1 Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
2 releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
7 - PB-frame decoding for H.263
8 - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
9 - deprecated old scaler removed
11 - Alpha channel scaler
13 - RTP packetization of H.263
14 - RTP packetization of AMR
15 - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
16 - CorePNG decoding support
17 - Cook multichannel decoding support
18 - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
19 - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
20 - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
21 - V210 decoder and encoder
22 - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
24 - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
25 - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
27 - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
28 - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
29 - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
30 - Experimental AAC encoder
31 - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
32 - RTMP support in libavformat
33 - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
35 - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
37 - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
38 - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
40 - Core Audio Format demuxer
42 - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
43 - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
49 - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
50 - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
51 - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
52 - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
53 - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
54 - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
55 - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
56 - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
59 - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
60 - Shorten audio decoder
62 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
63 - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
64 - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
65 - Indeo 2 video decoder
66 - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
67 - Snow video encoder/decoder
68 - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
69 - Vorbis audio decoder
70 - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
71 - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
72 - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
73 - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
74 - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
76 - Real Cooker audio decoder
77 - TrueSpeech audio decoder
78 - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
79 - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
81 - build system improvements
82 - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
83 - CamStudio video decoder
84 - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
85 - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
86 - Creative VOC file reading and writing
87 - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
88 - Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
89 - improved Theora/VP3 decoder
90 - True Audio (TTA) decoder
91 - AVS demuxer and video decoder
93 - Smacker demuxer and decoder
94 - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
96 - MPEG-2 intra VLC support
97 - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
98 - Flash Screen Video decoder
100 - Chinese AVS decoder
103 - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
106 - VMware video decoder
109 - WavPack lossless audio decoder
110 - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
111 - Vorbis audio encoder
112 - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
113 - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
115 - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
116 - GIF picture decoder
117 - Intel Music Coder decoder
118 - Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
120 - Flash Screen Video encoder
121 - Theora encoding via libtheora
124 - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
126 - DXA demuxer and decoder
128 - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
129 - Blackfin optimizations
130 - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
131 - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
134 - V.Flash PTX decoder
135 - RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
136 - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
137 - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
138 - sws_flags command line option
142 - OS/2 support removed and restored again
145 - additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
147 - slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
148 - Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
149 - AMV audio and video decoder
151 - H.264 PAFF decoding
152 - Nellymoser ASAO decoder
153 - Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
154 - libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
155 - IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
156 - Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
157 - The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
158 - PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
159 - Sun Rasterfile decoder
160 - TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
161 - Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
162 - AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
163 - QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
165 - iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
167 - MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
168 - RL2 demuxer / decoder
171 - non-recursive Makefiles
173 - MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
177 - Electronic Arts CMV decoder
178 - Motion Pixels Video decoder
179 - Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
180 - removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
181 - D-Cinema audio muxer
182 - Electronic Arts TGV decoder
183 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
185 - floating point PCM encoder/decoder
187 - DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
188 - E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
189 - Nellymoser ASAO encoder
190 - ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
191 - liba52 wrapper removed
192 - SVQ3 watermark decoding support
193 - Speex decoding via libspeex
194 - Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
196 - QCELP / PureVoice decoder
198 - hybrid WavPack support
199 - R3D REDCODE demuxer
200 - ALSA support for playback and record
201 - Electronic Arts TQI decoder
202 - OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
203 - NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
204 - Gopher client support
206 - generic metadata API
212 - DV encoder, DV muxer
213 - Microsoft RLE video decoder
214 - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
215 - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
216 - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
217 - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
219 - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
220 - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
221 - Id Quake II CIN playback support
223 - FLIC playback support
224 - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
225 - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
226 - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
227 - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
231 - rate distortion optimal cbp support
232 - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
233 - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
234 - AAC encoding with libfaac
235 - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
236 - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
237 - Theora/VP3 decoding support
238 - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
239 - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
240 - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
241 - floating point AAN DCT
242 - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
244 - new audio/video parser API
246 - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
247 - missing last frame fixes
248 - seek by mouse in ffplay
249 - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
250 - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
251 - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
253 - H.263 slice structured mode
254 - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
255 - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
256 - MB type & QP visualization
257 - frame stepping for ffplay
258 - interlaced motion estimation
259 - alternate scantable support
260 - SVCD scan offset support
263 - quantizer noise shaping
264 - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
266 - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
267 - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
268 - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
270 - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
271 - H.263+ custom pcf support
272 - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
274 - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
275 - H.264 loop filter support
276 - H.264 CABAC support
277 - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
278 - improved VCD support
279 - audio timestamp drift compensation
280 - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
281 - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
282 - better image scaling
284 - correctly interleave packets during encoding
285 - VIS optimized motion compensation
286 - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
287 - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
288 - more accurate deblock filter
290 - many optimizations and bugfixes
291 - FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
297 - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
298 - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
299 - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
301 - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
302 - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
303 - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
309 - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
310 (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
311 - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
312 - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
313 Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
314 - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
315 - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
316 than HuffYUV) (Michael)
317 - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
318 - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
319 alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
320 - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
321 for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
322 - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
324 - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
325 - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
326 - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
327 - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
328 - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
329 - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
330 - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
331 - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
332 - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
333 - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
334 - qpel encoding (Michael)
335 - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
336 - chroma ME (Michael)
337 - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
338 - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
339 - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
340 - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
341 - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
342 - ASV2 codec (Michael)
343 - CLJR decoder (Alex)
345 .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
351 - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
353 - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
354 - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
355 - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
356 - added prototype ffplay program
357 - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
358 - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
359 - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
360 - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
361 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
362 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
363 - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
364 - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
365 - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
366 - added first regression tests
367 - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
368 - new demux API for libav
369 - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
370 - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
371 - two pass video encoding (Michael)
372 - new video rate control (Michael)
373 - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
374 - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
375 - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
376 - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
377 - added DV video decoder
378 - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
379 - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
380 - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
381 - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
382 - simple stats output (Juanjo)
383 - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
389 - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
390 - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
391 - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
392 - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
393 Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
395 - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
396 - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
397 - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
398 - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
399 pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
400 - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
401 - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
402 - added support for MPlayer interface
403 - added macroblock skip optimization
404 - added MJPEG decoder
405 - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
406 - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
407 <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
408 - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
409 - added deinterlacing option
411 - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
412 - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
413 - Windows porting of file converter
414 - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
415 - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
421 - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
422 <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
423 - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
425 - added prototype RM demuxer
426 - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
427 - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
428 header does not include them)
429 - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
430 play them (only tested video)
431 - fixed H.263 white bug
432 - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
433 - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
434 - added CPU autodetection
435 - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
437 - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
439 - added fractional frame rate support
440 - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
447 - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
448 - fixed raw yuv output
449 - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
450 - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
451 - added B-frame handling in video core
452 - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
453 - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
454 - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
455 +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
456 this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
457 - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
458 - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
459 - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
461 - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
462 <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
463 instead of a protocol)
469 - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
470 (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
471 missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
472 - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
473 can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
474 - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
475 - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
477 - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
478 and image sizes non-multiple of 16
479 - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
480 - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
481 - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
486 - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
487 of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
488 - added -me option to set motion estimation method
489 (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
490 - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
493 - improved dct_quantize speed
494 - factorized some motion estimation code
500 - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
501 multistream support to ffmpeg.
502 - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
504 - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
505 mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
506 - added multi live feed support in ffserver
507 - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
508 external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
510 - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
511 done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
513 - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
514 - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
516 - added WAV format support
517 - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
518 - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
519 (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
520 - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
521 - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
522 - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
529 - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
535 - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
536 real time at low resolution.
537 - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
538 bitrates and large GOP size
542 version 0.3.2: small fixes
549 version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
552 - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
553 - added sound for flash format (not tested)
557 version 0.3: initial public release