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| author | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2011-06-21 18:16:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2011-06-21 18:16:16 +0200 |
| commit | 0452f77f49e92bc67cc2aea5b9c4470cd457ca1d (patch) | |
| tree | 0fa64f4b48ee22376b283984329f0d654e7db2c1 /doc | |
| parent | e1674d7ef7e25d9c37b8f6a6fdac2bba93692fef (diff) | |
release_notes: some updates
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/RELEASE_NOTES | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES index 6564002621..4e4b0e630b 100644 --- a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs, including theora, huffyuv, VP8, H.263, mpeg4 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 0.8 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. +libraries except libpostproc have been bumped. This means that 0.8 can be installed +side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand applications need to be +recompiled to use 0.8. -Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to, +Other important changes are more than 200 bugfixes, known regressions were fixed +w.r.t 0.5 and 0.6, 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. @@ -34,16 +35,22 @@ API changes ----------- 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. +programmer-centric information. Note that some long-time deprecated APIs have +been removed. Also, a number of additional APIs have been deprecated and might +be removed in the next release. Other notable changes --------------------- +- high quality dithering in swscale to fix banding issues +- ffmpeg is now interactive and various information can be turned on/off while its running +- resolution changing support in ffmpeg +- sdl output device +- optimizations in libavfilter that make it much faster +- split, buffer, select, lut, negate filters amongth others +- more than 50 new video filters from mplayers libmpcodecs - 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 |