From dac9e509020784e8f8c5c332bdbbce7001719400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Niedermayer Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 21:55:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] RELEASE_NOTES: update for 2.5 If you spot something missing wrong or improvable, do not hesitate to push fixes Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer --- RELEASE_NOTES | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES index 5499cfd54d..a1ddd35dbf 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,17 +1,11 @@ ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ - │ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel" │ + │ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr" │ └────────────────────────────────────────┘ - The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", just 2 months - after the release of 2.3. Since this wasn't a long time ago, the Changelog + The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr", just 2.5 months + after the release of 2.4. Since this wasn't a long time ago, the Changelog is a bit short this time. - The most important thing in this release is the major version bump of the - libraries. This means that this release is neither ABI-compatible nor - fully API-compatible. But on the other hand it is aligned with the Libav - 11 release series, and will as a result probably end up being maintained for - a long time. - As usual, if you have any question on this release or any FFmpeg related topic, feel free to join us on the #ffmpeg IRC channel (on irc.freenode.net). @@ -20,24 +14,21 @@ │ 🔨 API Information │ └────────────────────────────┘ - FFmpeg 2.4 includes the following library versions: + FFmpeg 2.5 includes the following library versions: - • libavutil 54.7.100 - • libavcodec 56.1.100 - • libavformat 56.4.101 - • libavdevice 56.0.100 - • libavfilter 5.1.100 - • libswscale 3.0.100 - • libswresample 1.1.100 - • libpostproc 53.0.100 + • libavutil 54.15.100 + • libavcodec 56.13.100 + • libavformat 56.15.102 + • libavdevice 56. 3.100 + • libavfilter 5. 2.103 + • libswscale 3. 1.101 + • libswresample 1. 1.100 + • libpostproc 53. 3.100 - Important API changes since 2.3: + Important API changes since 2.4: + + • avpriv_dv_frame_profile2() has been deprecated - • The new field mime_type was added to AVProbeData, which can - cause crashes, if it is not initialized. - • Some deprecated functions were removed. - • The avfilter_graph_parse function was made compatible with Libav. - • The Matroska demuxer now outputs verbatim ASS packets. Please refer to the doc/APIchanges file for more information. @@ -45,37 +36,64 @@ │ ★ List of New Features │ └────────────────────────────┘ + ┌────────────────────────────┐ + │ ffprobe │ + └────────────────────────────┘ + + • -show_pixel_formats option + + ┌────────────────────────────┐ + │ ffserver │ + └────────────────────────────┘ + + • codec private options support + + ┌────────────────────────────┐ + │ libavcodec │ + └────────────────────────────┘ + + • STL subtitle decoder + • libutvideo YUV 4:2:2 10bit support + • animated WebP decoding support + • zygoaudio decoding support + + ┌────────────────────────────┐ + │ libavdevice │ + └────────────────────────────┘ + + • XCB-based screen-grabber + • AVFoundation screen capturing support + ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ libavformat │ └────────────────────────────┘ - • Icecast protocol. - • API for live metadata updates through event flags. - • UTF-16 support in text subtitles formats. - • The ASS muxer now reorders the Dialogue events properly. + • HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) packetizer + • SUP/PGS subtitle demuxer + • STL subtitle demuxer + • UDP-Lite support (RFC 3828) + • creating DASH compatible fragmented MP4, MPEG-DASH segmenting muxer + • WebP muxer + • APNG demuxer ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ libavfilter │ └────────────────────────────┘ - • Ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter. - • Large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable. - • Added codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs. - • Added silenceremove filter. + • xBR scaling filter ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ libavutil │ └────────────────────────────┘ - • Added clip() function in eval. + • CAST128 symmetric block cipher, ECB mode + + ┌────────────────────────────┐ + │ libpostproc │ + └────────────────────────────┘ + + • visualization support ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ ⚠ Behaviour changes │ └────────────────────────────┘ - - • dctdnoiz filter now uses a block size of 8x8 instead of 16x16 by default - • -vismv option is deprecated in favor of the codecview filter - • libmodplug is now detected through pkg-config - • HTML documentation generation through texi2html is deprecated in - favor of makeinfo/texi2any - • ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol