1Release Notes 2============= 3 4* 0.6 "Works with HTML5" June, 2010 5 6General notes 7------------- 8 9This release features a lot of improvements that are relevant for HTML5 video. 10The H.264 and Theora decoders are now significantly faster, the vorbis decoder 11has seen important updates and this release supports Google's newly released 12libvpx library for the VP8 codec and WEBM container. 13 14Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to, 15Intel Indeo 5, WMA Pro, WMA Voice and HE-AAC. 16 17See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. 18 19Please note that our policy on bug reports has not changed. We still only accept 20bug reports against HEAD of the FFmpeg trunk repository. If you are experiencing 21any issues with any formally released version of FFmpeg, please try a current 22version of the development code to check if the issue still exists. If it does, 23make your report against the development code following the usual bug reporting 24guidelines. 25 26 27API and other notable Changes 28----------------------------- 29 30Please see the file doc/APIchanges for programmer-centric information. 31 32Notable changes: 33- deprecated vhook subsystem removed 34- deprecated old scaler removed 35- nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed 36- RTMP support in libavformat 37- -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols 38- ffprobe tool 39- RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp 40- CODEC_CAP_EXPERIMENTAL added 41 42 43Added Codecs: 44------------- 45 46- VQF demuxer 47- PCX encoder 48- CorePNG decoding support 49- 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder 50- enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it 51- V210 decoder and encoder 52- QCP demuxer 53- SoX native format muxer and demuxer 54- AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries 55- DPX image decoder 56- Electronic Arts Madcow decoder 57- DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder 58- experimental AAC encoder 59- Wave64 demuxer 60- IEC-61937 compatible Muxer 61- TwinVQ decoder 62- Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder 63- LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks) 64- WMA Pro decoder 65- Core Audio Format demuxer 66- Atrac1 decoder 67- MD STUDIO audio demuxer 68- RF64 support in WAV demuxer 69- MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder 70- IV8 demuxer 71- CDG demuxer and decoder 72- R210 decoder 73- Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders 74- Deluxe Paint Animation playback system 75- SIPR decoder 76- Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer 77- RTP packetization and depacketization of H.263 and AMR 78- Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders 79- IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder 80- Indeo 5 decoder 81- WMA Voice decoder 82- AMR-NB decoder 83- RTSP muxer 84- HE-AAC v1 decoder 85- Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder 86- Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder 87- RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer 88- VP8 decoding via libvpx 89 90 91Notable license related changes 92------------------------------- 93 94- remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL 95- libswscale can now be compiled in LGPL mode 96- libvpx is considered (L)GPL incompatible 97