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111  <h3 id="ampere2026">June 24th, 2026, Ampere Server Donation</h3>
112  <p>
113  Ampere has generously donated a server to FFmpeg: an AmpereOne&reg; (Mt. Mitchell)
114  2U system with 192 Arm cores, 512&nbsp;GB of RAM, 24 NVMe bays and 2&times;25G
115  networking, weighing in at 28&nbsp;kg. Thank you, Ampere!
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126  To celebrate, Dascha (daschasara) answered FFmpeg's call for non-AI artwork and
127  drew this piece for us:
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129  <img src="img/dascha-ffmpeg-ampere.png" alt="Artwork by Dascha: the FFmpeg logo o
129pening a gift box containing an Ampere server" style="display: block; margin: 1em auto; width: 100%; max-width: 500px;" />
130  <p style="text-align: center;">
131  <small>Artwork by Dascha (daschasara)</small>
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133
134  <h3 id="pr8.1">March 16th, 2026, FFmpeg 8.1 <span title="Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare">"Hoare"</span></h3>
135  <p>
136  A new minor release, <a href="download.html#release_8.1">FFmpeg 8.1 <span title="Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare">"Hoare"</span></a>,
137  is now available for download. Here are some of the highlights:
138  <ul>
139    <li>Decoders: xHE-AAC Mps212 (experimental) MPEG-H decoding via libmpeghdec</li>
140    <li>EXIF Metadata Parsing</li>
141    <li>LCEVC: support for parsing and forwarding metadata</li>
142    <li>Vulkan compute-based codecs: ProRes encoding and decoding, DPX decoding</li>
143    <li>D3D12: D3D12 H.264/AV1 encoding, scale_d3d12, mestimate_d3d12, deinterlace_d3d12 filters</li>
144    <li>Rockchip H.264/HEVC hardware encoding</li>
145    <li>IAMF: Projection mode Ambisonic Audio Elements muxing and demuxing</li>
146    <li>Formats: hxvs demuxer</li>
147    <li>Filters: drawvg, vpp_amf</li>
148  </ul>
149  </p>
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151  <p>
152  This release features a lot of internal changes and bugfixes. The groundwork for the upcoming swscale rewrite is progressing.
153  The Vulkan compute-based codecs, and a few filters, no longer depend on runtime GLSL compilation, which speeds up their initialization.
154  </p>
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156  <p>
157  A companion post about the Vulkan Compute-based codec implementations has been published on the
158  <a href="https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute-shaders-in-ffmpeg">Khronos blog</a>,
159  featuring technical details on the implementations and future plans.
160  </p>
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162  <p>
163    We recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.
164  </p>
165
166  <h3 id="pr8.0">August 22nd, 2025, FFmpeg 8.0 <span title="David A. Huffman">"Huffman"</span></h3>
167  <p>
168  A new major release, <a href="download.html#release_8.0">FFmpeg 8.0 <span title="David A. Huffman">"Huffman"</span></a>,
169  is now available for download.
170  Thanks to several delays, and modernization of our entire infrastructure, this release ended up
171  being one of our largest releases to date. In short, its new features are:
172  <ul>
173    <li>Native decoders: <span title="Advanced Professional Video">APV</span>, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, G.728</li>
174    <li>VVC decoder improvements: <span title="Intra Block Copy">IBC</span>,
175                                  <span title="Adaptive Color Transform">ACT</span>,
176                                  Palette Mode</li>
177    <li>Vulkan compute-based codecs: FFv1 (encode and decode), ProRes RAW (decode only)</li>
178    <li>Hardware accelerated decoding: Vulkan VP9, VAAPI VVC, OpenHarmony H264/5</li>
179    <li>Hardware accelerated encoding: Vulkan AV1, OpenHarmony H264/5</li>
180    <li>Formats: MCC, G.728, Whip, APV</li>
181    <li>Filters: colordetect, pad_cuda, scale_d3d11, Whisper, and others</li>
182  </ul>
183  </p>
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185  <p>
186  A new class of decoders and encoders based on pure Vulkan compute implementation have been added.
187  Vulkan is a cross-platform, open standard set of APIs that allows programs to use GPU hardware in various ways,
188  from drawing on screen, to doing calculations, to decoding video via custom hardware accelerators.
189  Rather than using a custom hardware accelerator present, these codecs are based on compute shaders, and work
190  on any implementation of Vulkan 1.3.<br>
191  Decoders use the same hwaccel API and commands, so users do not need to do anything special to enable them,
192  as enabling <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro#Vulkan">Vulkan decoding</a> is sufficient to use them.<br>
193  Encoders, like our hardware accelerated encoders, require specifying a new encoder (ffv1_vulkan).
194  Currently, the only codecs supported are: FFv1 (encoding and decoding) and ProRes RAW (decode only).
195  ProRes (encode+decode) and VC-2 (encode+decode) implementations are complete and currently in review,
196  to be merged soon and available with the next minor release.<br>
197  Only codecs specifically designed for parallelized decoding can be implemented in such a way, with
198  more mainstream codecs not being planned for support.<br>
199  Depending on the hardware, these new codecs can provide very significant speedups, and open up
200  possibilities to work with them for situations like non-linear video editors and
201  lossless screen recording/streaming, so we are excited to learn what our downstream users can make with them.
202  </p>
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204  <p>
205  The project has recently started to modernize its infrastructure. Our mailing list servers have been
206  fully upgraded, and we have recently started to accept contributions via a new forge, available on
207  <a href="https://code.ffmpeg.org/">code.ffmpeg.org</a>, running a Forgejo instance.
208  </p>
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210  <p>
211    As usual, we recommend that users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.
212  </p>
213
214  <h3 id="pr7.1">September 30th, 2024, FFmpeg 7.1 <span title="Rózsa Péter">"Péter"</span></h3>
215  <p>
216    <a href="download.html#release_7.1">FFmpeg 7.1 "Péter"</a>, a new
217    major release, is now available! A full list of changes can be found in the release
218    <a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/7.1:/Changelog">changelog</a>.
219  </p>
220  <p>
221    The more important highlights of the release are that the VVC decoder, merged as experimental in version 7.0,
222    has had enough time to mature and be optimized enough to be declared as stable. The codec is starting to gain
223    traction with broadcast standardization bodies.<br>
224    Support has been added for a native AAC USAC (part of the xHE-AAC coding system) decoder, with the format starting
225    to be adopted by streaming websites, due to its extensive volume normalization metadata.<br>
226    MV-HEVC decoding is now supported. This is a stereoscopic coding tool that begun to be shipped and generated
227    by recent phones and VR headsets.<br>
228    LC-EVC decoding, an enhancement metadata layer to attempt to improve the quality of codecs, is now supported via an
229    external library.<br>
230  </p>
231  <p>
232    Support for Vulkan encoding, with H264 and HEVC was merged. This finally allows fully Vulkan-based decode-filter-encode
233    pipelines, by having a sink for Vulkan frames, other than downloading or displaying them. The encoders have feature-parity
234    with their VAAPI implementation counterparts. Khronos has announced that support for AV1 encoding is also coming soon to Vulkan,
235    and FFmpeg is aiming to have day-one support.
236  </p>
237  <p>
238    In addition to the above, this release has had a lot of important internal work done. By far, the standout internally
239    are the improvements made for full-range images. Previously, color range data had two paths, no negotiation,
240    and was unreliably forwarded to filters, encoders, muxers. Work on cleaning the system up started more than 10
241    years ago, however this stalled due to how fragile the system was, and that breaking behaviour would be unacceptable.
242    The new system fixes this, so now color range is forwarded correctly and consistently everywhere needed, and also
243    laid the path for more advanced forms of negotiation.<br>
244    Cropping metadata is now supported with Matroska and MP4 formats. This metadata is important not only for archival,
245    but also with AV1, as hardware encoders require its signalling due to the codec not natively supporting one.
246  </p>
247  <p>
248    As usual, we recommend that users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.
249  </p>
250
251  <h3 id="coverity">September 11th, 2024, Coverity</h3>
252  <p>
253  The number of issues FFmpeg has in <a href="https://scan.coverity.com/projects/ffmpeg">Coverity (a static analyzer)</a> is now lower than it has been since 2016.
254  Our defect density is less than one 30th of the average in OSS with over a million code
255  lines. All this was possible thanks to a grant from the <a href="https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/">Sovereign Tech Fund</a>.
256  </p>
257  <img src="img/coverity-lifetime-2024-08.PNG" alt="Coverity Lifetime Graph till 2024-08" style="width: 80%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" />
258
259  <h3 id="xheaac">June 2nd, 2024, native xHE-AAC decoder</h3>
260  <p>
261  FFmpeg now implements a native xHE-AAC decoder. Currently, streams without (e)SBR, USAC or MPEG-H Surround
262  are supported, which means the majority of xHE-AAC streams in use should work. Support for USAC and (e)SBR is
263  coming soon. Work is also ongoing to improve its stability and compatibility.
264  During the process we found several specification issues, which were then submitted back to the authors
265  for discussion and potential inclusion in a future errata.
266  </p>
267
268  <h3 id="stf24">May 13th, 2024, Sovereign Tech Fund</h3>
269  <p>
270  The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany's
271  <a href="https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/ffmpeg">Sovereign Tech Fund</a>
272  has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help
273  sustain the maintainance of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source
274  software multimedia component essential to bringing audio and video to
275  billions around the world everyday.
276  </p>
277
278  <h3 id="pr7.0">April 5th, 2024, FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra"</h3>
279  <p>
280  A new major release, <a href="download.html#release_7.0">FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra"</a>,
281  is now available for download. The most noteworthy changes for most users are
282  a <a href="#vvcdec">native VVC decoder</a> (currently experimental, until more
283  fuzzing is done), <a href="#iamf">IAMF support</a>, or a
284  <a href="#cli_threading">multi-threaded <code>ffmpeg</code> CLI tool</a>.
285  </p>
286
287  <p>
288  This release is <em>not</em> backwards compatible, removing APIs deprecated before 6.0.
289  The biggest change for most library callers will be the removal of the old bitmask-based
290  channel layout API, replaced by the <code>AVChannelLayout</code> API allowing such
291  features as custom channel ordering, or Ambisonics. Certain deprecated <code>ffmpeg</code>
292  CLI options were also removed, and a C11-compliant compiler is now required to build
293  the code.
294  </p>
295
296  <p>
297  As usual, there is also a number of new supported formats and codecs, new filters, APIs,
298  and countless smaller features and bugfixes. Compared to 6.1, the <code>git</code> repository
299  contains almost &sim;2000 new commits by &sim;100 authors, touching &gt;100000 lines in
300  &sim;2000 files &mdash; thanks to everyone who contributed. See the
301  <a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=Changelog;hb=n7.0">Changelog</a>,
302  <a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/APIchanges;hb=n7.0">APIchanges</a>,
303  and the git log for more comprehensive lists of changes.
304  </p>
305
306  <h3 id="vvcdec">January 3rd, 2024, native VVC decoder</h3>
307  <p>
308  The <code>libavcodec</code> library now contains a native VVC (Versatile Video Coding)
309  decoder, supporting a large subset of the codec's features. Further optimizations and
310  support for more features are coming soon. The code was written by Nuo Mi, Xu Mu,
311  Frank Plowman, Shaun Loo, and Wu Jianhua.
312  </p>
313
314  <h3 id="iamf">December 18th, 2023, IAMF support</h3>
315  <p>
316  The <code>libavformat</code> library can now read and write <a href="https://aomediacodec.github.io/iamf/">IAMF</a>
317  (Immersive Audio) files. The <code>ffmpeg</code> CLI tool can configure IAMF structure with the new
318  <code>-stream_group</code> option. IAMF support was written by James Almer.
319  </p>
320
321  <h3 id="cli_threading">December 12th, 2023, multi-threaded <code>ffmpeg</code> CLI tool</h3>
322  <p>
323  Thanks to a major refactoring of the <code>ffmpeg</code> command-line tool, all the major
324  components of the transcoding pipeline (demuxers, decoders, filters, encodes, muxers) now
325  run in parallel. This should improve throughput and CPU utilization, decrease latency,
326  and open the way to other exciting new features.
327  </p>
328
329  <p>
330  Note that you should <em>not</em> expect significant performance improvements in cases
331  where almost all computational time is spent in a single component (typically video
332  encoding).
333  </p>
334
335  <h3 id="pr6.1">November 10th, 2023, FFmpeg 6.1 "Heaviside"</h3>
336  <p>
337    <a href="download.html#release_6.1">FFmpeg 6.1 "Heaviside"</a>, a new
338    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
339  </p>
340  <ul>
341    <li>libaribcaption decoder</li>
342    <li>Playdate video decoder and demuxer</li>
343    <li>Extend VAAPI support for libva-win32 on Windows</li>
344    <li>afireqsrc audio source filter</li>
345    <li>arls filter</li>
346    <li>ffmpeg CLI new option: -readrate_initial_burst</li>
347    <li>zoneplate video source filter</li>
348    <li>command support in the setpts and asetpts filters</li>
349    <li>Vulkan decode hwaccel, supporting H264, HEVC and AV1</li>
350    <li>color_vulkan filter</li>
351    <li>bwdif_vulkan filter</li>
352    <li>nlmeans_vulkan filter</li>
353    <li>RivaTuner video decoder</li>
354    <li>xfade_vulkan filter</li>
355    <li>vMix video decoder</li>
356    <li>Essential Video Coding parser, muxer and demuxer</li>
357    <li>Essential Video Coding frame merge bsf</li>
358    <li>bwdif_cuda filter</li>
359    <li>Microsoft RLE video encoder</li>
360    <li>Raw AC-4 muxer and demuxer</li>
361    <li>Raw VVC bitstream parser, muxer and demuxer</li>
362    <li>Bitstream filter for editing metadata in VVC streams</li>
363    <li>Bitstream filter for converting VVC from MP4 to Annex B</li>
364    <li>scale_vt filter for videotoolbox</li>
365    <li>transpose_vt filter for videotoolbox</li>
366    <li>support for the P_SKIP hinting to speed up libx264 encoding</li>
367    <li>Support HEVC,VP9,AV1 codec in enhanced flv format</li>
368    <li>apsnr and asisdr audio filters</li>
369    <li>OSQ demuxer and decoder</li>
370    <li>Support HEVC,VP9,AV1 codec fourcclist in enhanced rtmp protocol</li>
371    <li>
371CRI USM demuxer</li>
372    <li>ffmpeg CLI '-top' option deprecated in favor of the setfield filter</li>
373    <li>VAAPI AV1 encoder</li>
374    <li>ffprobe XML output schema changed to account for multiple variable-fields elements within the same parent element</li>
375    <li>ffprobe -output_format option added as an alias of -of</li>
376  </ul>
377  <p>
378    This release had been overdue for at least half a year, but due to constant activity in the repository,
379    had to be delayed, and we were finally able to branch off the release recently, before some of the large
380    changes scheduled for 7.0 were merged.
381  </p>
382  <p>
383    Internally, we have had a number of changes too. The FFT, MDCT, DCT and DST implementation used for codecs
384    and filters has been fully replaced with the faster libavutil/tx (full article about it coming soon).<br>
385    This also led to a reduction in the the size of the compiled binary, which can be noticeable in small builds.<br>
386    There was a very large reduction in the total amount of allocations being done on each frame throughout video decoders,
387    reducing overhead.<br>
388    RISC-V optimizations for many parts of our DSP code have been merged, with mainly the large decoders being left.<br>
389    There was an effort to improve the correctness of timestamps and frame durations of each packet, increasing the
390    accurracy of variable frame rate video.
391  </p>
392  <p>
393    Next major release will be version 7.0, scheduled to be released in February. We will attempt to better stick
394    to the new release schedule we announced at the start of this year.
395  </p>
396  <p>
397    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.
398  </p>
399
400  <h3 id="vk2023">May 31st, 2023, Vulkan decoding</h3>
401  <p>
402    A few days ago, Vulkan-powered decoding hardware acceleration code was merged into the codebase.
403    This is the first vendor-generic and platform-generic decode acceleration API, enabling the
404    same code to be used on multiple platforms, with very minimal overhead.
405    This is also the first multi-threaded hardware decoding API, and our code makes full use of this,
406    saturating all available decode engines the hardware exposes.
407  </p>
408  <p>
409    Those wishing to test the code can read our
410    <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro#Vulkan">documentation page</a>.
411    For those who would like to integrate FFmpeg's Vulkan code to demux, parse, decode, and receive
412    a VkImage to present or manipulate, documentation and examples are available in our source tree.
413    Currently, using the latest available git checkout of our
414    <a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb?p=ffmpeg.git;a=summary">repository</a> is required.
415    The functionality will be included in stable branches with the release of version 6.1, due
416    to be released soon.
417  </p>
418  <p>
419    As this is also the first practical implementation of the specifications, bugs may be present,
420    particularly in drivers, and, although passing verification, the implementation itself.
421    New codecs, and encoding support are also being worked on, by both the Khronos organization
422    for standardizing, and us as implementing it, and giving feedback on improving.
423  </p>
424
425  <h3 id="pr6.0">February 28th, 2023, FFmpeg 6.0 "Von Neumann"</h3>
426  <p>
427    A new major release, <a href="download.html#release_6.0">FFmpeg 6.0 "Von Neumann"</a>,
428    is now available for download. This release has many new encoders and decoders, filters,
429    ffmpeg CLI tool improvements, and also, changes the way releases are done. All major
430    releases will now bump the version of the ABI. We plan to have a new major release each
431    year. Another release-specific change is that deprecated APIs will be removed after 3
432    releases, upon the next major bump.
433    This means that releases will be done more often and will be more organized.
434  </p>
435  <p>
436    New decoders featured are Bonk, RKA, Radiance, SC-4, APAC, VQC, WavArc and a few ADPCM formats.
437    QSV and NVenc now support AV1 encoding. The FFmpeg CLI (we usually reffer to it as ffmpeg.c
438    to avoid confusion) has speed-up improvements due to threading, as well as statistics options,
439    and the ability to pass option values for filters from a file. There are quite a few new audio
440    and video filters, such as adrc, showcwt, backgroundkey and ssim360, with a few hardware ones too.
441    Finally, the release features many behind-the-scenes changes, including a new FFT and MDCT
442    implementation used in codecs (expect a blog post about this soon), numerous bugfixes, better
443    ICC profile handling and colorspace signalling improvement, introduction of a number of RISC-V
444    vector and scalar assembly optimized routines, and a few new improved APIs, which can be viewed
445    in the doc/APIchanges file in our tree.
446    A few submitted features, such as the Vulkan improvements and more FFT optimizations will be in the
447    next minor release, 6.1, which we plan to release soon, in line with our new release schedule.
448    Some highlights are:
449  </p>
450  <ul>
451    <li>Radiance HDR image support</li>
452    <li>ddagrab (Desktop Duplication) video capture filter</li>
453    <li>ffmpeg -shortest_buf_duration option</li>
454    <li>ffmpeg now requires threading to be built</li>
455    <li>ffmpeg now runs every muxer in a separate thread</li>
456    <li>Add new mode to cropdetect filter to detect crop-area based on motion vectors and edges</li>
457    <li>VAAPI decoding and encoding for 10/12bit 422, 10/12bit 444 HEVC and VP9</li>
458    <li>WBMP (Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap) image format</li>
459    <li>a3dscope filter</li>
460    <li>bonk decoder and demuxer</li>
461    <li>Micronas SC-4 audio decoder</li>
462    <li>LAF demuxer</li>
463    <li>APAC decoder and demuxer</li>
464    <li>Media 100i decoders</li>
465    <li>DTS to PTS reorder bsf</li>
466    <li>ViewQuest VQC decoder</li>
467    <li>backgroundkey filter</li>
468    <li>nvenc AV1 encoding support</li>
469    <li>MediaCodec decoder via NDKMediaCodec</li>
470    <li>MediaCodec encoder</li>
471    <li>oneVPL support for QSV</li>
472    <li>QSV AV1 encoder</li>
473    <li>QSV decoding and encoding for 10/12bit 422, 10/12bit 444 HEVC and VP9</li>
474    <li>showcwt multimedia filter</li>
475    <li>corr video filter</li>
476    <li>adrc audio filter</li>
477    <li>afdelaysrc audio filter</li>
478    <li>WADY DPCM decoder and demuxer</li>
479    <li>CBD2 DPCM decoder</li>
480    <li>ssim360 video filter</li>
481    <li>ffmpeg CLI new options: -stats_enc_pre[_fmt], -stats_enc_post[_fmt], -stats_mux_pre[_fmt]</li>
482    <li>hstack_vaapi, vstack_vaapi and xstack_vaapi filters</li>
483    <li>XMD ADPCM decoder and demuxer</li>
484    <li>media100 to mjpegb bsf</li>
485    <li>ffmpeg CLI new option: -fix_sub_duration_heartbeat</li>
486    <li>WavArc decoder and demuxer</li>
487    <li>CrystalHD decoders deprecated</li>
488    <li>SDNS demuxer</li>
489    <li>RKA decoder and demuxer</li>
490    <li>filtergraph syntax in ffmpeg CLI now supports passing file contents as option values</li>
491    <li>hstack_qsv, vstack_qsv and xstack_qsv filters</li>
492  </ul>
493  <p>
494    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
495    upgrade unless they use current git master.
496  </p>
497
498  <h3 id="pr5.1">July 22nd, 2022, FFmpeg 5.1 "Riemann"</h3>
499  <p>
500    <a href="download.html#release_5.1">FFmpeg 5.1 "Riemann"</a>, a new
501    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
502  </p>
503  <ul>
504    <li>add ipfs/ipns protocol support</li>
505    <li>dialogue enhance audio filter</li>
506    <li>dropped obsolete XvMC hwaccel</li>
507    <li>pcm-bluray encoder</li>
508    <li>DFPWM audio encoder/decoder and raw muxer/demuxer</li>
509    <li>SITI filter</li>
510    <li>Vizrt Binary Image encoder/decoder</li>
511    <li>avsynctest source filter</li>
512    <li>feedback video filter</li>
513    <li>pixelize video filter</li>
514    <li>colormap video filter</li>
515    <li>colorchart video source filter</li>
516    <li>multiply video filter</li>
517    <li>PGS subtitle frame merge bitstream filter</li>
518    <li>blurdetect filter</li>
519    <li>tiltshelf audio filter</li>
520    <li>QOI image format support</li>
521    <li>ffprobe -o option</li>
522    <li>virtualbass audio filter</li>
523    <li>VDPAU AV1 hwaccel</li>
524    <li>PHM image format support</li>
525    <li>remap_opencl filter</li>
526    <li>added chromakey_cuda filter</li>
527  </ul>
528  <p>
529    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
530    upgrade unless they use current git master.
531  </p>
532
533  <h3 id="pr5.0">January 17th, 2022, FFmpeg 5.0 "Lorentz"</h3>
534  <p>
535    <a href="download.html#release_5.0">FFmpeg 5.0 "Lorentz"</a>, a new
536    major release, is now available! For this long-overdue release, a major effort
537    underwent to remove the old encode/decode APIs and replace them with an
538    N:M-based API, the entire libavresample library was removed, libswscale
539    has a new, easier to use AVframe-based API, the Vulkan code was much improved,
540    many new filters were added, including libplacebo integration, and finally,
541    DoVi support was added, including tonemapping and remuxing. The default
542    AAC encoder settings were also changed to improve quality.
543    Some of the changelog highlights:
544  </p>
545  <ul>
546    <li>ADPCM IMA Westwood encoder</li>
547    <li>Westwood AUD muxer</li>
548    <li>ADPCM IMA Acorn Replay decoder</li>
549    <li>Argonaut Games CVG demuxer</li>
550    <li>Argonaut Games CVG muxer</li>
551    <li>Concatf protocol</li>
552    <li>afwtdn audio filter</li>
553    <li>audio and video segment filters</li>
554    <li>Apple Graphics (SMC) encoder</li>
555    <li>hsvkey and hsvhold video filters</li>
556    <li>adecorrelate audio filter</li>
557    <li>atilt audio filter</li>
558    <li>grayworld video filter</li>
559    <li>AV1 Low overhead bitstream format muxer</li>
560    <li>swscale slice threading</li>
561    <li>MSN Siren decoder</li>
562    <li>scharr video filter</li>
563    <li>apsyclip audio filter</li>
564    <li>morpho video filter</li>
565    <li>amr parser</li>
566    <li>(a)latency filters</li>
567    <li>GEM Raster image decoder</li>
568    <li>asdr audio filter</li>
569    <li>speex decoder</li>
570    <li>limitdiff video filter</li>
571    <li>xcorrelate video filter</li>
572    <li>varblur video filter</li>
573    <li>huesaturation video filter</li>
574    <li>colorspectrum source video filter</li>
575    <li>RTP packetizer for uncompressed video (RFC 4175)</li>
576    <li>bitpacked encoder</li>
577    <li>VideoToolbox VP9 hwaccel</li>
578    <li>VideoToolbox ProRes hwaccel</li>
579    <li>support loongarch.</li>
580    <li>aspectralstats audio filter</li>
581    <li>adynamicsmooth audio filter</li>
582    <li>libplacebo filter</li>
583    <li>vflip_vulkan, hflip_vulkan and flip_vulkan filters</li>
584    <li>adynamicequalizer audio filter</li>
585    <li>yadif_videotoolbox filter</li>
586    <li>VideoToolbox ProRes encoder</li>
587    <li>anlmf audio filter</li>
588  </ul>
589  <p>
590    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
591    upgrade unless they use current git master.
592  </p>
593
594  <h3 id="irc2021">June 19th, 2021, IRC</h3>
595  <p>
596    We have a new IRC home at Libera Chat
597    now! Feel free to join us at #ffmpeg and #ffmpeg-devel. More info at <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/contact.html#IRCChannels">contact#IRCChannels</a>
598  </p>
599
600  <h3 id="pr4.4">April 8th, 2021, FFmpeg 4.4 "Rao"</h3>
601  <p>
602    <a href="download.html#release_4.4">FFmpeg 4.4 "Rao"</a>, a new
603    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
604  </p>
605  <ul>
606    <li>AudioToolbox output device</li>
607    <li>MacCaption demuxer</li>
608    <li>PGX decoder</li>
609    <li>chromanr video filter</li>
610    <li>VDPAU accelerated HEVC 10/12bit decoding</li>
611    <li>ADPCM IMA Ubisoft APM encoder</li>
612    <li>Rayman 2 APM muxer</li>
613    <li>AV1 encoding support SVT-AV1</li>
614    <li>Cineform HD encoder</li>
615    <li>ADPCM Argonaut Games encoder</li>
616    <li>Argonaut Games ASF muxer</li>
617    <li>AV1 Low overhead bitstream format demuxer</li>
618    <li>RPZA video encoder</li>
619    <li>ADPCM IMA MOFLEX decoder</li>
620    <li>MobiClip FastAudio decoder</li>
621    <li>MobiClip video decoder</li>
622    <li>MOFLEX demuxer</li>
623    <li>MODS demuxer</li>
624    <li>PhotoCD decoder</li>
625    <li>MCA demuxer</li>
626    <li>AV1 decoder (Hardware acceleration used only)</li>
627    <li>SVS demuxer</li>
628    <li>Argonaut Games BRP demuxer</li>
629    <li>DAT demuxer</li>
630    <li>aax demuxer</li>
631    <li>IPU decoder, parser and demuxer</li>
632    <li>Intel QSV-accelerated AV1 decoding</li>
633    <li>Argonaut Games Video decoder</li>
634    <li>libwavpack encoder removed</li>
635    <li>ACE demuxer</li>
636    <li>AVS3 demuxer</li>
637    <li>AVS3 video decoder via libuavs3d</li>
638    <li>Cintel RAW decoder</li>
639    <li>VDPAU accelerated VP9 10/12bit decoding</li>
640    <li>afreqshift and aphaseshift filters</li>
641    <li>
641High Voltage Software ADPCM encoder</li>
642    <li>LEGO Racers ALP (.tun & .pcm) muxer</li>
643    <li>AV1 VAAPI decoder</li>
644    <li>adenorm filter</li>
645    <li>ADPCM IMA AMV encoder</li>
646    <li>AMV muxer</li>
647    <li>NVDEC AV1 hwaccel</li>
648    <li>DXVA2/D3D11VA hardware accelerated AV1 decoding</li>
649    <li>speechnorm filter</li>
650    <li>SpeedHQ encoder</li>
651    <li>asupercut filter</li>
652    <li>asubcut filter</li>
653    <li>Microsoft Paint (MSP) version 2 decoder</li>
654    <li>Microsoft Paint (MSP) demuxer</li>
655    <li>AV1 monochrome encoding support via libaom >= 2.0.1</li>
656    <li>asuperpass and asuperstop filter</li>
657    <li>shufflepixels filter</li>
658    <li>tmidequalizer filter</li>
659    <li>estdif filter</li>
660    <li>epx filter</li>
661    <li>Dolby E parser</li>
662    <li>shear filter</li>
663    <li>kirsch filter</li>
664    <li>colortemperature filter</li>
665    <li>colorcontrast filter</li>
666    <li>PFM encoder</li>
667    <li>colorcorrect filter</li>
668    <li>binka demuxer</li>
669    <li>XBM parser</li>
670    <li>xbm_pipe demuxer</li>
671    <li>colorize filter</li>
672    <li>CRI parser</li>
673    <li>aexciter audio filter</li>
674    <li>exposure video filter</li>
675    <li>monochrome video filter</li>
676    <li>setts bitstream filter</li>
677    <li>vif video filter</li>
678    <li>OpenEXR image encoder</li>
679    <li>Simbiosis IMX decoder</li>
680    <li>Simbiosis IMX demuxer</li>
681    <li>Digital Pictures SGA demuxer and decoders</li>
682    <li>TTML subtitle encoder and muxer</li>
683    <li>identity video filter</li>
684    <li>msad video filter</li>
685    <li>gophers protocol</li>
686    <li>RIST protocol via librist</li>
687  </ul>
688  <p>
689    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
690    upgrade unless they use current git master.
691  </p>
692
693  <h3 id="pr4.3">June 15th, 2020, FFmpeg 4.3 "4:3"</h3>
694  <p>
695    <a href="download.html#release_4.3">FFmpeg 4.3 "4:3"</a>, a new
696    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
697  </p>
698  <ul>
699    <li>v360 filter</li>
700    <li>Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG decoding</li>
701    <li>Intel QSV-accelerated VP9 decoding</li>
702    <li>Support for TrueHD in mp4</li>
703    <li>Support AMD AMF encoder on Linux (via Vulkan)</li>
704    <li>IMM5 video decoder</li>
705    <li>ZeroMQ protocol</li>
706    <li>support Sipro ACELP.KELVIN decoding</li>
707    <li>streamhash muxer</li>
708    <li>sierpinski video source</li>
709    <li>scroll video filter</li>
710    <li>photosensitivity filter</li>
711    <li>anlms filter</li>
712    <li>arnndn filter</li>
713    <li>bilateral filter</li>
714    <li>maskedmin and maskedmax filters</li>
715    <li>VDPAU VP9 hwaccel</li>
716    <li>median filter</li>
717    <li>QSV-accelerated VP9 encoding</li>
718    <li>AV1 encoding support via librav1e</li>
719    <li>AV1 frame merge bitstream filter</li>
720    <li>AV1 Annex B demuxer</li>
721    <li>axcorrelate filter</li>
722    <li>mvdv decoder</li>
723    <li>mvha decoder</li>
724    <li>MPEG-H 3D Audio support in mp4</li>
725    <li>thistogram filter</li>
726    <li>freezeframes filter</li>
727    <li>Argonaut Games ADPCM decoder</li>
728    <li>Argonaut Games ASF demuxer</li>
729    <li>xfade video filter</li>
730    <li>xfade_opencl filter</li>
731    <li>afirsrc audio filter source</li>
732    <li>pad_opencl filter</li>
733    <li>Simon & Schuster Interactive ADPCM decoder</li>
734    <li>Real War KVAG demuxer</li>
735    <li>CDToons video decoder</li>
736    <li>siren audio decoder</li>
737    <li>Rayman 2 ADPCM decoder</li>
738    <li>Rayman 2 APM demuxer</li>
739    <li>cas video filter</li>
740    <li>High Voltage Software ADPCM decoder</li>
741    <li>LEGO Racers ALP (.tun & .pcm) demuxer</li>
742    <li>AMQP 0-9-1 protocol (RabbitMQ)</li>
743    <li>Vulkan support</li>
744    <li>avgblur_vulkan, overlay_vulkan, scale_vulkan and chromaber_vulkan filters</li>
745    <li>ADPCM IMA MTF decoder</li>
746    <li>FWSE demuxer</li>
747    <li>DERF DPCM decoder</li>
748    <li>DERF demuxer</li>
749    <li>CRI HCA decoder</li>
750    <li>CRI HCA demuxer</li>
751    <li>overlay_cuda filter</li>
752    <li>switch from AvxSynth to AviSynth+ on Linux</li>
753    <li>mv30 decoder</li>
754    <li>Expanded styling support for 3GPP Timed Text Subtitles (movtext)</li>
755    <li>WebP parser</li>
756    <li>tmedian filter</li>
757    <li>maskedthreshold filter</li>
758    <li>Support for muxing pcm and pgs in m2ts</li>
759    <li>Cunning Developments ADPCM decoder</li>
760    <li>asubboost filter</li>
761    <li>Pro Pinball Series Soundbank demuxer</li>
762    <li>pcm_rechunk bitstream filter</li>
763    <li>scdet filter</li>
764    <li>NotchLC decoder</li>
765    <li>gradients source video filter</li>
766    <li>MediaFoundation encoder wrapper</li>
767    <li>untile filter</li>
768    <li>Simon & Schuster Interactive ADPCM encoder</li>
769    <li>PFM decoder</li>
770    <li>dblur video filter</li>
771    <li>Real War KVAG muxer</li>
772  </ul>
773  <p>
774    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
775    upgrade unless they use current git master.
776  </p>
777
778  <h3 id="photosensitivity">October 5th, 2019, Bright Lights</h3>
779  <p>
780  FFmpeg has added a realtime bright flash removal filter to libavfilter.
781  </p>
782  <p>
783  Note that this filter is not FDA approved, nor are we medical professionals.
784  Nor has this filter been tested with anyone who has photosensitive epilepsy.
785  FFmpeg and its photosensitivity filter are not making any medical claims.
786  </p>
787  <p>
788  That said, this is a new video filter that may help photosensitive people
789  watch tv, play video games or even be used with a VR headset to block
790  out epiletic triggers such as filtered sunlight when they are outside.
791  Or you could use it against those annoying white flashes on your tv screen.
792  The filter fails on some input, such as the
793  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_9hXnUzRk">Incredibles 2 Screen Slaver</a>
794  scene. It is not perfect. If you have other clips that you want this filter to
795  work better on, please report them to us on our <a href="http://trac.ffmpeg.org">trac</a>.
796  </p>
797  <p>
798  <a href="http://ffmpeg.org/~compn/output20p8.mp4">See for yourself</a>.
799  Example was made with -vf photosensitivity=20:0.8
800  </p>
801  <p>
802  We are not professionals. Please use this in your medical studies to
803  advance epilepsy research. If you decide to use this in a medical
804  setting, or make a hardware hdmi input output realtime tv filter,
805  or find another use for this, <a href="mailto:[email protected]">please let me know</a>.
806  This filter was a feature request of mine
807  <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/2104">since 2013</a>.
808  </p>
809
810  <h3 id="pr4.2">August 5th, 2019, FFmpeg 4.2 "Ada"</h3>
811  <p>
812    <a href="download.html#release_4.2">FFmpeg 4.2 "Ada"</a>, a new
813    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
814  </p>
815  <ul>
816    <li>tpad filter</li>
817    <li>AV1 decoding support through libdav1d</li>
818    <li>dedot filter</li>
819    <li>chromashift and rgbashift filters</li>
820    <li>freezedetect filter</li>
821    <li>truehd_core bitstream filter</li>
822    <li>dhav demuxer</li>
823    <li>PCM-DVD encoder</li>
824    <li>GIF parser</li>
825    <li>vividas demuxer</li>
826    <li>hymt decoder</li>
827    <li>anlmdn filter</li>
828    <li>maskfun filter</li>
829    <li>hcom demuxer and decoder</li>
830    <li>ARBC decoder</li>
831    <li>libaribb24 based ARIB STD-B24 caption support (profiles A and C)</li>
832    <li>Support decoding of HEVC 4:4:4 content in nvdec and cuviddec</li>
833    <li>removed libndi-newtek</li>
834    <li>agm decoder</li>
835    <li>KUX demuxer</li>
836    <li>AV1 frame split bitstream filter</li>
837    <li>lscr decoder</li>
838    <li>lagfun filter</li>
839    <li>asoftclip filter</li>
840    <li>Support decoding of HEVC 4:4:4 content in vdpau</li>
841    <li>colorhold filter</li>
842    <li>xmedian filter</li>
843    <li>asr filter</li>
844    <li>showspatial multimedia filter</li>
845    <li>VP4 video decoder</li>
846    <li>IFV demuxer</li>
847    <li>derain filter</li>
848    <li>deesser filter</li>
849    <li>mov muxer writes tracks with unspecified language instead of English by default</li>
850    <li>added support for using clang to compile CUDA kernels</li>
851  </ul>
852  <p>
853    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
854    upgrade unless they use current git master.
855  </p>
856
857  <h3 id="pr4.1">November 6th, 2018, FFmpeg 4.1 "al-Khwarizmi"</h3>
858  <p>
859    <a href="download.html#release_4.1">FFmpeg 4.1 "al-Khwarizmi"</a>, a new
860    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
861  </p>
862  <ul>
863    <li>deblock filter</li>
864    <li>tmix filter</li>
865    <li>amplify filter</li>
866    <li>fftdnoiz filter</li>
867    <li>aderivative and aintegral audio filters</li>
868    <li>pal75bars and pal100bars video filter sources</li>
869    <li>mbedTLS based TLS support</li>
870    <li>adeclick and adeclip filters</li>
871    <li>libtensorflow backend for DNN based filters like srcnn</li>
872    <li>VC1 decoder is now bit-exact</li>
873    <li>ATRAC9 decoder</li>
874    <li>lensfun wrapper filter</li>
875    <li>colorconstancy filter</li>
876    <li>AVS2 video decoder via libdavs2</li>
877    <li>IMM4 video decoder</li>
878    <li>Brooktree ProSumer video decoder</li>
879    <li>MatchWare Screen Capture Codec decoder</li>
880    <li>WinCam Motion Video decoder</li>
881    <li>1D LUT filter (lut1d)</li>
882    <li>RemotelyAnywhere Screen Capture decoder</li>
883    <li>cue and acue filters</li>
884    <li>Support for AV1 in MP4 and Matroska/WebM</li>
885    <li>transpose_npp filter</li>
886    <li>AVS2 video encoder via libxavs2</li>
887    <li>amultiply filter</li>
888    <li>Block-Matching 3d (bm3d) denoising filter</li>
889    <li>acrossover filter</li>
890    <li>ilbc decoder</li>
891    <li>audio denoiser as afftdn filter</li>
892    <li>AV1 parser</li>
893    <li>sinc audio filter source</li>
894    <li>chromahold filter</li>
895    <li>setparams filter</li>
896    <li>vibrance filter</li>
897    <li>S12M timecode decoding in h264</li>
898    <li>xstack filter</li>
899    <li>(a)graphmonitor filter</li>
900    <li>yadif_cuda filter</li>
901  </ul>
902  <p>
903    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
904    upgrade unless they use current git master.
905  </p>
906
907  <h3 id="pr4.0">April 20th, 2018, FFmpeg 4.0 "Wu"</h3>
908  <p>
909    <a href="download.html#release_4.0">FFmpeg 4.0 "Wu"</a>, a new
910    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
911  </p>
912  <ul>
913    <li>Bitstream filters for editing metadata in H.264, HEVC and MPEG-2 streams</li>
914    <li>Experimental MagicYUV encoder</li>
915    <li>TiVo ty/ty+ demuxer</li>
916    <li>Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding</li>
917    <li>native aptX and aptX HD encoder and decoder</li>
918    <li>NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding</li>
919    <li>Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter</li>
920    <li>mcompand audio filter</li>
921    <li>acontrast audio filter</li>
922    <li>OpenCL overlay filter</li>
923    <li>video mix filter</li>
924    <li>video normalize filter</li>
925    <li>audio lv2 wrapper filter</li>
926    <li>VAAPI MJPEG and VP8 decoding</li>
927    <li>AMD AMF H.264 and HEVC encoders</li>
928    <li>video fillborders filter</li>
929    <li>video setrange filter</li>
930    <li>support LibreSSL (via libtls)</li>
931    <li>
931Dropped support for building for Windows XP. The minimum supported Windows version is Windows Vista.</li>
932    <li>deconvolve video filter</li>
933    <li>entropy video filter</li>
934    <li>hilbert audio filter source</li>
935    <li>aiir audio filter</li>
936    <li>Removed the ffserver program</li>
937    <li>Removed the ffmenc and ffmdec muxer and demuxer</li>
938    <li>VideoToolbox HEVC encoder and hwaccel</li>
939    <li>VAAPI-accelerated ProcAmp (color balance), denoise and sharpness filters</li>
940    <li>Add android_camera indev</li>
941    <li>codec2 en/decoding via libcodec2</li>
942    <li>native SBC encoder and decoder</li>
943    <li>drmeter audio filter</li>
944    <li>hapqa_extract bitstream filter</li>
945    <li>filter_units bitstream filter</li>
946    <li>AV1 Support through libaom</li>
947    <li>E-AC-3 dependent frames support</li>
948    <li>bitstream filter for extracting E-AC-3 core</li>
949    <li>Haivision SRT protocol via libsrt</li>
950    <li>vfrdet filter</li>
951  </ul>
952  <p>
953    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
954    upgrade unless they use current git master.
955  </p>
956
957  <h3 id="pr3.4">October 15th, 2017, FFmpeg 3.4 "Cantor"</h3>
958  <p>
959    <a href="download.html#release_3.4">FFmpeg 3.4 "Cantor"</a>, a new
960    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
961  </p>
962  <ul>
963    <li>deflicker video filter</li>
964    <li>doubleweave video filter</li>
965    <li>lumakey video filter</li>
966    <li>pixscope video filter</li>
967    <li>oscilloscope video filter</li>
968    <li>update cuvid/nvenc headers to Video Codec SDK 8.0.14</li>
969    <li>afir audio filter</li>
970    <li>scale_cuda CUDA based video scale filter</li>
971    <li>librsvg support for svg rasterization</li>
972    <li>crossfeed audio filter</li>
973    <li>spec compliant VP9 muxing support in MP4</li>
974    <li>surround audio filter</li>
975    <li>sofalizer filter switched to libmysofa</li>
976    <li>Gremlin Digital Video demuxer and decoder</li>
977    <li>headphone audio filter</li>
978    <li>superequalizer audio filter</li>
979    <li>roberts video filter</li>
980    <li>additional frame format support for Interplay MVE movies</li>
981    <li>support for decoding through D3D11VA in ffmpeg</li>
982    <li>limiter video filter</li>
983    <li>libvmaf video filter</li>
984    <li>Dolby E decoder and SMPTE 337M demuxer</li>
985    <li>unpremultiply video filter</li>
986    <li>tlut2 video filter</li>
987    <li>floodfill video filter</li>
988    <li>pseudocolor video filter</li>
989    <li>raw G.726 muxer and demuxer, left- and right-justified</li>
990    <li>NewTek NDI input/output device</li>
991    <li>FITS demuxer and decoder</li>
992    <li>FITS muxer and encoder</li>
993    <li>despill video filter</li>
994    <li>haas audio filter</li>
995    <li>SUP/PGS subtitle muxer</li>
996    <li>convolve video filter</li>
997    <li>VP9 tile threading support</li>
998    <li>KMS screen grabber</li>
999    <li>CUDA thumbnail filter</li>
1000    <li>V4L2 mem2mem HW assisted codecs</li>
1001    <li>Rockchip MPP hardware decoding</li>
1002    <li>vmafmotion video filter</li>
1003  </ul>
1004  <p>
1005    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
1006    upgrade unless they use current git master.
1007  </p>
1008
1009  <h3 id="pr3.3">April 13th, 2017, FFmpeg 3.3 "Hilbert"</h3>
1010  <p>
1011    <a href="download.html#release_3.3">FFmpeg 3.3 "Hilbert"</a>, a new
1012    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
1013  </p>
1014  <ul>
1015    <li>Apple Pixlet decoder</li>
1016    <li>NewTek SpeedHQ decoder</li>
1017    <li>QDMC audio decoder</li>
1018    <li>PSD (Photoshop Document) decoder</li>
1019    <li>FM Screen Capture decoder</li>
1020    <li>ScreenPressor decoder</li>
1021    <li>XPM decoder</li>
1022    <li>DNxHR decoder fixes for HQX and high resolution videos</li>
1023    <li>ClearVideo decoder (partial)</li>
1024    <li>16.8 and 24.0 floating point PCM decoder</li>
1025    <li>Intel QSV-accelerated VP8 video decoding</li>
1026    <li>native Opus encoder</li>
1027    <li>DNxHR 444 and HQX encoding</li>
1028    <li>Quality improvements for the (M)JPEG encoder</li>
1029    <li>VAAPI-accelerated MPEG-2 and VP8 encoding</li>
1030    <li>premultiply video filter</li>
1031    <li>abitscope multimedia filter</li>
1032    <li>readeia608 filter</li>
1033    <li>threshold filter</li>
1034    <li>midequalizer filter</li>
1035    <li>MPEG-7 Video Signature filter</li>
1036    <li>add internal ebur128 library, remove external libebur128 dependency</li>
1037    <li>Intel QSV video scaling and deinterlacing filters</li>
1038    <li>Sample Dump eXchange demuxer</li>
1039    <li>MIDI Sample Dump Standard demuxer</li>
1040    <li>Scenarist Closed Captions demuxer and muxer</li>
1041    <li>Support MOV with multiple sample description tables</li>
1042    <li>Pro-MPEG CoP #3-R2 FEC protocol</li>
1043    <li>Support for spherical videos</li>
1044    <li>CrystalHD decoder moved to new decode API</li>
1045    <li>configure now fails if autodetect-libraries are requested but not found</li>
1046  </ul>
1047  <p>
1048    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
1049    upgrade unless they use current git master.
1050  </p>
1051
1052  <h3 id="gsoc2016finalreport">October 30th, 2016, Results: Summer Of Code 2016.</h3>
1053  <p>
1054    This has been a long time coming but we wanted to give a proper closure to our participation in this run of the program and it takes time. Sometimes it's just to get the final report for each project trimmed down, others, is finalizing whatever was still in progress when the program finished: final patches need to be merged, TODO lists stabilized, future plans agreed; you name it.
1055  </p>
1056  <p>
1057    Without further ado, here's the silver-lining for each one of the projects we sought to complete during this Summer of Code season:
1058  </p>
1059  <h4>FFv1 (Mentor: Michael Niedermayer)</h4>
1060  <p>
1061    Stanislav Dolganov designed and implemented experimental support for motion estimation and compensation in the lossless FFV1 codec. The design and implementation is based on the snow video codec, which uses OBMC. Stanislav's work proved that significant compression gains can be achieved with inter frame c
1061ompression. FFmpeg welcomes Stanislav to continue working beyond this proof of concept and bring its advances into the official FFV1 specification within the IETF.
1062  </p>
1063  <h4>Self test coverage (Mentor: Michael Niedermayer)</h4>
1064  <p>
1065    Petru Rares Sincraian added several self-tests to FFmpeg and successfully went through the in-some-cases tedious process of fine tuning tests parameters to avoid known and hard to avoid problems, like checksum mismatches due to rounding errors on the myriad of platforms we support. His work has improved the code coverage of our self tests considerably.
1066  </p>
1067  <h4>MPEG-4 ALS encoder implementation (Mentor: Thilo Borgmann)</h4>
1068  <p>
1069    Umair Khan updated and integrated the ALS encoder to fit in the current FFmpeg codebase. He also implemented a missing feature for the ALS decoder that enables floating-point sample decoding. FFmpeg support for MPEG-4 ALS has been improved significantly by Umair's work. We welcome him to keep maintaining his improvements and hope for great contributions to come.
1070  </p>
1071  <h4>Tee muxer improvements (Mentor: Marton Balint)</h4>
1072  <p>
1073    Ján Sebechlebský's generic goal was to improve the tee muxer so it tolerated blocking IO and allowed transparent error recovery. During the design phase it turned out that this functionality called for a separate muxer, so Ján spent his summer working on the so-called FIFO muxer, gradually fixing issues all over the codebase. He succeeded in his task, and the FIFO muxer is now part of the main repository, alongside several other improvements he made in the process.
1074  </p>
1075  <h4>TrueHD encoder (Mentor: Rostislav Pehlivanov)</h4>
1076  <p>
1077    Jai Luthra's objective was to update the out-of-tree and pretty much abandoned MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) encoder for libavcodec and improve it to enable encoding to the TrueHD format. For the qualification period the encoder was updated such that it was usable and throughout the summer, successfully improved adding support for multi-channel audio and TrueHD encoding. Jai's code has been merged into the main repository now. While a few problems remain with respect to LFE channel and 32 bit sample handling, these are in the process of being fixed such that effort can be finally put in improving the encoder's speed and efficiency.
1078  </p>
1079  <h4>Motion interpolation filter (Mentor: Paul B Mahol)</h4>
1080  <p>
1081    Davinder Singh investigated existing motion estimation and interpolation approaches from the available literature and previous work by our own: Michael Niedermayer, and implemented filters based on this research. These filters allow motion interpolating frame rate conversion to be applied to a video, for example, to create a slow motion effect or change the frame rate while smoothly interpolating the video along the motion vectors. There's still work to be done to call these filters 'finished', which is rather hard all things considered, but we are looking optimistically at their future.
1082  </p>
1083  <p>
1084    And that's it. We are happy with the results of the program and immensely thankful for the opportunity of working with such an amazing set of students. We can be a tough crowd but our mentors did an amazing job at hand holding our interns through their journey. Thanks also to Google for this wonderful program and to everyone that made room in their busy lives to help making GSoC2016 a success. See you in 2017!
1085  </p>
1086  <h3 id="sdl1">September 24th, 2016, SDL1 support dropped.</h3>
1087  <p>
1088    Support for the SDL1 library has been dropped, due to it no longer being maintained (as of
1089    January, 2012) and it being superseded by the SDL2 library. As a result, the SDL1 output device
1090    has also been removed and replaced by an SDL2 implementation. Both the ffplay and opengl output
1091    devices have been updated to support SDL2.
1092  </p>
1093  <h3 id="pr3.1.2">August 9th, 2016, FFmpeg 3.1.2 "Laplace"</h3>
1094  <p>
1095    <a href="download.html#release_3.1">FFmpeg 3.1.2</a>, a new point release from the 3.1 release branch, is now available!
1096    It fixes several bugs.
1097  </p>
1098  <p>
1099    We recommend users, distributors, and system integrators, to upgrade unless they use current git master.
1100  </p>
1101  <h3 id="ffserv">July 10th, 2016, ffserver program being dropped</h3>
1102  <p>
1103    After thorough deliberation, we're announcing that we're about to drop the ffserver program from the project starting with the next release.
1104    ffserver has been a problematic program to maintain due to its use of internal APIs, which complicated the recent cleanups to the libavformat
1105    library, and block further cleanups and improvements which are desired by API users and will be easier to maintain. Furthermore the program has
1106    been hard for users to deploy and run due to reliability issues, lack of knowledgable people to help and confusing configuration file syntax.
1107    Current users and members of the community are invited to write a replacement program to fill the same niche that ffserver did using the new APIs
1108    and to contact us so we may point users to test and contribute to its development.
1109  </p>
1110  <h3 id="pr3.1.1">July 1st, 2016, FFmpeg 3.1.1 "Laplace"</h3>
1111  <p>
1112    <a href="download.html#release_3.1">FFmpeg 3.1.1</a>, a new point release from the 3.1 release branch, is now available!
1113    It mainly deals with a few ABI issues introduced in the previous release.
1114  </p>
1115  <p>
1116    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators, especially those who experienced issues upgrading from 3.0, to
1117    upgrade unless they use current git master.
1118  </p>
1119
1120  <h3 id="pr3.1">June 27th, 2016, FFmpeg 3.1 "Laplace"</h3>
1121  <p>
1122    <a href="download.html#release_3.1">FFmpeg 3.1 "Laplace"</a>, a new
1123    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
1124  </p>
1125  <ul>
1126    <li>DXVA2-accelerated HEVC Main10 decoding</li>
1127    <li>fieldhint filter</li>
1128    <li>loop video filter and aloop audio filter</li>
1129    <li>Bob Weaver deinterlacing filter</li>
1130    <li>firequalizer filter</li>
1131    <li>datascope filter</li>
1132    <li>bench and abench filters</li>
1133    <li>ciescope filter</li>
1134    <li>
1134protocol blacklisting API</li>
1135    <li>MediaCodec H264 decoding</li>
1136    <li>VC-2 HQ RTP payload format (draft v1) depacketizer and packetizer</li>
1137    <li>VP9 RTP payload format (draft v2) packetizer</li>
1138    <li>AudioToolbox audio decoders</li>
1139    <li>AudioToolbox audio encoders</li>
1140    <li>coreimage filter (GPU based image filtering on OSX)</li>
1141    <li>libdcadec removed</li>
1142    <li>bitstream filter for extracting DTS core</li>
1143    <li>ADPCM IMA DAT4 decoder</li>
1144    <li>musx demuxer</li>
1145    <li>aix demuxer</li>
1146    <li>remap filter</li>
1147    <li>hash and framehash muxers</li>
1148    <li>colorspace filter</li>
1149    <li>hdcd filter</li>
1150    <li>readvitc filter</li>
1151    <li>VAAPI-accelerated format conversion and scaling</li>
1152    <li>libnpp/CUDA-accelerated format conversion and scaling</li>
1153    <li>Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time decoder</li>
1154    <li>Wideband Single-bit Data (WSD) demuxer</li>
1155    <li>VAAPI-accelerated H.264/HEVC/MJPEG encoding</li>
1156    <li>DTS Express (LBR) decoder</li>
1157    <li>Generic OpenMAX IL encoder with support for Raspberry Pi</li>
1158    <li>IFF ANIM demuxer & decoder</li>
1159    <li>Direct Stream Transfer (DST) decoder</li>
1160    <li>loudnorm filter</li>
1161    <li>MTAF demuxer and decoder</li>
1162    <li>MagicYUV decoder</li>
1163    <li>OpenExr improvements (tile data and B44/B44A support)</li>
1164    <li>BitJazz SheerVideo decoder</li>
1165    <li>CUDA CUVID H264/HEVC decoder</li>
1166    <li>10-bit depth support in native utvideo decoder</li>
1167    <li>libutvideo wrapper removed</li>
1168    <li>YUY2 Lossless Codec decoder</li>
1169    <li>VideoToolbox H.264 encoder</li>
1170  </ul>
1171  <p>
1172    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
1173    upgrade unless they use current git master.
1174  </p>
1175
1176  <h3 id="gsoc2016">March 16th, 2016, Google Summer of Code</h3>
1177  <p>
1178    FFmpeg has been accepted as a <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/">Google Summer of Code</a> open source organization. If you wish to
1179    participate as a student see our <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/GSoC/2016">project ideas page</a>.
1180    You can already get in contact with mentors and start working on qualification tasks as well as register at google and submit your project proposal draft.
1181    Good luck!
1182  </p>
1183
1184  <h3 id="pr3.0">February 15th, 2016, FFmpeg 3.0 "Einstein"</h3>
1185  <p>
1186    <a href="download.html#release_3.0">FFmpeg 3.0 "Einstein"</a>, a new
1187    major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:
1188  </p>
1189  <ul>
1190    <li><a href="#aac_encoder_stable">The native FFmpeg AAC encoder has seen extensive improvements and is no longer considered experimental</a></li>
1191    <li><a href="#removing_external_aac_encoders">Removed support for libvo-aacenc and libaacplus</a></li>
1192    <li>Over 30 new filters have been added</li>
1193    <li>Many ASM optimizations</li>
1194    <li>VP9 Hardware Acceleration (DXVA2 and VA-API)</li>
1195    <li>Cineform HD decoder</li>
1196    <li>New DCA decoder based on libdcadec with full support for DTS-HD extensions</li>
1197    <li>As with all major releases expect major backward incompatible API/ABI changes</li>
1198    <li>See the <a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=Changelog;hb=n3.0">Changelog</a> for a list of more updates</li>
1199  </ul>
1200  <p>
1201    We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to
1202    upgrade unless they use current git master.
1203  </p>
1204
1205  <h3 id="removing_external_aac_encoders">January 30, 2016, Removing support for two external AAC encoders</h3>
1206  <p>
1207    We have just removed support for VisualOn AAC encoder (libvo-aacenc) and
1208    libaacplus in FFmpeg master.
1209  </p>
1210  <p>
1211    Even before marking our internal AAC encoder as
1212    <a href="#aac_encoder_stable">stable</a>, it was known that libvo-aacenc
1213    was of an inferior quality compared to our native one for most samples.
1214    However, the VisualOn encoder was used extensively by the Android Open
1215    Source Project, and we would like to have a tested-and-true stable option
1216    in our code base.
1217  </p>
1218  <p>
1219    When first committed in 2011, libaacplus filled in the gap of encoding
1220    High Efficiency AAC formats (HE-AAC and HE-AACv2), which was not supported
1221    by any of the encoders in FFmpeg at that time.
1222  </p>
1223  <p>
1224    The circumstances for both have changed. After the work spearheaded by
1225    Rostislav Pehlivanov and Claudio Freire, the now-stable FFmpeg native AAC
1226    encoder is ready to compete with much more mature encoders. The Fraunhofer
1227    FDK AAC Codec Library for Android was added in 2012 as the fourth
1228    supported external AAC encoder, and the one with the best quality and the
1229    most features supported, including HE-AAC and HE-AACv2.
1230  </p>
1231  <p>
1232    Therefore, we have decided that it is time to remove libvo-aacenc and
1233    libaacplus. If you are currently using libvo-aacenc, prepare to transition
1234    to the native encoder (<code>aac</code>) when updating to the next version
1235    of FFmpeg. In most cases it is as simple as merely swapping the encoder
1236    name. If you are currently using libaacplus, start using FDK AAC
1237    (<code>libfdk_aac</code>) with an appropriate <code>profile</code> option
1238    to select the exact AAC profile that fits your needs. In both cases, you
1239    will enjoy an audible quality improvement and as well as fewer licensing
1240    headaches.
1241  </p>
1242  <p>
1243    Enjoy!
1244  </p>
1245
1246  <h3 id="pr2.8.5">January 16, 2016, FFmpeg 2.8.5, 2.7.5, 2.6.7, 2.5.10</h3>
1247  <p>
1248    We have made several new point releases (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.8">2.8.5</a>,
1249      <a href="download.html#release_2.7">2.7.5</a>,
1250      <a href="download.html#release_2.6">2.6.7</a>,
1251      <a href="download.html#release_2.5">2.5.10</a></b>).
1252    They fix various bugs, as well as CVE-2016-1897 and CVE-2016-1898.
1253    Please see the changelog for each release for more details.
1254  </p>
1255  <p>
1256    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
1257    current git master.
1258  </p>
1259
1260  <h3 id="aac_encoder_stable">December 5th, 2015, The native FFmpeg AAC encoder is now stable!</h3>
1261  <p>
1262    After seven years the native FFmpeg AAC encoder has had its experimental flag
1263    removed and declared as ready for general use. The encoder is transparent
1264    at 128kbps for most samples tested with artifacts only appearing in extreme
1265    cases. Subjective quality tests put the encoder to be of equal or greater
1266    quality than most of the other encoders available to the public.
1267  </p>
1268  <p>
1269    Licensing has always been an issue with encoding AAC audio as most of the
1270    encoders have had a license making FFmpeg unredistributable if compiled with
1271    support for them. The fact that there now exists a fully open and truly
1272    free AAC encoder integrated directly within the project means a lot to those
1273    who wish to use accepted and widespread standards.
1274  </p>
1275  <p>
1276    The majority of the work done to bring the encoder up to quality was started
1277    during this year's GSoC by developer Claudio Freire and Rostislav Pehlivanov.
1278    Both continued to work on the encoder with the latter joining as a developer
1279    and mainainer, working on other parts of the project as well. Also, thanks
1280    to <a href="http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kamedo2/">Kamedo2</a> who does comparisons
1281    and tests, the original authors and all past and current contributors to the
1282    encoder. Users are suggested and encouraged to use the encoder and provide
1283    feedback or breakage reports through our <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/">bug tracker</a>.
1284  </p>
1285
1286  <h3 id="thanks_sponsor_0001">October 13th, 2015, Telepoint &amp; MediaHub are now supporting our project</h3>
1287  <p>
1288    A big thank you note goes to our newest supporters: MediaHub and Telepoint.
1289    Both companies have donated a dedicated server with free of charge internet
1290    connectivity. Here is a little bit about them in their own words:
1291  </p>
1292
1293  <ul>
1294    <li>
1295      <p>
1296        <a href="http://www.telepoint.bg/en/">Telepoint</a> is the biggest
1297        carrier-neutral data center in Bulgaria. Located in the heart of Sofia
1298        on a cross-road of many Bulgarian and International networks, the
1299        facility is a fully featured Tier 3 data center that provides flexible
1300        customer-oriented colocation solutions (ranging from a server to a
1301        private collocation hall) and a high level of security.
1302      </p>
1303    </li>
1304
1305    <li>
1306      <p>
1307        MediaHub Ltd. is a Bulgarian IPTV platform and services provider which
1308        uses FFmpeg heavily since it started operating a year ago. <i>"Donating
1309        to help keep FFmpeg online is our way of giving back to the community"
1310        </i>.
1311      </p>
1312    </li>
1313  </ul>
1314
1315  <p>
1316    Thanks Telepoint and MediaHub for their support!
1317  </p>
1318
1319  <h3 id="gsoc2015_result">September 29th, 2015, GSoC 2015 results</h3>
1320
1321  <p>
1322    FFmpeg participated to the latest edition of
1323    the <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015">Google
1324    Summer of Code</a> Project. FFmpeg got a total of 8 assigned
1325    projects, and 7 of them were successful.
1326  </p>
1327
1328  <p>We want to thank <a href="https://www.google.com">Google</a>, the
1329    participating students, and especially the mentors who joined this
1330    effort. We're looking forward to participating in the next GSoC
1331    edition!
1332  </p>
1333
1334  <p>
1335    Below you can find a brief description of the final outcome of
1336    each single project.
1337  </p>
1338
1339  <h4>Basic servers for network protocols, mentee: Stephan Holljes, mentor: Nicolas George</h4>
1340
1341  <p>
1342    Stephan Holljes's project for this session of Google Summer of Code was to
1343    implement basic HTTP server features for libavformat, to complement the
1344    already present HTTP client and RTMP and RTSP server code.
1345  </p>
1346
1347  <p>
1348    The first part of the project was to make the HTTP code capable of accepting
1349    a single client; it was completed partly during the qualification period and
1350    partly during the first week of the summer. Thanks to this work, it is now
1351    possible to make a simple HTTP stream using the following commands:
1352  </p>
1353
1354  <pre>
1355    ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -listen 1 -f matroska \
1356    -c:v libx264 -preset fast -tune zerolatency http://:8080
1357    ffplay http://localhost:8080/
1358  </pre>
1359
1360  <p>
1361    The next part of the project was to extend the code to be able to accept
1362    several clients, simultaneously or consecutively. Since libavformat did not
1363    have an API for that kind of task, it was necessary to design one. This part
1364    was mostly completed before the midterm and applied shortly afterwards.
1365    Since the ffmpeg command-line tool is not ready to serve several clients,
1366    the test ground for that new API is an example program serving hard-coded
1367    content.
1368  </p>
1369
1370  <p>
1371    The last and most ambitious part of the project was to update ffserver to
1372    make use of the new API. It would prove that the API is usable to implement
1373    real HTTP servers, and expose the points where more control was needed. By
1374    the end of the summer, a first working patch series was undergoing code
1375    review.
1376  </p>
1377
1378  <h4>Browsing content on the server, mentee: Mariusz Szczepańczyk, mentor: Lukasz Marek</h4>
1379
1380  <p>
1381    Mariusz finished an API prepared by the FFmpeg community and implemented
1382    Samba directory listing as qualification task.
1383  </p>
1384
1385  <p>
1386    During the program he extended the API with the possibility to
1387    remove and rename files on remote servers. He completed the
1388    implementation of these features for file, Samba, SFTP, and FTP
1389    protocols.
1390  </p>
1391
1392  <p>
1393    At the end of the program, Mariusz provided a sketch of an
1394    implementation for HTTP directory listening.
1395  </p>
1396
1397  <h4>Directshow digital video capture, mentee: Mate Sebok, mentor: Roger Pack</h4>
1398
1399  <p>
1400    Mate was working on directshow input from digital video sources. He
1401    got working input from ATSC input sources, with specifiable tuner.
1402  </p>
1403
1404  <p>
1405    The code has not been committed, but a patch of it was sent to the
1406    ffmpeg-devel mailing list for future use.
1407  </p>
1408
1409  <p>
1410    The mentor plans on cleaning it up and committing it, at least for the
1411    ATSC side of things. Mate and the mentor are still working trying to
1412    finally figure out how to get DVB working.
1413  </p>
1414
1415  <h4>Implementing full support for 3GPP Timed Text Subtitles, mentee: Niklesh Lalwani, mentor: Philip Langdale</h4>
1416
1417  <p>
1418    Niklesh's project was to expand our support for 3GPP Timed Text
1419    subtitles. This is the native subtitle format for mp4 containers, and
1420    is interesting because it's usually the only subtitle format supported
1421    by the stock playback applications on iOS and Android devices.
1422  </p>
1423
1424  <p>
1425    ffmpeg already had basic support for these subtitles which ignored all
1426    formatting information - it just provided basic plain-text support.
1427  </p>
1428
1429  <p>
1430    Niklesh did work to add support on both the encode and decode side for
1431    text formatting capabilities, such as font size/colour and effects like
1432    bold/italics, highlighting, etc.
1433  </p>
1434
1435  <p>
1436    The main challenge here is that Timed Text handles formatting in a very
1437    different way from most common subtitle formats. It uses a binary
1438    encoding (based on mp4 boxes, naturally) and stores information
1439    separately from the text itself. This requires additional work to track
1440    which parts of the text formatting applies to, and explicitly dealing
1441    with overlapping formatting (which other formats support but Timed
1442    Text does not) so it requires breaking the overlapping sections into
1443    separate non-overlapping ones with different formatting.
1444  </p>
1445
1446  <p>
1447    Finally, Niklesh had to be careful about not trusting any size
1448    information in the subtitles - and that's no joke: the now infamous
1449    Android stagefright bug was in code for parsing Timed Text subtitles.
1450  </p>
1451
1452  <p>
1453    All of Niklesh's work is committed and was released in ffmpeg 2.8.
1454  </p>
1455
1456<h4>libswscale refactoring, mentee: Pedro Arthur, mentors: Michael Niedermayer, Ramiro Polla</h4>
1457
1458  <p>
1459    Pedro Arthur has modularized the vertical and horizontal scalers.
1460    To do this he designed and implemented a generic filter framework
1461    and moved the existing scaler code into it. These changes now allow
1462    easily adding removing, splitting or merging processing steps.
1463    The implementation was benchmarked and several alternatives were
1464    tried to avoid speed loss.
1465  </p>
1466
1467  <p>
1468    He also added gamma corrected scaling support.
1469    An example to use gamma corrected scaling would be:
1470  </p>
1471
1472  <pre>
1473    ffmpeg -i input -vf scale=512:384:gamma=1 output
1474  </pre>
1475
1476  <p>
1477    Pedro has done impressive work considering the short time available,
1478    and he is a FFmpeg committer now. He continues to contribute to
1479    FFmpeg, and has fixed some bugs in libswscale after GSoC has
1480    ended.
1481  </p>
1482
1483  <h4>AAC Encoder Improvements, mentee: Rostislav Pehlivanov, mentor: Claudio Freire</h4>
1484
1485  <p>
1486    Rostislav Pehlivanov has implemented PNS, TNS, I/S coding and main
1487    prediction on the native AAC encoder. Of all those extensions, only
1488    TNS was left in a less-than-usable state, but the implementation has
1489    been pushed (disabled) anyway since it's a good basis for further
1490    improvements.
1491  </p>
1492
1493  <p>
1494    PNS replaces noisy bands with a single scalefactor representing the
1495    energy of that band, gaining in coding efficiency considerably, and
1496    the quality improvements on low bitrates are impressive for such a
1497    simple feature.
1498  </p>
1499
1500  <p>
1501    TNS still needs some polishing, but has the potential to reduce coding
1502    artifacts by applying noise shaping in the temporal domain (something
1503    that is a source of annoying, notable distortion on low-entropy
1504    bands).
1505  </p>
1506
1507  <p>
1508    Intensity Stereo coding (I/S) can double coding efficiency by
1509    exploiting strong correlation between stereo channels, most effective
1510    on pop-style tracks that employ panned mixing. The technique is not as
1511    effective on classic X-Y recordings though.
1512  </p>
1513
1514  <p>
1515    Finally, main prediction improves coding efficiency by exploiting
1516    correlation among successive frames. While the gains have not been
1517    huge at this point, Rostislav has remained active even after the GSoC,
1518    and is polishing both TNS and main prediction, as well as looking for
1519    further improvements to make.
1520  </p>
1521
1522  <p>
1523    In the process, the MIPS port of the encoder was broken a few times,
1524    something he's also working to fix.
1525  </p>
1526
1527  <h4>Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG), mentee: Donny Yang, mentor: Paul B Mahol</h4>
1528
1529  <p>
1530    Donny Yang implemented basic keyframe only APNG encoder as the
1531    qualification task. Later he wrote interframe compression via
1532    various blend modes. The current implementation tries all blend
1533    modes and picks one which takes the smallest amount of memory.
1534  </p>
1535
1536  <p>
1537    Special care was taken to make sure that the decoder plays
1538    correctly all files found in the wild and that the encoder
1539    produces files that can be played in browsers that support APNG.
1540  </p>
1541
1542  <p>
1543    During his work he was tasked to fix any encountered bug in the
1544    decoder due to the fact that it doesn't match APNG
1545    specifications. Thanks to this work, a long standing bug in the
1546    PNG decoder has been fixed.
1547  </p>
1548
1549  <p>
1550    For latter work he plans to continue working on the encoder,
1551    making it possible to select which blend modes will be used in the
1552    encoding process. This could speed up encoding of APNG files.
1553  </p>
1554
1555  <h3 id="pr2.8">September 9th, 2015, FFmpeg 2.8</h3>
1556  <p>
1557    We published release <b><a href="download.html#release_2.8">2.8</a></b> as new major version.
1558    It contains all features and bug fixes of the git master branch from September 8th. Please see
1559    the <b><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/release/2.8/Changelog">changelog</a></b>
1560    for a list of the most important changes.
1561  </p>
1562  <p>
1563    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.
1564  </p>
1565
1566  <h3 id="message">August 1st, 2015, A message from the FFmpeg project</h3>
1567  <p>
1568    Dear multimedia community,
1569  </p>
1570  <p>
1571    The resignation of Michael Niedermayer as leader of FFmpeg yesterday has
1572    come by surprise. He has worked tirelessly on the FFmpeg project for many
1573    years and we must thank him for the work that he has done. We hope that in
1574    the future he will continue to contribute to the project. In the coming
1575    weeks, the FFmpeg project will be managed by the active contributors.
1576  </p>
1577  <p>
1578    The last four years have not been easy for our multimedia community - both
1579    contributors and users. We should now look to the future, try to find
1580    solutions to these issues, and to have reconciliation between the forks,
1581    which have split the community for so long.
1582  </p>
1583  <p>
1584    Unfortunately, much of the disagreement has taken place in inappropriate
1585    venues so far, which has made finding common ground and solutions
1586    difficult. We aim to discuss this in our communities online over the coming
1587    weeks, and in person at the <a
1588    href="https://www.videolan.org/videolan/events/vdd15/">VideoLAN Developer
1589    Days</a> in Paris in September: a neutral venue for the entire open source
1590    multimedia community.
1591  </p>
1592  <p>
1593    The FFmpeg project.
1594  </p>
1595
1596  <h3 id="needhost">July 4th, 2015, FFmpeg needs a new host</h3>
1597  <p><b>UPDATE:</b> We have received more than 7 offers for hosting and servers, thanks a lot to everyone!</p>
1598  <p>
1599    After graciously hosting our projects (<a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a>, <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">MPlayer</a>
1600    and <a href="http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu">rtmpdump</a>) for 4 years, Arpi (our hoster) has informed us that we have to secure a new host somewhere else immediately.
1601  </p>
1602  <p>
1603    If you want to host an open source project, please let us know, either on <a href="http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel">ffmpeg-devel</a>
1604    mailing list or irc.freenode.net #ffmpeg-devel.
1605  </p>
1606  <p>
1607    We use about 4TB of storage and at least 4TB of bandwidth / month for various mailing lists, <a href="http://trac.ffmpeg.org">trac</a>, <a href="http://samples.ffmpeg.org">samples repo</a>, svn, etc.
1608  </p>
1609
1610  <h3 id="pr2.6.1">March 16, 2015, FFmpeg 2.6.1</h3>
1611  <p>
1612    We have made a new major release (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.6">2.6</a></b>)
1613    and now one week afterward 2.6.1. It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch from the 6th March.
1614    Please see the <b><a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=RELEASE_NOTES;hb=release/2.6">Release Notes</a></b> for a
1615    list of note-worthy changes.
1616  </p>
1617  <p>
1618    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
1619    current git master.
1620  </p>
1621
1622  <h3 id="gsoc2015">March 4, 2015, Google Summer of Code</h3>
1623  <p>
1624    FFmpeg has been accepted as a <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015">Google Summer of Code</a> Project. If you wish to
1625    participate as a student see our <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/GSoC/2015">project ideas page</a>.
1626    You can already get in contact with mentors and start working on qualification tasks. Registration
1627    at Google for students will open March 16th. Good luck!
1628  </p>
1629
1630  <h3 id="clt2015">March 1, 2015, Chemnitzer Linux-Tage</h3>
1631  <p>
1632    We happily announce that FFmpeg will be represented at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage
1633    (CLT) in Chemnitz, Germany. The event will take place on 21st and 22nd of March.
1634  </p>
1635
1636  <p>
1637    More information can be found <a href="https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2015/en/">here</a>
1638  </p>
1639
1640  <p>
1641    We demonstrate usage of FFmpeg, answer your questions and listen to
1642    your problems and wishes. <strong>If you have media files that cannot be
1643    processed correctly with FFmpeg, be sure to have a sample with you
1644    so we can have a look!</strong>
1645  </p>
1646  <p>
1647    For the first time in our CLT history, there will be an <strong>FFmpeg workshop</strong>!
1648    You can read the details <a href="https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2015/de/programm/beitrag/209">here</a>.
1649    The workshop is targeted at FFmpeg beginners. First the basics of
1650    multimedia will be covered. Thereafter you will learn how to use
1651    that knowledge and the FFmpeg CLI tools to analyse and process media
1652    files. The workshop is in German language only and prior registration
1653    is necessary. The workshop will be on Saturday starting at 10 o'clock.
1654  </p>
1655  <p>
1656    We are looking forward to meet you (again)!
1657  </p>
1658
1659  <h3 id="pr2.5">December 5, 2014, FFmpeg 2.5</h3>
1660  <p>
1661    We have made a new major release (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.5">2.5</a></b>)
1662    It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch from the 4th December.
1663    Please see the <b><a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=RELEASE_NOTES;hb=release/2.5">Release Notes</a></b> for a
1664    list of note-worthy changes.
1665  </p>
1666  <p>
1667    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
1668    current git master.
1669  </p>
1670
1671  <h3 id="ffmpeg_back_in_sid">October 10, 2014, FFmpeg is in Debian unstable again</h3>
1672  <p>
1673    We wanted you to know there are
1674    <a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ffmpeg&amp;searchon=sourcenames&amp;suite=unstable&amp;section=main">
1675    FFmpeg packages in Debian unstable</a> again. <strong>A big thank-you
1676    to Andreas Cadhalpun and all the people that made it possible.</strong> It has been anything but simple.
1677  </p>
1678  <p>
1679    Unfortunately that was already the easy part of this news. The bad news is the packages probably won't
1680    migrate to Debian testing to be in the upcoming release codenamed jessie.
1681    <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763148">Read the argumentation over at Debian.</a>
1682  </p>
1683  <p>
1684    <strong>However things will come out in the end, we hope for your continued remarkable support!</strong>
1685  </p>
1686
1687  <h3 id="opw03">October 8, 2014, FFmpeg secured a place in OPW!</h3>
1688  <p>
1689    Thanks to a generous 6K USD donation by Samsung (Open Source Group),
1690    FFmpeg will be welcoming at least 1 "Outreach Program for Women" intern
1691    to work with our community for an initial period starting December 2014
1692    (through March 2015).
1693  </p>
1694
1695  <p>
1696    We all know FFmpeg is used by the industry, but even while there are
1697    countless products building on our code, it is not at all common for
1698    companies to step up and help us out when needed. So a big thank-you
1699    to Samsung and the OPW program committee!
1700  </p>
1701
1702  <p>
1703    If you are thinking on participating in OPW as an intern, please take
1704    a look at our <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/OPW/2014-12">OPW wiki page</a>
1705    for some initial guidelines. The page is still a work in progress, but
1706    there should be enough information there to get you started. If you, on
1707    the other hand, are thinking on sponsoring work on FFmpeg through the
1708    OPW program, please get in touch with us at [email protected]. With your
1709    help, we might be able to secure some extra intern spots for this round!
1710  </p>
1711
1712  <h3 id="pr2.4">September 15, 2014, FFmpeg 2.4</h3>
1713  <p>
1714    We have made a new major release (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.4">2.4</a></b>)
1715    It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch from the 14th September.
1716    Please see the <b><a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=RELEASE_NOTES;hb=release/2.4">Release Notes</a></b> for a
1717    list of note-worthy changes.
1718  </p>
1719  <p>
1720    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
1721    current git master.
1722  </p>
1723
1724  <h3 id="pr2.3.3">August 20, 2014, FFmpeg 2.3.3, 2.2.7, 1.2.8</h3>
1725  <p>
1726    We have made several new point releases (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.3">2.3.3</a>,
1727      <a href="download.html#release_2.2">2.2.7</a>,
1728      <a href="download.html#release_1.2">1.2.8</a></b>).
1729    They fix various bugs, as well as CVE-2014-5271 and CVE-2014-5272.
1730    Please see the changelog for more details.
1731  </p>
1732  <p>
1733    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
1734    current git master.
1735  </p>
1736
1737  <h3 id="opw02">July 29, 2014, Help us out securing our spot in OPW</h3>
1738  <p>
1739    Following our previous post regarding our participation on this year's
1740    OPW (Outreach Program for Women), we are now reaching out to our users
1741    (both individuals and companies) to help us gather the needed money to
1742    secure our spot in the program.<br>
1743    We need to put together 6K USD as a minimum but securing more funds would
1744    help us towards getting more than one intern.<br>
1745    You can donate by credit card using
1746    <a href="https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=56226">
1747    Click&amp;Pledge</a> and selecting the "OPW" option. If you would like to
1748    donate by money transfer or by check, please get in touch by
1749    <a href="mailto:[email protected]">e-mail</a> and we will get back to you
1750    with instructions.<br>Thanks!
1751  </p>
1752
1753  <h3 id="newweb">July 20, 2014, New website</h3>
1754  <p>
1755    The FFmpeg project is proud to announce a brand new version of the website
1756    made by <a href="http://db0.fr">db0</a>. While this was initially motivated
1757    by the need for a larger menu, the whole website ended up being redesigned,
1758    and most pages got reworked to ease navigation. We hope you'll enjoy
1759    browsing it.
1760  </p>
1761
1762  <h3 id="pr2.3">July 17, 2014, FFmpeg 2.3</h3>
1763  <p>
1764    We have made a new major release (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.3">2.3</a></b>)
1765    It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch from the 16th July.
1766    Please see the <b><a href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=RELEASE_NOTES;hb=489d066">Release Notes</a></b> for a
1767    list of note-worthy changes.
1768  </p>
1769  <p>
1770    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
1771    current git master.
1772  </p>
1773
1774  <h3 id="opw01">July 3, 2014, FFmpeg and the Outreach Program For Women</h3>
1775  <p>
1776    FFmpeg has started the process to become an OPW includer organization for the
1777    next round of the program, with internships starting December 9. The
1778    <a href="https://gnome.org/opw/">OPW</a> aims to "Help women (cis and trans)
1779    and genderqueer to get involved in free and open source software". Part of the
1780    process requires securing funds to support at least one internship (6K USD), so
1781    if you were holding on your donation to FFmpeg, this is a great chance for you
1782    to come forward, get in touch and help both the project and a great initiative!
1783  </p>
1784  <p>
1785    We have set up an <a href="mailto:[email protected]">email address</a> you can use
1786    to contact us about donations and general inquires regarding our participation
1787    in the program. Hope to hear from you soon!
1788  </p>
1789
1790  <h3 id="pr2.2.4">June 29, 2014, FFmpeg 2.2.4, 2.1.5, 2.0.5, 1.2.7, 1.1.12, 0.10.14</h3>
1791  <p>
1792    We have made several new point releases (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.2">2.2.4</a>,
1793      <a href="download.html#release_2.1">2.1.5</a>,
1794      <a href="download.html#release_2.0">2.0.5</a>,
1795      <a href="download.html#release_1.2">1.2.7</a>,
1796      <a href="download.html#release_1.1">1.1.12</a>,
1797      <a href="download.html#release_0.10">0.10.14</a></b>).
1798    They fix a
1799    <a href="http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/06/raising-lazarus-20-year-old-bug-that.html">security issue in the LZO implementation</a>,
1800    as well as several other bugs. See the git log for details.
1801  </p>
1802  <p>
1803    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
1804    current git master.
1805  </p>
1806
1807
1808  <h3 id="lt2014">May 1, 2014, LinuxTag</h3>
1809  <p>
1810    Once again FFmpeg will be represented at LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany. The event will
1811    take place from 8th to 10th of May. Please note that this year's LinuxTag is at a
1812    different location closer to the city center.
1813  </p>
1814
1815  <p>
1816    We will have a shared booth with XBMC and VideoLAN.
1817    <b>
1818      If you have media files that cannot be processed correctly with
1819      FFmpeg, be sure to have a sample with you so we can have a look!
1820    </b>
1821  </p>
1822
1823  <p>
1824    More information about LinuxTag can be found <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2014/">here</a>
1825  </p>
1826
1827  <p>
1828    We are looking forward to see you in Berlin!
1829  </p>
1830
1831  <h3 id="heartbleed">April 18, 2014, OpenSSL Heartbeat bug</h3>
1832  <p>
1833    Our server hosting the Trac issue tracker was vulnerable to the attack
1834    against OpenSSL known as "heartbleed". The OpenSSL software library
1835    was updated on 7th of April, shortly after the vulnerability was publicly
1836    disclosed. We have changed the private keys (and certificates) for all
1837    FFmpeg servers. The details were sent to the mailing lists by
1838    Alexander Strasser, who is part of the project server team. Here is a
1839    link to the user mailing list
1840    <a href="https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2014-April/020968.html">archive</a>
1841    .
1842  </p><p>
1843    We encourage you to read up on
1844    <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html">"OpenSSL heartbleed"</a>.
1845    <b>It is possible that login data for the issue tracker was exposed to
1846      people exploiting this security hole. You might want to change your password
1847      in the tracker and everywhere else you used that same password.</b>
1848  </p>
1849
1850  <h3 id="pr2.2.1">April 11, 2014, FFmpeg 2.2.1</h3>
1851  <p>
1852    We have made a new point releases (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.2">2.2.1</a></b>).
1853    It contains bug fixes for Tickets #2893, #3432, #3469, #3486, #3495 and #3540 as well as
1854    several other fixes.
1855    See the git log for details.
1856  </p>
1857
1858  <h3 id="pr2.2">March 24, 2014, FFmpeg 2.2</h3>
1859  <p>
1860    We have made a new major release (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.2">2.2</a></b>)
1861    It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch from 1st March.
1862    A partial list of new stuff is below:
1863  </p>
1864  <pre>
1865    - HNM version 4 demuxer and video decoder
1866    - Live HDS muxer
1867    - setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions
1868    - elbg filter
1869    - string validation in ffprobe
1870    - support for decoding through VDPAU in ffmpeg (the -hwaccel option)
1871    - complete Voxware MetaSound decoder
1872    - remove mp3_header_compress bitstream filter
1873    - Windows resource files for shared libraries
1874    - aeval filter
1875    - stereoscopic 3d metadata handling
1876    - WebP encoding via libwebp
1877    - ATRAC3+ decoder
1878    - VP8 in Ogg demuxing
1879    - side &amp; metadata support in NUT
1880    - framepack filter
1881    - XYZ12 rawvideo support in NUT
1882    - Exif metadata support in WebP decoder
1883    - OpenGL device
1884    - Use metadata_header_padding to control padding in ID3 tags (currently used in
1885    MP3, AIFF, and OMA files), FLAC header, and the AVI "junk" block.
1886    - Mirillis FIC video decoder
1887    - Support DNx444
1888    - libx265 encoder
1889    - dejudder filter
1890    - Autodetect VDA like all other hardware accelerations
1891  </pre>
1892  <p>
1893    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
1894    current git master.
1895  </p>
1896
1897  <h3 id="clt2014">February 3, 2014, Chemnitzer Linux-Tage</h3>
1898  <p>
1899    We happily announce that FFmpeg will be represented at `Chemnitzer Linux-Tage'
1900    in Chemnitz, Germany. The event will take place on 15th and 16th of March.
1901  </p>
1902
1903  <p>
1904    More information can be found <a href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2014/en/info/">here</a>
1905  </p>
1906
1907  <p>
1908    We invite you to visit us at our booth located in the Linux-Live area!
1909    There we will demonstrate usage of FFmpeg, answer your questions and listen to
1910    your problems and wishes.
1911  </p>
1912  <p>
1913    <b>
1914      If you have media files that cannot be processed correctly with
1915      FFmpeg, be sure to have a sample with you so we can have a look!
1916    </b>
1917  </p>
1918  <p>
1919    We are looking forward to meet you (again)!
1920  </p>
1921
1922
1923  <h3 id="trac_sec">February 9, 2014, trac.ffmpeg.org / trac.mplayerhq.hu Security Breach</h3>
1924  <p>
1925    The server on which FFmpeg and MPlayer Trac issue trackers were
1926    installed was compromised. The affected server was taken offline
1927    and has been replaced and all software reinstalled.
1928    FFmpeg Git, releases, FATE, web and mailinglists are on other servers
1929    and were not affected. We believe that the original compromise happened
1930    to a server, unrelated to FFmpeg and MPlayer, several months ago.
1931    That server was used as a source to clone the VM that we recently moved
1932    Trac to. It is not known if anyone used the backdoor that was found.
1933  </p>
1934  <p>
1935    We recommend all users to change their passwords.
1936    <b>Especially users who use a password on Trac that they also use
1937      elsewhere, should change that password at least elsewhere.</b>
1938  </p>
1939
1940
1941  <h3 id="ffmpeg_rfp">November 12, 2013, FFmpeg RFP in Debian</h3>
1942  <p>
1943    Since the splitting of Libav the Debian/Ubuntu maintainers have followed
1944    the Libav fork. Many people have requested the packaging of ffmpeg in
1945    Debian, as it is more feature-complete and in many cases less buggy.
1946  </p>
1947  <p>
1948    <a href="http://cynic.cc/blog/">Rogério Brito</a>, a Debian developer,
1949    has proposed a Request For Package (RFP) in the Debian bug tracking
1950    system.
1951  </p>
1952  <p>
1953    Please let the Debian and Ubuntu developers know that you support packaging
1954    of the real FFmpeg! See Debian <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729203">ticket #729203</a>
1955    for more details.
1956  </p>
1957
1958  <h3 id="pr2.1">October 28, 2013, FFmpeg 2.1</h3>
1959  <p>
1960    We have made a new major release (<b><a href="download.html#release_2.1">2.1</a></b>)
1961    It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch from 28th October.
1962    A partial list of new stuff is below:
1963  </p>
1964  <pre>
1965    - aecho filter
1966    - perspective filter ported from libmpcodecs
1967    - ffprobe -show_programs option
1968    - compand filter
1969    - RTMP seek support
1970    - when transcoding with ffmpeg (i.e. not streamcopying), -ss is now accurate
1971    even when used as an input option. Previous behavior can be restored with
1972    the -noaccurate_seek option.
1973    - ffmpeg -t option can now be used for inputs, to limit the duration of
1974    data read from an input file
1975    - incomplete Voxware MetaSound decoder
1976    - read EXIF metadata from JPEG
1977    - DVB teletext decoder
1978    - phase filter ported from libmpcodecs
1979    - w3fdif filter
1980    - Opus support in Matroska
1981    - FFV1 version 1.3 is stable and no longer experimental
1982    - FFV1: YUVA(444,422,420) 9, 10 and 16 bit support
1983    - changed DTS stream id in lavf mpeg ps muxer from 0x8a to 0x88, to be
1984    more consistent with other muxers.
1985    - adelay filter
1986    - pullup filter ported from libmpcodecs
1987    - ffprobe -read_intervals option
1988    - Lossless and alpha support for WebP decoder
1989    - Error Resilient AAC syntax (ER AAC LC) decoding
1990    - Low Delay AAC (ER AAC LD) decoding
1991    - mux chapters in ASF files
1992    - SFTP protocol (via libssh)
1993    - libx264: add ability to encode in YUVJ422P and YUVJ444P
1994    - Fraps: use BT.709 colorspace by default for yuv, as reference fraps decoder does
1995    - make decoding alpha optional for prores, ffv1 and vp6 by setting
1996    the skip_alpha flag.
1997    - ladspa wrapper filter
1998    - native VP9 decoder
1999    - dpx parser
2000    - max_error_rate parameter in ffmpeg
2001    - PulseAudio output device
2002    - ReplayGain scanner
2003    - Enhanced Low Delay AAC (ER AAC ELD) decoding (no LD SBR support)
2004    - Linux framebuffer output device
2005    - HEVC decoder, raw HEVC demuxer, HEVC demuxing in TS, Matroska and MP4
2006    - mergeplanes filter
2007  </pre>
2008  <p>
2009    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
2010    current git master.
2011  </p>
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