ffmpeg/doc/APIchanges
Ronald S. Bultje 2851d2253f Document addition of new avcodec_decode_video2/audio3/subtitle2() API and
the deprecation of the old API calls.

Originally committed as revision 18376 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
2009-04-08 12:37:29 +00:00

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Never assume the API of libav* to be stable unless at least 1 week has passed since
the last major version increase.
The last version increases were:
libavcodec: ?
libavdevice: ?
libavfilter: ?
libavformat: ?
libpostproc: ?
libswscale: ?
libavutil: 2009-03-08
API changes, most recent first:
2009-04-07 - r18351 - lavc 52.23.0 - avcodec_decode_video/audio/subtitle
The old decoding functions are deprecated, all new code should use the
new functions avcodec_decode_video2(), avcodec_decode_audio3() and
avcodec_decode_subtitle2(). These new functions take an AVPacket *pkt
argument instead of a const uint8_t *buf / int buf_size pair.
2009-04-03 - r18321 - lavu 50.3.0 - av_fifo_space
Introduce the av_fifo_space() function.
2009-04-02 - r18317 - lavc 52.23.0 - AVPacket
Move AVPacket declaration from libavformat/avformat.h to
libavcodec/avcodec.h.
2009-03-22 - r18163 - lavu 50.2.0 - RGB32 pixel formats
Make the pixel formats: PIX_FMT_ARGB, PIX_FMT_RGBA, PIX_FMT_ABGR,
PIX_FMT_BGRA, which were defined as macros, defined as enum
PixelFormat values, and viceversa make PIX_FMT_RGB32,
PIX_FMT_RGB32_1, PIX_FMT_BGR32, PIX_FMT_BGR32_1 defined as macros.
Also make avcodec_get_pix_fmt() recognize the "rgb32" and "bgr32"
aliases.
Re-sort the enum PixelFormat list accordingly.
This change breaks API/ABI backward compatibility.
2009-03-22 - r18133 - lavu 50.1.0 - PIX_FMT_RGB5X5 endian variants
Add the enum PixelFormat values:
PIX_FMT_RGB565BE, PIX_FMT_RGB565LE, PIX_FMT_RGB555BE, PIX_FMT_RGB555LE,
PIX_FMT_BGR565BE, PIX_FMT_BGR565LE, PIX_FMT_BGR555BE, PIX_FMT_BGR555LE.
2009-03-21 - r18116 - lavu 50.0.0 - av_random*
The Mersenne Twister PRNG implemented through the av_random* functions
was removed. Use the lagged Fibonacci PRNG through the av_lfg* functions
instead.
2009-03-08 - r17869 - lavu 50.0.0 - AVFifoBuffer
av_fifo_init, av_fifo_read, av_fifo_write and av_fifo_realloc were dropped
and replaced by av_fifo_alloc, av_fifo_generic_read, av_fifo_generic_write
and av_fifo_realloc2.
In addition, the order of the function arguments of av_fifo_generic_read
were changed to match av_fifo_generic_write.
The AVFifoBuffer/struct AVFifoBuffer may only be used in an opaque way by
applications, they may not use sizeof() or directly access members.
2009-03-01 - r17682 - lavf 52.31.0 - Generic metadata API
Introduce a new metadata API (see av_metadata_get() and friends).
The old API is now deprecated and should not be used anymore. This especially
includes the following structure fields:
- AVFormatContext.title
- AVFormatContext.author
- AVFormatContext.copyright
- AVFormatContext.comment
- AVFormatContext.album
- AVFormatContext.year
- AVFormatContext.track
- AVFormatContext.genre
- AVStream.language
- AVStream.filename
- AVProgram.provider_name
- AVProgram.name
- AVChapter.title