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
38 - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
39 - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
40 - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
41 - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
42 - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
43 - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
44 - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
45 - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
48 - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
49 - Shorten audio decoder
51 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
52 - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
53 - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
54 - Indeo 2 video decoder
55 - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
56 - Snow video encoder/decoder
57 - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
58 - Vorbis audio decoder
59 - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
60 - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
61 - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
62 - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
63 - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
65 - Real Cooker audio decoder
66 - TrueSpeech audio decoder
67 - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
68 - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
70 - build system improvements
71 - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
72 - CamStudio video decoder
73 - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
74 - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
75 - Creative VOC file reading and writing
76 - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
77 - Zip Motion Blocks Video decoder
78 - improved Theora/VP3 decoder
79 - True Audio (TTA) decoder
80 - AVS demuxer and video decoder
82 - Smacker demuxer and decoder
83 - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
85 - MPEG-2 intra VLC support
86 - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
87 - Flash Screen Video decoder
92 - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
95 - VMware video decoder
98 - WavPack lossless audio decoder
99 - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
100 - Vorbis audio encoder
101 - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
102 - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
104 - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
105 - GIF picture decoder
106 - Intel Music Coder decoder
107 - Zip Motion Blocks Video encoder
109 - Flash Screen Video encoder
110 - Theora encoding via libtheora
113 - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
115 - DXA demuxer and decoder
117 - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
118 - Blackfin optimizations
119 - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
120 - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
123 - V.Flash PTX decoder
124 - RoQ muxer, RoQ audio encoder
125 - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
126 - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
127 - sws_flags command line option
131 - OS/2 support removed and restored again
134 - additional SPARC (VIS) optimizations
136 - slice-based parallel H.264 decoding
137 - Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
138 - AMV audio and video decoder
140 - H.264 PAFF decoding
141 - Nellymoser ASAO decoder
142 - Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
143 - libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
144 - IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
145 - Ogg (Theora, Vorbis and FLAC) muxer
146 - The "device" muxers and demuxers are now in a new libavdevice library
147 - PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
148 - Sun Rasterfile decoder
149 - TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
150 - Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
151 - AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
152 - QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
154 - iPod/iPhone compatible mp4 muxer
156 - MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
157 - RL2 demuxer / decoder
160 - non-recursive Makefiles
162 - MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
166 - Electronic Arts CMV decoder
167 - Motion Pixels Video decoder
168 - Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
169 - removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
170 - D-Cinema audio muxer
171 - Electronic Arts TGV decoder
172 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
174 - floating point PCM encoder/decoder
176 - DV100 AKA DVCPRO HD decoder and demuxer
177 - E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
178 - Nellymoser ASAO encoder
179 - ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
180 - liba52 wrapper removed
181 - SVQ3 watermark decoding support
182 - Speex decoding via libspeex
183 - Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
185 - QCELP / PureVoice decoder
187 - hybrid WavPack support
188 - R3D REDCODE demuxer
189 - ALSA support for playback and record
190 - Electronic Arts TQI decoder
191 - OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
192 - NC (NC4600) camera file demuxer
193 - Gopher client support
195 - generic metadata API
201 - DV encoder, DV muxer
202 - Microsoft RLE video decoder
203 - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
204 - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
205 - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
206 - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
208 - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
209 - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
210 - Id Quake II CIN playback support
212 - FLIC playback support
213 - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
214 - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
215 - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
216 - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
220 - rate distortion optimal cbp support
221 - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
222 - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
223 - AAC encoding with libfaac
224 - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
225 - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
226 - Theora/VP3 decoding support
227 - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
228 - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
229 - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
230 - floating point AAN DCT
231 - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
233 - new audio/video parser API
235 - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
236 - missing last frame fixes
237 - seek by mouse in ffplay
238 - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
239 - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
240 - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
242 - H.263 slice structured mode
243 - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
244 - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
245 - MB type & QP visualization
246 - frame stepping for ffplay
247 - interlaced motion estimation
248 - alternate scantable support
249 - SVCD scan offset support
252 - quantizer noise shaping
253 - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
255 - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
256 - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
257 - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
259 - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
260 - H.263+ custom pcf support
261 - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
263 - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
264 - H.264 loop filter support
265 - H.264 CABAC support
266 - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector visualization
267 - improved VCD support
268 - audio timestamp drift compensation
269 - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
270 - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
271 - better image scaling
273 - correctly interleave packets during encoding
274 - VIS optimized motion compensation
275 - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
276 - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
277 - more accurate deblock filter
279 - many optimizations and bugfixes
280 - FunCom ISS audio file demuxer and according ADPCM decoding
286 - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
287 - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
288 - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
290 - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
291 - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
292 - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
298 - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
299 (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
300 - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
301 - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
302 Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
303 - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
304 - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
305 than HuffYUV) (Michael)
306 - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
307 - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
308 alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
309 - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
310 for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
311 - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
313 - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
314 - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
315 - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
316 - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
317 - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
318 - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
319 - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
320 - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
321 - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
322 - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
323 - qpel encoding (Michael)
324 - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
325 - chroma ME (Michael)
326 - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
327 - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
328 - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
329 - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
330 - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
331 - ASV2 codec (Michael)
332 - CLJR decoder (Alex)
334 .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
340 - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
342 - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
343 - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
344 - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
345 - added prototype ffplay program
346 - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
347 - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
348 - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
349 - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
350 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
351 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
352 - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
353 - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
354 - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
355 - added first regression tests
356 - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
357 - new demux API for libav
358 - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
359 - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
360 - two pass video encoding (Michael)
361 - new video rate control (Michael)
362 - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
363 - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
364 - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
365 - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
366 - added DV video decoder
367 - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
368 - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
369 - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
370 - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
371 - simple stats output (Juanjo)
372 - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
378 - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
379 - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
380 - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
381 - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
382 Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
384 - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
385 - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
386 - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
387 - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
388 pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
389 - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
390 - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
391 - added support for MPlayer interface
392 - added macroblock skip optimization
393 - added MJPEG decoder
394 - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
395 - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
396 <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
397 - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
398 - added deinterlacing option
400 - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
401 - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
402 - Windows porting of file converter
403 - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
404 - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
410 - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
411 <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
412 - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
414 - added prototype RM demuxer
415 - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
416 - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
417 header does not include them)
418 - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
419 play them (only tested video)
420 - fixed H.263 white bug
421 - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
422 - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
423 - added CPU autodetection
424 - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
426 - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
428 - added fractional frame rate support
429 - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
436 - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
437 - fixed raw yuv output
438 - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
439 - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
440 - added B-frame handling in video core
441 - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
442 - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
443 - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
444 +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
445 this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
446 - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
447 - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
448 - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
450 - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
451 <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
452 instead of a protocol)
458 - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
459 (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
460 missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
461 - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
462 can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
463 - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
464 - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
466 - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
467 and image sizes non-multiple of 16
468 - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
469 - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
470 - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
475 - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
476 of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
477 - added -me option to set motion estimation method
478 (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
479 - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
482 - improved dct_quantize speed
483 - factorized some motion estimation code
489 - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
490 multistream support to ffmpeg.
491 - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
493 - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
494 mmx/see optimization). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
495 - added multi live feed support in ffserver
496 - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
497 external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
499 - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
500 done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
502 - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
503 - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
505 - added WAV format support
506 - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
507 - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
508 (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
509 - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
510 - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
511 - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
518 - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
524 - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
525 real time at low resolution.
526 - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
527 bitrates and large GOP size
531 version 0.3.2: small fixes
538 version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
541 - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
542 - added sound for flash format (not tested)
546 version 0.3: initial public release