| Release Notes |
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| * 0.10 "Freedom" January, 2012 |
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| General notes |
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| This release is binary compatible with 0.8 and 0.9. |
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| See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. Note, there |
| are many more new features and bugfixes than whats listed there. |
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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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| API changes |
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| A number of additional APIs have been introduced and some existing |
| functions have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next |
| release. Significant API changes include: |
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| * new audio decoding API which decodes from an AVPacket to an AVFrame and |
| is able to use AVCodecContext.get_buffer() in the similar way as video decoding. |
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| * new audio encoding API which encodes from an AVFrame to an AVPacket, thus |
| allowing it to properly output timing information and side data. |
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| Please see the git history and the file doc/APIchanges for details. |
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| Other notable changes |
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| Libavcodec and libavformat built as shared libraries now hide non-public |
| symbols. This will break applications using those symbols. Possible solutions |
| are, in order of preference: |
| 1) Try finding a way of accomplishing the same with public API. |
| 2) If there is no corresponding public API, but you think there should be, |
| post a request on the developer mailing list or IRC channel. |
| 3) Finally if your program needs access to FFmpeg / libavcodec / libavformat |
| internals for some special reason then the best solution is to link statically. |
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| Please see the Changelog file and git history for a more detailed list of changes. |
