1Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
2releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
3
4version 0.6:
5
6- PB-frame decoding for H.263
7- deprecated vhook subsystem removed
8- deprecated old scaler removed
9- VQF demuxer
10- Alpha channel scaler
11- PCX encoder
12- RTP packetization of H.263
13- RTP packetization of AMR
14- RTP depacketization of Vorbis
15- CorePNG decoding support
16- Cook multichannel decoding support
17- introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
18- 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
19- per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
20- V210 decoder and encoder
21- remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
22- QCP demuxer
23- SoX native format muxer and demuxer
24- AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
25- DPX image decoder
26- Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
27- DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
28- nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
29- experimental AAC encoder
30- RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
31- RTMP support in libavformat
32- noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
33- Wave64 demuxer
34- IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
35- TwinVQ decoder
36- Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
37- LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
38- WMA Pro decoder
39- Core Audio Format demuxer
40- Atrac1 decoder
41- MD STUDIO audio demuxer
42- RF64 support in WAV demuxer
43- MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
44- -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
45- IV8 demuxer
46- CDG demuxer and decoder
47- R210 decoder
48- Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
49- Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
50- SIPR decoder
51- Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
52- RTP depacketization of H.263
53- Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
54- enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
55- IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
56- concat protocol
57- Indeo 5 decoder
58- RTP depacketization of AMR
59- WMA Voice decoder
60- ffprobe tool
61- AMR-NB decoder
62- RTSP muxer
63- HE-AAC v1 decoder
64- Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
65- VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
66- RTP depacketization of Theora
67- HTTP Digest authentication
68- RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
69- Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
70- spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
71- unsharp video filter
72- RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
73- Dirac in Ogg demuxing
74- seek to keyframes in Ogg
75- 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Theora decoding
76- 35% faster VP3/Theora decoding
77- faster AAC decoding
78- faster H.264 decoding
79- WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
80- low overhead Ogg muxing
81- VP8 de/encoding via libvpx
82- CODEC_CAP_EXPERIMENTAL added
83
84
85
86version 0.5:
87
88- DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
89- TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
90- IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
91- Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
92- Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
93- Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
94- Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
95- Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
96- H.261 video encoder
97- QPEG video decoder
98- Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
99- Shorten audio decoder
100- LOCO video decoder
101- Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
102- Winnov WNV1 video decoder
103- Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
104- Indeo 2 video decoder
105- Fraps FPS1 video decoder
106- Snow video encoder/decoder
107- Sonic audio encoder/decoder
108- Vorbis audio decoder
109- Macromedia ADPCM decoder
110- Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
111- support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
112- H.264 custom quantization matrices support
113- ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
114- QDM2 audio decoder
115- Real Cooker audio decoder
116- TrueSpeech audio decoder
117- WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
118- RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
119- JPEG-LS decoder
120- build system improvements
121- tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
122- CamStudio video decoder
123- AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
124- ADTS AAC file reading and writing
125- Creative VOC file reading and writing
126- American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
127- Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
128- improved Theora/VP3 decoder
129- True Audio (TTA) decoder
130- AVS demuxer and video decoder
131- JPEG-LS encoder
132- Smacker demuxer and decoder
133- NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
134- KMVC decoder
135- MPEG-2 intra VLC support
136- MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
137- Flash Screen Video decoder
138- GXF demuxer
139- Chinese AVS decoder
140- GXF muxer
141- MXF demuxer
142- VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
143- MacIntel support
144- AVISynth support
145- VMware video decoder
146- VP5 video decoder
147- VP6 video decoder
148- WavPack lossless audio decoder
149- Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
150- Vorbis audio encoder
151- Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
152- Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
153- MTV demuxer
154- TIFF picture encoder and decoder
155- GIF picture decoder
156- Intel Music Coder decoder
157- Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
158- Musepack decoder
159- Flash Screen Video encoder
160- Theora encoding via libtheora
161- BMP encoder
162- WMA encoder
163- GSM-MS encoder and decoder
164- DCA decoder
165- DXA demuxer and decoder
166- DNxHD decoder
167- Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
168- Blackfin optimizations
169- Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
170- Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
171- CRYO APC demuxer
172- Atrac3 decoder
173- V.Flash PTX decoder
174- RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
175- Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
176- extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
177- sws_flags command line option
178- codebook generator
179- RoQ video encoder
180- QTRLE encoder
181- OS/2 support removed and restored again
182- AC-3 decoder
183- NUT muxer
184- additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
185- Matroska muxer
186- slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
187- Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
188- AMV audio and video decoder
189- DNxHD encoder
190- H.264 PAFF decoding
191- Nellymoser ASAO decoder
192- Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
193- libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
194- IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
195- Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
196- The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
197- PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
198- Sun Rasterfile decoder
199- TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
200- Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
201- AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
202- QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
203- VFW grabber
204- iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
205- Mimic decoder
206- MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
207- RL2 demuxer / decoder
208- IFF demuxer
209- 8SVX audio decoder
210- non-recursive Makefiles
211- BFI demuxer
212- MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
213- BFI video decoder
214- OMA demuxer
215- MLP/TrueHD decoder
216- Electronic Arts CMV decoder
217- Motion Pixels Video decoder
218- Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
219- removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
220- D-Cinema audio muxer
221- Electronic Arts TGV decoder
222- Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
223- AAC decoder
224- floating point PCM encoder/decoder
225- MXF muxer
226- DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
227- E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
228- Nellymoser ASAO encoder
229- ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
230- liba52 wrapper removed
231- SVQ3 watermark decoding support
232- Speex decoding via libspeex
233- Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
234- RV40 decoder
235- QCELP / PureVoice decoder
236- RV30 decoder
237- hybrid WavPack support
238- R3D REDCODE demuxer
239- ALSA support for playback and record
240- Electronic Arts TQI decoder
241- OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
242- NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
243- Gopher client support
244- MXF D-10 muxer
245- generic metadata API
246
247
248
249version 0.4.9-pre1:
250
251- DV encoder, DV muxer
252- Microsoft RLE video decoder
253- Microsoft Video-1 decoder
254- Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
255- Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
256- Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
257- Cinepak decoder
258- Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
259- Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
260- Id Quake II CIN playback support
261- 8BPS video decoder
262- FLIC playback support
263- RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
264- Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
265- Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
266- MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
267- SVQ1 video encoder
268- AMR-WB support
269- PPC optimizations
270- rate distortion optimal cbp support
271- rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
272- rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
273- AAC encoding with libfaac
274- Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
275- use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
276- Theora/VP3 decoding support
277- XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
278- export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
279- Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
280- floating point AAN DCT
281- initial support for zygo video (not complete)
282- RGB ffv1 support
283- new audio/video parser API
284- av_log() system
285- av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
286- missing last frame fixes
287- seek by mouse in ffplay
288- noise reduction of DCT coefficients
289- H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
290- H.263 alternative inter vlc support
291- H.263 loop filter
292- H.263 slice structured mode
293- interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
294- stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
295- MB type & QP visualization
296- frame stepping for ffplay
297- interlaced motion estimation
298- alternate scantable support
299- SVCD scan offset support
300- closed GOP support
301- SSE2 FDCT
302- quantizer noise shaping
303- G.726 ADPCM audio codec
304- MS ADPCM encoding
305- multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
306- multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
307- multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
308- FLAC decoder
309- Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
310- H.263+ custom pcf support
311- nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
312- Matroska demuxer
313- SGI image format, encoding and decoding
314- H.264 loop filter support
315- H.264 CABAC support
316- nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
317- improved VCD support
318- audio timestamp drift compensation
319- MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
320- polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
321- better image scaling
322- H.261 support
323- correctly interleave packets during encoding
324- VIS optimized motion compensation
325- intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
326- support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
327- more accurate deblock filter
328- padding support
329- many optimizations and bugfixes
330- FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
331
332
333
334version 0.4.8:
335
336- MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
337- Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
338- Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
339  and Mario Brito)
340- Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
341- Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
342- Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
343
344
345
346version 0.4.7:
347
348- RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
349  (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
350- current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
351- 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
352  Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
353- Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
354- FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
355  than HuffYUV) (Michael)
356- ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
357- tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
358  alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
359- ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
360  for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
361- Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
362  by anonymous
363- AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
364- 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
365- VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
366- more MPEG-1/2 fixes
367- better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
368- AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
369- SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
370- new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
371- VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
372- better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
373- qpel encoding (Michael)
374- 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
375- chroma ME (Michael)
376- 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
377- B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
378- WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
379- user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
380- Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
381- ASV2 codec (Michael)
382- CLJR decoder (Alex)
383
384.. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
385
386
387
388version 0.4.6:
389
390- completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
391  from scratch
392- Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
393- fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
394- added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
395- added prototype ffplay program
396- added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
397- bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
398- bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
399- added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
400- now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
401- now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
402- preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
403- added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
404- now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
405- added first regression tests
406- added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
407- new demux API for libav
408- more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
409- faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
410- two pass video encoding (Michael)
411- new video rate control (Michael)
412- added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
413- great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
414- new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
415- high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
416- added DV video decoder
417- preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
418- H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
419- VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
420- PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
421- simple stats output (Juanjo)
422- 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
423
424
425
426version 0.4.5:
427
428- some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
429- many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
430- added configure system (actually a small shell script)
431- added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
432  Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
433  decoder)
434- fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
435- added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
436- added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
437- simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
438  pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
439- fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
440- fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
441- added support for MPlayer interface
442- added macroblock skip optimization
443- added MJPEG decoder
444- added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
445- added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
446  <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
447- added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
448- added deinterlacing option
449- MPEG-1/2 fixes
450- MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
451- ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
452- Windows porting of file converter
453- added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
454- added JPEG image format support (input/output)
455
456
457
458version 0.4.4:
459
460- fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
461  <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
462- added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
463- added ASF demuxer
464- added prototype RM demuxer
465- added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
466- added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
467  header does not include them)
468- fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
469  play them (only tested video)
470- fixed H.263 white bug
471- fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
472- add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
473- added CPU autodetection
474- added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
475  use them)
476- added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
477  decoder)
478- added fractional frame rate support
479- codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
480  segfault)
481
482
483
484version 0.4.3:
485
486- BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
487- fixed raw yuv output
488- added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
489- fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
490- added B-frame handling in video core
491- added full MPEG-1 decoding support
492- added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
493- changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
494  +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
495  this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
496- Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
497- added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
498- suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
499  output.
500- added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
501  <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
502  instead of a protocol)
503
504
505
506version 0.4.2:
507
508- added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
509  (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
510  missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
511- added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
512  can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
513- added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
514- fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
515  greenish)
516- added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
517  and image sizes non-multiple of 16
518- added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
519- added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
520- added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
521
522
523version 0.4.1:
524
525- added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
526  of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
527- added -me option to set motion estimation method
528  (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
529- added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
530  AVI for example)
531- fixed -an option
532- improved dct_quantize speed
533- factorized some motion estimation code
534
535
536
537version 0.4.0:
538
539- removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
540  multistream support to ffmpeg.
541- added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
542  URL)
543- added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
544  mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
545- added multi live feed support in ffserver
546- suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
547  external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
548  ffserver)
549- added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
550  done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
551  ffmpeg.
552- added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
553- redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
554  (see avio.h)
555- added WAV format support
556- added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
557- added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
558  (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
559- added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
560- added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
561- changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
562  codecs
563
564
565
566version 0.3.4:
567
568- added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
569
570
571
572version 0.3.3:
573
574- added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
575  real time at low resolution.
576- fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
577  bitrates and large GOP size
578
579
580
581version 0.3.2: small fixes
582
583- ASF fixes
584- put_seek bug fix
585
586
587
588version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
589
590- added AVI support
591- added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
592- added sound for flash format (not tested)
593
594
595
596version 0.3: initial public release
597