--- Changelog | 3 ++- RELEASE | 2 +- doc/RELEASE_NOTES | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog index b9b5f26..de652f3 100644 --- a/Changelog +++ b/Changelog @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release, releases are sorted from youngest to oldest. -version <next>: +version 0.8_beta1: + - BWF muxer - Flash Screen Video 2 decoder - ffplay/ffprobe/ffserver renamed to avplay/avprobe/avserver diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index eb49d7c..8e0f8bc 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1 +1 @@ -0.7 +0.8_beta1 diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES index 97875e9..fffa120 100644 --- a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,22 +1,23 @@ Release Notes ============= -* 0.7 "The Big Bump" June, 2011 +* 0.8 "Forbidden Fruit" General notes ------------- -This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs, -including VP8, H.263 and H.264. Additionally, there has been a major cleanup of -both internal and external APIs. For this reason, the major versions of all -libraries have been bumped. On the one hand, this means that 0.7 can be installed -side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand, in order to benefit -from the new features, applications need to be recompiled. +This release continues the API cleanups that have begun with the +previous release. This time, our work on the command-line frontend has +resulted has seen major revisions to its interface. In order to not +interfere with existing scripts and applications, we have chosen to +introduce 'avconv', and keep the traditional 'ffmpeg' frontend for +end-user's convenience. Please see the Changelog file for details how +'avconv' differs from 'ffmpeg'. -Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to, -AMR-WB, single stream LATM/LOAS, G.722 ADPCM, a native VP8 decoder -and HE-AACv2. Additionally, many new de/muxers such as WebM in Matroska, Apple -HTTP Live Streaming, SAP, IEC 61937 (S/PDIF) have been added. +Additionally, this release introduces a number of new interesting codecs +such as the Apple Prores, Flash Screen Video 2 and Windows Media Image, +and muxers such as LATM or CELT in Ogg, among many others. Moreover, our +H.264 has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material. See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. @@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ report against the development code following the usual bug reporting guidelines API changes ----------- -Please see the file doc/APIchanges for programmer-centric information. Note that a + lot of long-time deprecated APIs have been removed. Also, a number of additional APIs have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next release. @@ -38,15 +39,10 @@ APIs have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next release. Other notable changes --------------------- -- many ARM NEON optimizations -- libswscale cleanup started, optimizations should become easier in the future -- nonfree libfaad support for AAC decoding removed -- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding -- 9/10bit H.264 decoding -- Win64 Assembler support -- native MMSH/MMST support -- Windows TV demuxing -- native AMR-WB decoding -- native GSM-MS decoding -- SMPTE 302M decoding -- AVS encoding +- All codecs and formats now support private options, see the + documentation for details +- because of the above, the .ffpreset files have been dropped. the + libx264 wrapper supports the private options -presets, -tune and + -profile private options as replacement +- many additional ARM NEON, MMX and AVX optimizations +- libswscale clenaups continue -- 1.7.5.4 _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
