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@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs, |
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including theora, huffyuv, VP8, H.263, mpeg4 and H.264. Additionally, there has |
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been a major cleanup of |
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both internal and external APIs. For this reason, the major versions of all |
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libraries have been bumped. On the one hand, this means that 0.8 can be installed |
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side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand, in order to benefit |
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from the new features, applications need to be recompiled. |
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libraries except libpostproc have been bumped. This means that 0.8 can be installed |
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side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand applications need to be |
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recompiled to use 0.8. |
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Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to, |
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Other important changes are more than 200 bugfixes, known regressions were fixed |
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w.r.t 0.5 and 0.6, additions of decoders including, but not limited to, |
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AMR-WB, single stream LATM/LOAS, G.722 ADPCM, a native VP8 decoder |
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and HE-AACv2. Additionally, many new de/muxers such as WebM in Matroska, Apple |
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HTTP Live Streaming, SAP, IEC 61937 (S/PDIF) have been added. |
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@ -34,16 +35,22 @@ API changes |
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Please see git log of the public headers or the file doc/APIchanges for |
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programmer-centric information. Note that a |
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lot of long-time deprecated APIs have been removed. Also, a number of additional |
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APIs have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next release. |
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programmer-centric information. Note that some long-time deprecated APIs have |
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been removed. Also, a number of additional APIs have been deprecated and might |
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be removed in the next release. |
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Other notable changes |
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- high quality dithering in swscale to fix banding issues |
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- ffmpeg is now interactive and various information can be turned on/off while its running |
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- resolution changing support in ffmpeg |
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- sdl output device |
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- optimizations in libavfilter that make it much faster |
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- split, buffer, select, lut, negate filters amongth others |
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- more than 50 new video filters from mplayers libmpcodecs |
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- many ARM NEON optimizations |
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- libswscale cleanup started, optimizations should become easier in the future |
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- nonfree libfaad support for AAC decoding removed |
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- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding |
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- 9/10bit H.264 decoding |
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