On Sa, Nov 19, 2011 at 19:30:24 (CET), Anton Khirnov wrote: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:32:02 +0100, Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> > wrote: >> --- >> 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'. > > This release continues the API cleanups that have begun with the > previous release. While it is binary compatible with 0.7, many parts of > the public API were deprecated and will be removed in the git master and > later releases. Please consult the doc/APIchanges file to see intended > replacements for the deprecated APIs. > > Furthermore, our work on the 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has resulted in > major revisions to its interface. In order to not break existing scripts > and applications, we have chosen to introduce a new tool called > 'avconv', and keep the traditional 'ffmpeg' frontend for end-user's > convenience. Please see the Changelog file for details how 'avconv' > differs from 'ffmpeg'.
thanks, reads good! >> >> -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. > > H.264 decoder. You can also mention 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 encoding with > libx264. added >> >> 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. > > ?? > This change confuses me. > > Also, nothing has been removed. 0.8 will be binary and API compatible > with 0.7 (unless someone disagrees). Indeed, changed to something less confusing. >> >> @@ -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 > > I'm confused, how is this list different from changelog? Shouldn't this > stuff go there instead? > > Also, presets are supported again and used by vp8. Indeed, replaced by a reference to the Changelog file regards, Reinhard -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
