2 - DV50 AKA DVCPRO50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
3 - TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
4 - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
5 - Sierra Online audio file demuxer and decoder
6 - Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
7 - Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
8 - Electronic Arts Multimedia (WVE/UV2/etc.) file demuxer
9 - Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
12 - Nullsoft Video (NSV) file demuxer
13 - Shorten audio decoder
15 - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) decoder
16 - Winnov WNV1 video decoder
17 - Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) decoder
18 - Indeo 2 video decoder
19 - Fraps FPS1 video decoder
20 - Snow video encoder/decoder
21 - Sonic audio encoder/decoder
22 - Vorbis audio encoder/decoder
23 - Macromedia ADPCM decoder
24 - Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
25 - support for decoding FLX and DTA extensions in FLIC files
26 - H.264 custom quantization matrices support
27 - ffserver fixed, it should now be usable again
29 - Real Cooker audio decoder
30 - TrueSpeech audio decoder
31 - WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
32 - RealAudio 14.4 and 28.8 decoders fixed
33 - JPEG-LS encoder and decoder
34 - CamStudio video decoder
35 - build system improvements
36 - tabs and trailing whitespace removed from the codebase
37 - AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
38 - ADTS AAC file reading and writing
39 - Creative VOC file reading and writing
40 - American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
41 - Zip Blocks Motion Video decoder and encoder
42 - Improved Theora/VP3 decoder
43 - True Audio (TTA) decoder
44 - AVS demuxer and video decoder
45 - Smacker demuxer and decoder
46 - NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTjpeg decoder
48 - MPEG-2 intra vlc support
49 - MPEG-2 4:2:2 encoder
50 - Flash Screen Video decoder
55 - VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
58 - VMware video decoder
61 - WavPack lossless audio decoder
62 - Targa (.TGA) picture decoder
63 - Delphine Software .cin demuxer/audio and video decoder
64 - Tiertex .seq demuxer/video decoder
66 - TIFF picture encoder and decoder
70 - Flash Screen Video encoder
71 - Theora encoding via libtheora
74 - GSM-MS encoder and decoder
76 - DXA demuxer and decoder
78 - Gamecube movie (.THP) playback system
79 - Blackfin optimizations
80 - Interplay C93 demuxer and video decoder
81 - Bethsoft VID demuxer and video decoder
85 - RoQ muxer, audio encoder
86 - Renderware TXD demuxer and decoder
87 - extern C declarations for C++ removed from headers
88 - sws_flags command line option
94 - DV encoder, DV muxer
95 - Microsoft RLE video decoder
96 - Microsoft Video-1 decoder
97 - Apple Animation (RLE) decoder
98 - Apple Graphics (SMC) decoder
99 - Apple Video (RPZA) decoder
101 - Sega FILM (CPK) file demuxer
102 - Westwood multimedia support (VQA & AUD files)
103 - Id Quake II CIN playback support
105 - FLIC playback support
106 - RealVideo 2.0 (RV20) decoder
107 - Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK) video decoder
108 - Sierra VMD demuxer and video decoder
109 - MSZH and ZLIB decoder support
113 - rate distortion optimal cbp support
114 - rate distorted optimal ac prediction for MPEG-4
115 - rate distorted optimal lambda->qp support
116 - AAC encoding with libfaac
117 - Sunplus JPEG codec (SP5X) support
118 - use Lagrange multipler instead of QP for ratecontrol
119 - Theora/VP3 decoding support
120 - XA and ADX ADPCM codecs
121 - export MPEG-2 active display area / pan scan
122 - Add support for configuring with IBM XLC
123 - floating point AAN DCT
124 - initial support for zygo video (not complete)
126 - new audio/video parser API
128 - av_read_frame() and av_seek_frame() support
129 - missing last frame fixes
130 - seek by mouse in ffplay
131 - noise reduction of DCT coefficients
132 - H.263 OBMC & 4MV support
133 - H.263 alternative inter vlc support
135 - H.263 slice structured mode
136 - interlaced DCT support for MPEG-2 encoding
137 - stuffing to stay above min_bitrate
138 - MB type & QP visualization
139 - frame stepping for ffplay
140 - interlaced motion estimation
141 - alternate scantable support
142 - SVCD scan offset support
145 - quantizer noise shaping
146 - G.726 ADPCM audio codec
148 - multithreaded/SMP motion estimation
149 - multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263
150 - multithreaded/SMP decoding for MPEG-2
152 - Metrowerks CodeWarrior suppport
153 - H.263+ custom pcf support
154 - nicer output for 'ffmpeg -formats'
156 - SGI image format, encoding and decoding
157 - H.264 loop filter support
158 - H.264 CABAC support
159 - nicer looking arrows for the motion vector vissualization
160 - improved VCD support
161 - audio timestamp drift compensation
162 - MPEG-2 YUV 422/444 support
163 - polyphase kaiser windowed sinc and blackman nuttall windowed sinc audio resample
164 - better image scaling
166 - correctly interleave packets during encoding
167 - VIS optimized motion compensation
168 - intra_dc_precision>0 encoding support
169 - support reuse of motion vectors/MB types/field select values of the source video
170 - more accurate deblock filter
172 - many optimizations and bugfixes
176 - MPEG-2 video encoding (Michael)
177 - Id RoQ playback subsystem (Mike Melanson and Tim Ferguson)
178 - Wing Commander III Movie (.mve) file playback subsystem (Mike Melanson
180 - Xan DPCM audio decoder (Mario Brito)
181 - Interplay MVE playback subsystem (Mike Melanson)
182 - Duck DK3 and DK4 ADPCM audio decoders (Mike Melanson)
186 - RealAudio 1.0 (14_4) and 2.0 (28_8) native decoders. Author unknown, code from mplayerhq
187 (originally from public domain player for Amiga at http://www.honeypot.net/audio)
188 - current version now also compiles with older GCC (Fabrice)
189 - 4X multimedia playback system including 4xm file demuxer (Mike
190 Melanson), and 4X video and audio codecs (Michael)
191 - Creative YUV (CYUV) decoder (Mike Melanson)
192 - FFV1 codec (our very simple lossless intra only codec, compresses much better
193 than HuffYUV) (Michael)
194 - ASV1 (Asus), H.264, Intel indeo3 codecs have been added (various)
195 - tiny PNG encoder and decoder, tiny GIF decoder, PAM decoder (PPM with
196 alpha support), JPEG YUV colorspace support. (Fabrice Bellard)
197 - ffplay has been replaced with a newer version which uses SDL (optionally)
198 for multiplatform support (Fabrice)
199 - Sorenson Version 3 codec (SVQ3) support has been added (decoding only) - donated
201 - AMR format has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
202 - 3GP support has been added (Johannes Carlsson)
203 - VP3 codec has been added (Mike Melanson)
204 - more MPEG-1/2 fixes
205 - better multiplatform support, MS Visual Studio fixes (various)
206 - AltiVec optimizations (Magnus Damn and others)
207 - SH4 processor support has been added (BERO)
208 - new public interfaces (avcodec_get_pix_fmt) (Roman Shaposhnick)
209 - VOB streaming support (Brian Foley)
210 - better MP3 autodetection (Andriy Rysin)
211 - qpel encoding (Michael)
212 - 4mv+b frames encoding finally fixed (Michael)
213 - chroma ME (Michael)
214 - 5 comparison functions for ME (Michael)
215 - B-frame encoding speedup (Michael)
216 - WMV2 codec (unfinished - Michael)
217 - user specified diamond size for EPZS (Michael)
218 - Playstation STR playback subsystem, still experimental (Mike and Michael)
219 - ASV2 codec (Michael)
220 - CLJR decoder (Alex)
222 .. And lots more new enhancements and fixes.
226 - completely new integer only MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoder rewritten
228 - Recoded DCT and motion vector search with gcc (no longer depends on nasm)
229 - fix quantization bug in AC3 encoder
230 - added PCM codecs and format. Corrected WAV/AVI/ASF PCM issues
231 - added prototype ffplay program
232 - added GOB header parsing on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
233 - bug fix on MCBPC tables of H.263 (Juanjo)
234 - bug fix on DC coefficients of H.263 (Juanjo)
235 - added Advanced Prediction Mode on H.263/H.263+ decoder (Juanjo)
236 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in QuickTime files (Juanjo)
237 - now we can decode H.263 streams found in VIVO v1 files(Juanjo)
238 - preliminary RTP "friendly" mode for H.263/H.263+ coding. (Juanjo)
239 - added GOB header for H.263/H.263+ coding on RTP mode (Juanjo)
240 - now H.263 picture size is returned on the first decoded frame (Juanjo)
241 - added first regression tests
242 - added MPEG-2 TS demuxer
243 - new demux API for libav
244 - more accurate and faster IDCT (Michael)
245 - faster and entropy-controlled motion search (Michael)
246 - two pass video encoding (Michael)
247 - new video rate control (Michael)
248 - added MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEGV2 and WMV1 support (Michael)
249 - great performance improvement of video encoders and decoders (Michael)
250 - new and faster bit readers and vlc parsers (Michael)
251 - high quality encoding mode: tries all macroblock/VLC types (Michael)
252 - added DV video decoder
253 - preliminary RTP/RTSP support in ffserver and libavformat
254 - H.263+ AIC decoding/encoding support (Juanjo)
255 - VCD MPEG-PS mode (Juanjo)
256 - PSNR stuff (Juanjo)
257 - simple stats output (Juanjo)
258 - 16-bit and 15-bit RGB/BGR/GBR support (Bisqwit)
262 - some header fixes (Zdenek Kabelac <kabi at informatics.muni.cz>)
263 - many MMX optimizations (Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru>)
264 - added configure system (actually a small shell script)
265 - added MPEG audio layer 1/2/3 decoding using LGPL'ed mpglib by
266 Michael Hipp (temporary solution - waiting for integer only
268 - fixed VIDIOCSYNC interrupt
269 - added Intel H.263 decoding support ('I263' AVI fourCC)
270 - added Real Video 1.0 decoding (needs further testing)
271 - simplified image formats again. Added PGM format (=grey
272 pgm). Renamed old PGM to PGMYUV.
273 - fixed msmpeg4 slice issues (tell me if you still find problems)
274 - fixed OpenDivX bugs with newer versions (added VOL header decoding)
275 - added support for MPlayer interface
276 - added macroblock skip optimization
277 - added MJPEG decoder
278 - added mmx/mmxext IDCT from libmpeg2
279 - added pgmyuvpipe, ppm, and ppm_pipe formats (original patch by Celer
280 <celer at shell.scrypt.net>)
281 - added pixel format conversion layer (e.g. for MJPEG or PPM)
282 - added deinterlacing option
284 - MPEG-4 vol header fixes (Jonathan Marsden <snmjbm at pacbell.net>)
285 - ARM optimizations (Lionel Ulmer <lionel.ulmer at free.fr>).
286 - Windows porting of file converter
287 - added MJPEG raw format (input/ouput)
288 - added JPEG image format support (input/output)
292 - fixed some std header definitions (Bjorn Lindgren
293 <bjorn.e.lindgren at telia.com>).
294 - added MPEG demuxer (MPEG-1 and 2 compatible).
296 - added prototype RM demuxer
297 - added AC3 decoding (done with libac3 by Aaron Holtzman)
298 - added decoding codec parameter guessing (.e.g. for MPEG, because the
299 header does not include them)
300 - fixed header generation in MPEG-1, AVI and ASF muxer: wmplayer can now
301 play them (only tested video)
302 - fixed H.263 white bug
303 - fixed phase rounding in img resample filter
304 - add MMX code for polyphase img resample filter
305 - added CPU autodetection
306 - added generic title/author/copyright/comment string handling (ASF and RM
308 - added SWF demux to extract MP3 track (not usable yet because no MP3
310 - added fractional frame rate support
311 - codecs are no longer searched by read_header() (should fix ffserver
316 - BGR24 patch (initial patch by Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq at amsat.org>)
317 - fixed raw yuv output
318 - added motion rounding support in MPEG-4
319 - fixed motion bug rounding in MSMPEG4
320 - added B-frame handling in video core
321 - added full MPEG-1 decoding support
322 - added partial (frame only) MPEG-2 support
323 - changed the FOURCC code for H.263 to "U263" to be able to see the
324 +AVI/H.263 file with the UB Video H.263+ decoder. MPlayer works with
325 this +codec ;) (JuanJo).
326 - Halfpel motion estimation after MB type selection (JuanJo)
327 - added pgm and .Y.U.V output format
328 - suppressed 'img:' protocol. Simply use: /tmp/test%d.[pgm|Y] as input or
330 - added pgmpipe I/O format (original patch from Martin Aumueller
331 <lists at reserv.at>, but changed completely since we use a format
332 instead of a protocol)
336 - added H.263/MPEG-4/MSMPEG4 decoding support. MPEG-4 decoding support
337 (for OpenDivX) is almost complete: 8x8 MVs and rounding are
338 missing. MSMPEG4 support is complete.
339 - added prototype MPEG-1 decoder. Only I- and P-frames handled yet (it
340 can decode ffmpeg MPEGs :-)).
341 - added libavcodec API documentation (see apiexample.c).
342 - fixed image polyphase bug (the bottom of some images could be
344 - added support for non clipped motion vectors (decoding only)
345 and image sizes non-multiple of 16
346 - added support for AC prediction (decoding only)
347 - added file overwrite confirmation (can be disabled with -y)
348 - added custom size picture to H.263 using H.263+ (Juanjo)
352 - added MSMPEG4 (aka DivX) compatible encoder. Changed default codec
353 of AVI and ASF to DIV3.
354 - added -me option to set motion estimation method
355 (default=log). suppressed redundant -hq option.
356 - added options -acodec and -vcodec to force a given codec (useful for
359 - improved dct_quantize speed
360 - factorized some motion estimation code
364 - removing grab code from ffserver and moved it to ffmpeg. Added
365 multistream support to ffmpeg.
366 - added timeshifting support for live feeds (option ?date=xxx in the
368 - added high quality image resize code with polyphase filter (need
369 mmx/see optimisation). Enable multiple image size support in ffserver.
370 - added multi live feed support in ffserver
371 - suppressed master feature from ffserver (it should be done with an
372 external program which opens the .ffm url and writes it to another
374 - added preliminary support for video stream parsing (WAV and AVI half
375 done). Added proper support for audio/video file conversion in
377 - added preliminary support for video file sending from ffserver
378 - redesigning I/O subsystem: now using URL based input and output
380 - added WAV format support
381 - added "tty user interface" to ffmpeg to stop grabbing gracefully
382 - added MMX/SSE optimizations to SAD (Sums of Absolutes Differences)
383 (Juan J. Sierralta P. a.k.a. "Juanjo" <juanjo at atmlab.utfsm.cl>)
384 - added MMX DCT from mpeg2_movie 1.5 (Juanjo)
385 - added new motion estimation algorithms, log and phods (Juanjo)
386 - changed directories: libav for format handling, libavcodec for
391 - added stereo in MPEG audio encoder
395 - added 'high quality' mode which use motion vectors. It can be used in
396 real time at low resolution.
397 - fixed rounding problems which caused quality problems at high
398 bitrates and large GOP size
400 version 0.3.2: small fixes
405 version 0.3.1: added avi/divx support
408 - added MPEG-4 codec compatible with OpenDivX. It is based on the H.263 codec
409 - added sound for flash format (not tested)
411 version 0.3: initial public release