| Release Notes |
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| * 0.6 "Works with HTML5" June, 2010 |
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| 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 for the VP8 codec and WEBM container. |
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| Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to, |
| Intel Indeo 5, WMA Pro, WMA Voice and HE-AAC. |
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| See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. |
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| 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. |
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| API and other notable Changes |
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| Please see the file doc/APIchanges for programmer-centric information. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |