ffmpeg/doc/RELEASE_NOTES

Release Notes
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* 0.8 "Love"  June, 2011
* 0.7 "Peace" June, 2011 (identical to 0.8 but using 0.6 ABI/API)


General notes
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This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs,
including VP8, H.263 and H.264. Additionally, there has been a major cleanup of
both internal and external APIs. For this reason, the major versions of all
libraries have been bumped. On the one hand, this means that 0.7 can be installed
side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand, in order to benefit
from the new features, applications need to be recompiled.

Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to,
AMR-WB, single stream LATM/LOAS, G.722 ADPCM, a native VP8 decoder
and HE-AACv2. Additionally, many new de/muxers such as WebM in Matroska, Apple
HTTP Live Streaming, SAP, IEC 61937 (S/PDIF) have been added.

See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes.

Bugreports against FFmpeg git master or the most recent FFmpeg release are
accepted. If you are experiencing issues with any formally released version of
FFmpeg, please try git master to check if the issue still exists. If it does,
make your report against the development code following the usual bug reporting
guidelines.


API changes
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Please see git log of the public headers or the file doc/APIchanges for
programmer-centric information. Note that a
lot of long-time deprecated APIs have been removed. Also, a number of additional
APIs have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next release.


Other notable changes
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- many ARM NEON optimizations
- libswscale cleanup started, optimizations should become easier in the future
- nonfree libfaad support for AAC decoding removed
- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding
- 9/10bit H.264 decoding
- Win64 Assembler support
- native MMSH/MMST support
- Windows TV demuxing
- native AMR-WB decoding
- native GSM-MS decoding
- SMPTE 302M decoding
- AVS encoding