HTTP Live Streaming, SAP, IEC 61937 (S/PDIF) have been added. |
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| See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. |
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| Bugreports against FFmpeg git master or the most recent FFmpeg release are |
| accepted. If you are experiencing issues with any formally released version of |
| FFmpeg, please try git master to check if the issue still exists. If it does, |
| make your report against the development code following the usual bug reporting |
| guidelines. |
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| Note, if you have difficulty building for mingw, try --disable-outdev=sdl |
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| API changes |
| ----------- |
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| Please see git log of the public headers or the file doc/APIchanges for |
| programmer-centric information. Note that some long-time deprecated APIs have |
| been removed. Also, a number of additional APIs have been deprecated and might |
| be removed in the next release. |
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| Other notable changes |
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| - high quality dithering in swscale to fix banding issues |
| - ffmpeg is now interactive and various information can be turned on/off while its running |
| - resolution changing support in ffmpeg |
| - sdl output device |
| - optimizations in libavfilter that make it much faster |
| - split, buffer, select, lut, negate filters amongth others |
| - more than 50 new video filters from mplayers libmpcodecs |
| - many ARM NEON optimizations |
| - nonfree libfaad support for AAC decoding removed |
| - 4:4:4 H.264 decoding |
| - 9/10bit H.264 decoding |
| - Win64 Assembler support |
| - native MMSH/MMST support |
| - Windows TV demuxing |
| - native AMR-WB decoding |
| - native GSM-MS decoding |
| - SMPTE 302M decoding |
| - AVS encoding |
