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│ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel" │
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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
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).
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│ 🔨 API Information │
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FFmpeg 2.4 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
Important API changes since 2.3:
• 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.
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│ ★ List of New Features │
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│ libavformat │
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• 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.
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│ libavfilter │
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• 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.
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│ libavutil │
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• Added clip() function in eval.
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│ ⚠ Behaviour changes │
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• 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