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Release Notes
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* 0.9 "Harmony" December, 2011
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General notes
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This release is binary compatible with 0.8. The 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has
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been extended to also support the command line syntax and features of a tool
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called avconv.
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Additionally, this release introduces a number of new interesting codecs
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such as the Apple Prores, Flash Screen Video 2 and Windows Media Image,
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and muxers such as LATM or CELT in Ogg, among many others. Moreover, our
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H.264 decoder has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material and our libx264
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wrapper now allows to produce 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video.
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See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. Note, there
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are many more new features and bugfixes than whats listed there.
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Bugreports against FFmpeg git master or the most recent FFmpeg release are
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accepted. If you are experiencing issues with any formally released version of
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FFmpeg, please try git master to check if the issue still exists. If it does,
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make your report against the development code following the usual bug reporting
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guidelines.
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API changes
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A number of additional APIs have been introduced and some existing
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functions have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next
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release. Significant API changes include:
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* new audio decoding API which decodes from an AVPacket to an AVFrame and
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is able to use AVCodecContext.get_buffer() in the similar way as video decoding.
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* new audio encoding API which encodes from an AVFrame to an AVPacket, thus
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allowing it to properly output timing information and side data.
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* rewritten AVOptions API with better built-in support for private options.
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* private options support for demuxers [avformat_open_input()], muxers
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[avformat_write_header()], encoders and decoders [avcodec_open2()].
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As a result, many format- or codec-specific fields and flags in AVFormatContext
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and AVCodecContext were deprecated -- notably most of CODEC_FLAG2_* and many
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CODEC_FLAG_*.
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* new API for custom IO interrupt callbacks.
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* #include cleanup in libavutil -- libavutil/avutil.h no longer includes all
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the other headers in libavutil, they must be included manually. One specific
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result is that libavutil/mathematics.h is no longer included from
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libavcodec/avcodec.h, which is a common source of errors.
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Please see the file doc/APIchanges for details along with
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similar programmer-centric information.
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Other notable changes
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Libavcodec and libavformat built as shared libraries now hide non-public
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symbols. This will break applications using those symbols. Possible solutions
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are, in order of preference:
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1) Try finding a way of accomplishing the same with public API.
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2) If there is no corresponding public API, but you think there should be,
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post a request on the user mailing list or IRC channel.
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3) Finally if your program needs access to FFmpeg / libavcodec / libavformat
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internals for some special reason then the best solution is to link statically.
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Please see the Changelog file for a more detailed list of changes.
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