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version <next>:

- yasm support dropped, users need to use nasm

- VVC VAAPI decoder

- RealVideo 6.0 decoder

- OpenMAX encoders deprecated

- libx265 alpha layer encoding

- ADPCM IMA Xbox decoder

version 7.1:

- Raw Captions with Time (RCWT) closed caption demuxer

- LC3/LC3plus decoding/encoding using external library liblc3

- ffmpeg CLI filtergraph chaining

- LC3/LC3plus demuxer and muxer

- pad_vaapi, drawbox_vaapi filters

- vf_scale supports secondary ref input and framesync options

- vf_scale2ref deprecated

- qsv_params option added for QSV encoders

- VVC decoder compatible with DVB test content

- xHE-AAC decoder

- removed DEC Alpha DSP and support code

- VVC encoding support via libvvenc

- perlin video source

- D3D12VA HEVC encoder

- Cropping metadata parsing and writing in Matroska and MP4/MOV de/muxers

- Intel QSV-accelerated VVC decoding

- MediaCodec AAC/AMR-NB/AMR-WB/MP3 decoding

- YUV colorspace negotiation for codecs and filters, obsoleting the

YUVJ pixel format

- Vulkan H.264 encoder

- Vulkan H.265 encoder

- stream specifiers in fftools can now match by stream disposition

- LCEVC enhancement data exporting in H.26x and MP4/ISOBMFF

- LCEVC filter

- MV-HEVC decoding

- minor stream specifier syntax changes:

- when matching by metadata (:m:<key>:<val>), the colon character

in keys or values now has to be backslash-escaped

- in optional maps (-map ....?) with a metadata-matching stream specifier,

the value has to be separated from the question mark by a colon, i.e.

-map ....:m:<key>:<val>:? (otherwise it would be ambiguous whether the

question mark is a part of <val> or not)

- multiple stream types in a single specifier (e.g. :s:s:0) now cause an

error, as such a specifier makes no sense

version 7.0:

- DXV DXT1 encoder

- LEAD MCMP decoder

- EVC decoding using external library libxevd

- EVC encoding using external library libxeve

- QOA decoder and demuxer

- aap filter

- demuxing, decoding, filtering, encoding, and muxing in the

ffmpeg CLI now all run in parallel

- enable gdigrab device to grab a window using the hwnd=HANDLER syntax

- IAMF raw demuxer and muxer

- D3D12VA hardware accelerated H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, MPEG-2 and VC1 decoding

- tiltandshift filter

- qrencode filter and qrencodesrc source

- quirc filter

- lavu/eval: introduce randomi() function in expressions

- VVC decoder (experimental)

- fsync filter

- Raw Captions with Time (RCWT) closed caption muxer

- ffmpeg CLI -bsf option may now be used for input as well as output

- ffmpeg CLI options may now be used as -/opt <path>, which is equivalent

to -opt <contents of file <path>>

- showinfo bitstream filter

- a C11-compliant compiler is now required; note that this requirement

will be bumped to C17 in the near future, so consider updating your

build environment if it lacks C17 support

- Change the default bitrate control method from VBR to CQP for QSV encoders.

- removed deprecated ffmpeg CLI options -psnr and -map_channel

- DVD-Video demuxer, powered by libdvdnav and libdvdread

- ffprobe -show_stream_groups option

- ffprobe (with -export_side_data film_grain) now prints film grain metadata

- AEA muxer

- ffmpeg CLI loopback decoders

- Support PacketTypeMetadata of PacketType in enhanced flv format

- ffplay with hwaccel decoding support (depends on vulkan renderer via libplacebo)

- dnn filter libtorch backend

- Android content URIs protocol

- AOMedia Film Grain Synthesis 1 (AFGS1)

- RISC-V optimizations for AAC, FLAC, JPEG-2000, LPC, RV4.0, SVQ, VC1, VP8, and more

- Loongarch optimizations for HEVC decoding

- Important AArch64 optimizations for HEVC

- IAMF support inside MP4/ISOBMFF

- Support for HEIF/AVIF still images and tiled still images

- Dolby Vision profile 10 support in AV1

- Support for Ambient Viewing Environment metadata in MP4/ISOBMFF

- HDR10 metadata passthrough when encoding with libx264, libx265, and libsvtav1

version 6.1:

- libaribcaption decoder

- Playdate video decoder and demuxer

- Extend VAAPI support for libva-win32 on Windows

- afireqsrc audio source filter

- arls filter

- ffmpeg CLI new option: -readrate_initial_burst

- zoneplate video source filter

- command support in the setpts and asetpts filters

- Vulkan decode hwaccel, supporting H264, HEVC and AV1

- color_vulkan filter

- bwdif_vulkan filter

- nlmeans_vulkan filter

- RivaTuner video decoder

- xfade_vulkan filter

- vMix video decoder

- Essential Video Coding parser, muxer and demuxer

- Essential Video Coding frame merge bsf

- bwdif_cuda filter

- Microsoft RLE video encoder

- Raw AC-4 muxer and demuxer

- Raw VVC bitstream parser, muxer and demuxer

- Bitstream filter for editing metadata in VVC streams

- Bitstream filter for converting VVC from MP4 to Annex B

- scale_vt filter for videotoolbox

- transpose_vt filter for videotoolbox

- support for the P_SKIP hinting to speed up libx264 encoding

- Support HEVC,VP9,AV1 codec in enhanced flv format

- apsnr and asisdr audio filters

- OSQ demuxer and decoder

- Support HEVC,VP9,AV1 codec fourcclist in enhanced rtmp protocol

- CRI USM demuxer

- ffmpeg CLI '-top' option deprecated in favor of the setfield filter

- VAAPI AV1 encoder

- ffprobe XML output schema changed to account for multiple

variable-fields elements within the same parent element

- ffprobe -output_format option added as an alias of -of

version 6.0:

- Radiance HDR image support

- ddagrab (Desktop Duplication) video capture filter

- ffmpeg -shortest_buf_duration option

- ffmpeg now requires threading to be built

- ffmpeg now runs every muxer in a separate thread

- Add new mode to cropdetect filter to detect crop-area based on motion vectors and edges

- VAAPI decoding and encoding for 10/12bit 422, 10/12bit 444 HEVC and VP9

- WBMP (Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap) image format

- a3dscope filter

- bonk decoder and demuxer

- Micronas SC-4 audio decoder

- LAF demuxer

- APAC decoder and demuxer

- Media 100i decoders

- DTS to PTS reorder bsf

- ViewQuest VQC decoder

- backgroundkey filter

- nvenc AV1 encoding support

- MediaCodec decoder via NDKMediaCodec

- MediaCodec encoder

- oneVPL support for QSV

- QSV AV1 encoder

- QSV decoding and encoding for 10/12bit 422, 10/12bit 444 HEVC and VP9

- showcwt multimedia filter

- corr video filter

- adrc audio filter

- afdelaysrc audio filter

- WADY DPCM decoder and demuxer

- CBD2 DPCM decoder

- ssim360 video filter

- ffmpeg CLI new options: -stats_enc_pre[_fmt], -stats_enc_post[_fmt],

-stats_mux_pre[_fmt]

- hstack_vaapi, vstack_vaapi and xstack_vaapi filters

- XMD ADPCM decoder and demuxer

- media100 to mjpegb bsf

- ffmpeg CLI new option: -fix_sub_duration_heartbeat

- WavArc decoder and demuxer

- CrystalHD decoders deprecated

- SDNS demuxer

- RKA decoder and demuxer

- filtergraph syntax in ffmpeg CLI now supports passing file contents

as option values, by prefixing option name with '/'

- hstack_qsv, vstack_qsv and xstack_qsv filters

version 5.1:

- add ipfs/ipns gateway support

- dialogue enhance audio filter

- dropped obsolete XvMC hwaccel

- pcm-bluray encoder

- DFPWM audio encoder/decoder and raw muxer/demuxer

- SITI filter

- Vizrt Binary Image encoder/decoder

- avsynctest source filter

- feedback video filter

- pixelize video filter

- colormap video filter

- colorchart video source filter

- multiply video filter

- PGS subtitle frame merge bitstream filter

- blurdetect filter

- tiltshelf audio filter

- QOI image format support

- ffprobe -o option

- virtualbass audio filter

- VDPAU AV1 hwaccel

- PHM image format support

- remap_opencl filter

- added chromakey_cuda filter

- added bilateral_cuda filter

version 5.0:

- ADPCM IMA Westwood encoder

- Westwood AUD muxer

- ADPCM IMA Acorn Replay decoder

- Argonaut Games CVG demuxer

- Argonaut Games CVG muxer

- Concatf protocol

- afwtdn audio filter

- audio and video segment filters

- Apple Graphics (SMC) encoder

- hsvkey and hsvhold video filters

- adecorrelate audio filter

- atilt audio filter

- grayworld video filter

- AV1 Low overhead bitstream format muxer

- swscale slice threading

- MSN Siren decoder

- scharr video filter

- apsyclip audio filter

- morpho video filter

- amr parser

- (a)latency filters

- GEM Raster image decoder

- asdr audio filter

- speex decoder

- limitdiff video filter

- xcorrelate video filter

- varblur video filter

- huesaturation video filter

- colorspectrum source video filter

- RTP packetizer for uncompressed video (RFC 4175)

- bitpacked encoder

- VideoToolbox VP9 hwaccel

- VideoToolbox ProRes hwaccel

- support loongarch.

- aspectralstats audio filter

- adynamicsmooth audio filter

- libplacebo filter

- vflip_vulkan, hflip_vulkan and flip_vulkan filters

- adynamicequalizer audio filter

- yadif_videotoolbox filter

- VideoToolbox ProRes encoder

- anlmf audio filter

- IMF demuxer (experimental)

version 4.4:

- AudioToolbox output device

- MacCaption demuxer

- PGX decoder

- chromanr video filter

- VDPAU accelerated HEVC 10/12bit decoding

- ADPCM IMA Ubisoft APM encoder

- Rayman 2 APM muxer

- AV1 encoding support SVT-AV1

- Cineform HD encoder

- ADPCM Argonaut Games encoder

- Argonaut Games ASF muxer

- AV1 Low overhead bitstream format demuxer

- RPZA video encoder

- ADPCM IMA MOFLEX decoder

- MobiClip FastAudio decoder

- MobiClip video decoder

- MOFLEX demuxer

- MODS demuxer

- PhotoCD decoder

- MCA demuxer

- AV1 decoder (Hardware acceleration used only)

- SVS demuxer

- Argonaut Games BRP demuxer

- DAT demuxer

- aax demuxer

- IPU decoder, parser and demuxer

- Intel QSV-accelerated AV1 decoding

- Argonaut Games Video decoder

- libwavpack encoder removed

- ACE demuxer

- AVS3 demuxer

- AVS3 video decoder via libuavs3d

- Cintel RAW decoder

- VDPAU accelerated VP9 10/12bit decoding

- afreqshift and aphaseshift filters

- High Voltage Software ADPCM encoder

- LEGO Racers ALP (.tun & .pcm) muxer

- AV1 VAAPI decoder

- adenorm filter

- ADPCM IMA AMV encoder

- AMV muxer

- NVDEC AV1 hwaccel

- DXVA2/D3D11VA hardware accelerated AV1 decoding

- speechnorm filter

- SpeedHQ encoder

- asupercut filter

- asubcut filter

- Microsoft Paint (MSP) version 2 decoder

- Microsoft Paint (MSP) demuxer

- AV1 monochrome encoding support via libaom >= 2.0.1

- asuperpass and asuperstop filter

- shufflepixels filter

- tmidequalizer filter

- estdif filter

- epx filter

- Dolby E parser

- shear filter

- kirsch filter

- colortemperature filter

- colorcontrast filter

- PFM encoder

- colorcorrect filter

- binka demuxer

- XBM parser

- xbm_pipe demuxer

- colorize filter

- CRI parser

- aexciter audio filter

- exposure video filter

- monochrome video filter

- setts bitstream filter

- vif video filter

- OpenEXR image encoder

- Simbiosis IMX decoder

- Simbiosis IMX demuxer

- Digital Pictures SGA demuxer and decoders

- TTML subtitle encoder and muxer

- identity video filter

- msad video filter

- gophers protocol

- RIST protocol via librist

version 4.3:

- v360 filter

- Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG decoding

- Intel QSV-accelerated VP9 decoding

- Support for TrueHD in mp4

- Support AMD AMF encoder on Linux (via Vulkan)

- IMM5 video decoder

- ZeroMQ protocol

- support Sipro ACELP.KELVIN decoding

- streamhash muxer

- sierpinski video source

- scroll video filter

- photosensitivity filter

- anlms filter

- arnndn filter

- bilateral filter

- maskedmin and maskedmax filters

- VDPAU VP9 hwaccel

- median filter

- QSV-accelerated VP9 encoding

- AV1 encoding support via librav1e

- AV1 frame merge bitstream filter

- AV1 Annex B demuxer

- axcorrelate filter

- mvdv decoder

- mvha decoder

- MPEG-H 3D Audio support in mp4

- thistogram filter

- freezeframes filter

- Argonaut Games ADPCM decoder

- Argonaut Games ASF demuxer

- xfade video filter

- xfade_opencl filter

- afirsrc audio filter source

- pad_opencl filter

- Simon & Schuster Interactive ADPCM decoder

- Real War KVAG demuxer

- CDToons video decoder

- siren audio decoder

- Rayman 2 ADPCM decoder

- Rayman 2 APM demuxer

- cas video filter

- High Voltage Software ADPCM decoder

- LEGO Racers ALP (.tun & .pcm) demuxer

- AMQP 0-9-1 protocol (RabbitMQ)

- Vulkan support

- avgblur_vulkan, overlay_vulkan, scale_vulkan and chromaber_vulkan filters

- ADPCM IMA MTF decoder

- FWSE demuxer

- DERF DPCM decoder

- DERF demuxer

- CRI HCA decoder

- CRI HCA demuxer

- overlay_cuda filter

- switch from AvxSynth to AviSynth+ on Linux

- mv30 decoder

- Expanded styling support for 3GPP Timed Text Subtitles (movtext)

- WebP parser

- tmedian filter

- maskedthreshold filter

- Support for muxing pcm and pgs in m2ts

- Cunning Developments ADPCM decoder

- asubboost filter

- Pro Pinball Series Soundbank demuxer

- pcm_rechunk bitstream filter

- scdet filter

- NotchLC decoder

- gradients source video filter

- MediaFoundation encoder wrapper

- untile filter

- Simon & Schuster Interactive ADPCM encoder

- PFM decoder

- dblur video filter

- Real War KVAG muxer

version 4.2:

- tpad filter

- AV1 decoding support through libdav1d

- dedot filter

- chromashift and rgbashift filters

- freezedetect filter

- truehd_core bitstream filter

- dhav demuxer

- PCM-DVD encoder

- GIF parser

- vividas demuxer

- hymt decoder

- anlmdn filter

- maskfun filter

- hcom demuxer and decoder

- ARBC decoder

- libaribb24 based ARIB STD-B24 caption support (profiles A and C)

- Support decoding of HEVC 4:4:4 content in nvdec and cuviddec

- removed libndi-newtek

- agm decoder

- KUX demuxer

- AV1 frame split bitstream filter

- lscr decoder

- lagfun filter

- asoftclip filter

- Support decoding of HEVC 4:4:4 content in vdpau

- colorhold filter

- xmedian filter

- asr filter

- showspatial multimedia filter

- VP4 video decoder

- IFV demuxer

- derain filter

- deesser filter

- mov muxer writes tracks with unspecified language instead of English by default

- add support for using clang to compile CUDA kernels

version 4.1:

- deblock filter

- tmix filter

- amplify filter

- fftdnoiz filter

- aderivative and aintegral audio filters

- pal75bars and pal100bars video filter sources

- support mbedTLS based TLS

- adeclick filter

- adeclip filter

- libtensorflow backend for DNN based filters like srcnn

- vc1 decoder is now bit-exact

- ATRAC9 decoder

- lensfun wrapper filter

- colorconstancy filter

- AVS2 video decoder via libdavs2

- IMM4 video decoder

- Brooktree ProSumer video decoder

- MatchWare Screen Capture Codec decoder

- WinCam Motion Video decoder

- 1D LUT filter (lut1d)

- RemotelyAnywhere Screen Capture decoder

- cue and acue filters

- support for AV1 in MP4

- transpose_npp filter

- AVS2 video encoder via libxavs2

- amultiply filter

- Block-Matching 3d (bm3d) denoising filter

- acrossover filter

- ilbc decoder

- audio denoiser as afftdn filter

- AV1 parser

- SER demuxer

- sinc audio filter source

- chromahold filter

- setparams filter

- vibrance filter

- decoding S12M timecode in h264

- xstack filter

- pcm vidc decoder and encoder

- (a)graphmonitor filter

- yadif_cuda filter

version 4.0:

- Bitstream filters for editing metadata in H.264, HEVC and MPEG-2 streams

- Dropped support for OpenJPEG versions 2.0 and below. Using OpenJPEG now

requires 2.1 (or later) and pkg-config.

- VDA dropped (use VideoToolbox instead)

- MagicYUV encoder

- Raw AMR-NB and AMR-WB demuxers

- TiVo ty/ty+ demuxer

- Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding

- PCE support for extended channel layouts in the AAC encoder

- native aptX and aptX HD encoder and decoder

- Raw aptX and aptX HD muxer and demuxer

- NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding

- Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter

- mcompand audio filter

- acontrast audio filter

- OpenCL overlay filter

- video mix filter

- video normalize filter

- audio lv2 wrapper filter

- VAAPI MJPEG and VP8 decoding

- AMD AMF H.264 and HEVC encoders

- video fillborders filter

- video setrange filter

- nsp demuxer

- support LibreSSL (via libtls)

- AVX-512/ZMM support added

- Dropped support for building for Windows XP. The minimum supported Windows

version is Windows Vista.

- deconvolve video filter

- entropy video filter

- hilbert audio filter source

- aiir audio filter

- aiff: add support for CD-ROM XA ADPCM

- Removed the ffserver program

- Removed the ffmenc and ffmdec muxer and demuxer

- VideoToolbox HEVC encoder and hwaccel

- VAAPI-accelerated ProcAmp (color balance), denoise and sharpness filters

- Add android_camera indev

- codec2 en/decoding via libcodec2

- muxer/demuxer for raw codec2 files and .c2 files

- Moved nvidia codec headers into an external repository.

They can be found at http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg/nv-codec-headers.git

- native SBC encoder and decoder

- drmeter audio filter

- hapqa_extract bitstream filter

- filter_units bitstream filter

- AV1 Support through libaom

- E-AC-3 dependent frames support

- bitstream filter for extracting E-AC-3 core

- Haivision SRT protocol via libsrt

- segafilm muxer

- vfrdet filter

- SRCNN filter

version 3.4:

- deflicker video filter

- doubleweave video filter

- lumakey video filter

- pixscope video filter

- oscilloscope video filter

- config.log and other configuration files moved into ffbuild/ directory

- update cuvid/nvenc headers to Video Codec SDK 8.0.14

- afir audio filter

- scale_cuda CUDA based video scale filter

- librsvg support for svg rasterization

- crossfeed audio filter

- spec compliant VP9 muxing support in MP4

- remove the libnut muxer/demuxer wrappers

- remove the libschroedinger encoder/decoder wrappers

- surround audio filter

- sofalizer filter switched to libmysofa

- Gremlin Digital Video demuxer and decoder

- headphone audio filter

- superequalizer audio filter

- roberts video filter

- The x86 assembler default switched from yasm to nasm, pass

--x86asmexe=yasm to configure to restore the old behavior.

- additional frame format support for Interplay MVE movies

- support for decoding through D3D11VA in ffmpeg

- limiter video filter

- libvmaf video filter

- Dolby E decoder and SMPTE 337M demuxer

- unpremultiply video filter

- tlut2 video filter

- floodfill video filter

- pseudocolor video filter

- raw G.726 muxer and demuxer, left- and right-justified

- NewTek NDI input/output device

- Some video filters with several inputs now use a common set of options:

blend, libvmaf, lut3d, overlay, psnr, ssim.

They must always be used by name.

- FITS demuxer and decoder

- FITS muxer and encoder

- add --disable-autodetect build switch

- drop deprecated qtkit input device (use avfoundation instead)

- despill video filter

- haas audio filter

- SUP/PGS subtitle muxer

- convolve video filter

- VP9 tile threading support

- KMS screen grabber

- CUDA thumbnail filter

- V4L2 mem2mem HW assisted codecs

- Rockchip MPP hardware decoding

- vmafmotion video filter

- use MIME type "G726" for little-endian G.726, "AAL2-G726" for big-endian G.726

version 3.3:

- CrystalHD decoder moved to new decode API

- add internal ebur128 library, remove external libebur128 dependency

- Pro-MPEG CoP #3-R2 FEC protocol

- premultiply video filter

- Support for spherical videos

- configure now fails if autodetect-libraries are requested but not found

- PSD Decoder

- 16.8 floating point pcm decoder

- 24.0 floating point pcm decoder

- Apple Pixlet decoder

- QDMC audio decoder

- NewTek SpeedHQ decoder

- MIDI Sample Dump Standard demuxer

- readeia608 filter

- Sample Dump eXchange demuxer

- abitscope multimedia filter

- Scenarist Closed Captions demuxer and muxer

- threshold filter

- midequalizer filter

- Optimal Huffman tables for (M)JPEG encoding

- VAAPI-accelerated MPEG-2 and VP8 encoding

- FM Screen Capture Codec decoder

- native Opus encoder

- ScreenPressor decoder

- incomplete ClearVideo decoder

- Intel QSV video scaling and deinterlacing filters

- Support MOV with multiple sample description tables

- XPM decoder

- Removed the legacy X11 screen grabber, use XCB instead

- MPEG-7 Video Signature filter

- Removed asyncts filter (use af_aresample instead)

- Intel QSV-accelerated VP8 video decoding

- VAAPI-accelerated deinterlacing

version 3.2:

- libopenmpt demuxer

- tee protocol

- Changed metadata print option to accept general urls

- Alias muxer for Ogg Video (.ogv)

- VP8 in Ogg muxing

- curves filter doesn't automatically insert points at x=0 and x=1 anymore

- 16-bit support in curves filter and selectivecolor filter

- OpenH264 decoder wrapper

- MediaCodec H.264/HEVC/MPEG-4/VP8/VP9 hwaccel

- True Audio (TTA) muxer

- crystalizer audio filter

- acrusher audio filter

- bitplanenoise video filter

- floating point support in als decoder

- fifo muxer

- maskedclamp filter

- hysteresis filter

- lut2 filter

- yuvtestsrc filter

- CUDA CUVID H.263/VP8/VP9/10 bit HEVC (Dithered) Decoding

- vaguedenoiser filter

- added threads option per filter instance

- weave filter

- gblur filter

- avgblur filter

- sobel and prewitt filter

- MediaCodec HEVC/MPEG-4/VP8/VP9 decoding

- Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) / TrueHD encoder

- Non-Local Means (nlmeans) denoising filter

- sdl2 output device and ffplay support

- sdl1 output device and sdl1 support removed

- extended mov edit list support

- libfaac encoder removed

- Matroska muxer now writes CRC32 elements by default in all Level 1 elements

- sidedata video and asidedata audio filter

- Changed mapping of rtp MIME type G726 to codec g726le.

- spec compliant VAAPI/DXVA2 VC-1 decoding of slices in frame-coded images

version 3.1:

- DXVA2-accelerated HEVC Main10 decoding

- fieldhint filter

- loop video filter and aloop audio filter

- Bob Weaver deinterlacing filter

- firequalizer filter

- datascope filter

- bench and abench filters

- ciescope filter

- protocol blacklisting API

- MediaCodec H264 decoding

- VC-2 HQ RTP payload format (draft v1) depacketizer and packetizer

- VP9 RTP payload format (draft v2) packetizer

- AudioToolbox audio decoders

- AudioToolbox audio encoders

- coreimage filter (GPU based image filtering on OSX)

- libdcadec removed

- bitstream filter for extracting DTS core

- ADPCM IMA DAT4 decoder

- musx demuxer

- aix demuxer

- remap filter

- hash and framehash muxers

- colorspace filter

- hdcd filter

- readvitc filter

- VAAPI-accelerated format conversion and scaling

- libnpp/CUDA-accelerated format conversion and scaling

- Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time decoder

- Wideband Single-bit Data (WSD) demuxer

- VAAPI-accelerated H.264/HEVC/MJPEG encoding

- DTS Express (LBR) decoder

- Generic OpenMAX IL encoder with support for Raspberry Pi

- IFF ANIM demuxer & decoder

- Direct Stream Transfer (DST) decoder

- loudnorm filter

- MTAF demuxer and decoder

- MagicYUV decoder

- OpenExr improvements (tile data and B44/B44A support)

- BitJazz SheerVideo decoder

- CUDA CUVID H264/HEVC decoder

- 10-bit depth support in native utvideo decoder

- libutvideo wrapper removed

- YUY2 Lossless Codec decoder

- VideoToolbox H.264 encoder

version 3.0:

- Common Encryption (CENC) MP4 encoding and decoding support

- DXV decoding

- extrastereo filter

- ocr filter

- alimiter filter

- stereowiden filter

- stereotools filter

- rubberband filter

- tremolo filter

- agate filter

- chromakey filter

- maskedmerge filter

- Screenpresso SPV1 decoding

- chromaprint fingerprinting muxer

- ffplay dynamic volume control

- displace filter

- selectivecolor filter

- extensive native AAC encoder improvements and removal of experimental flag

- ADPCM PSX decoder

- 3dostr, dcstr, fsb, genh, vag, xvag, ads, msf, svag & vpk demuxer

- zscale filter

- wve demuxer

- zero-copy Intel QSV transcoding in ffmpeg

- shuffleframes filter

- SDX2 DPCM decoder

- vibrato filter

- innoHeim/Rsupport Screen Capture Codec decoder

- ADPCM AICA decoder

- Interplay ACM demuxer and audio decoder

- XMA1 & XMA2 decoder

- realtime filter

- anoisesrc audio filter source

- IVR demuxer

- compensationdelay filter

- acompressor filter

- support encoding 16-bit RLE SGI images

- apulsator filter

- sidechaingate audio filter

- mipsdspr1 option has been renamed to mipsdsp

- aemphasis filter

- mips32r5 option has been removed

- mips64r6 option has been removed

- DXVA2-accelerated VP9 decoding

- SOFAlizer: virtual binaural acoustics filter

- VAAPI VP9 hwaccel

- audio high-order multiband parametric equalizer

- automatic bitstream filtering

- showspectrumpic filter

- libstagefright support removed

- spectrumsynth filter

- ahistogram filter

- only seek with the right mouse button in ffplay

- toggle full screen when double-clicking with the left mouse button in ffplay

- afftfilt filter

- convolution filter

- libquvi support removed

- support for dvaudio in wav and avi

- libaacplus and libvo-aacenc support removed

- Cineform HD decoder

- new DCA decoder with full support for DTS-HD extensions

- significant performance improvements in Windows Television (WTV) demuxer

- nnedi deinterlacer

- streamselect video and astreamselect audio filter

- swaprect filter

- metadata video and ametadata audio filter

- SMPTE VC-2 HQ profile support for the Dirac decoder

- SMPTE VC-2 native encoder supporting the HQ profile

version 2.8:

- colorkey video filter

- BFSTM/BCSTM demuxer

- little-endian ADPCM_THP decoder

- Hap decoder and encoder

- DirectDraw Surface image/texture decoder

- ssim filter

- optional new ASF demuxer

- showvolume filter

- Many improvements to the JPEG 2000 decoder

- Go2Meeting decoding support

- adrawgraph audio and drawgraph video filter

- removegrain video filter

- Intel QSV-accelerated MPEG-2 video and HEVC encoding

- Intel QSV-accelerated MPEG-2 video and HEVC decoding

- Intel QSV-accelerated VC-1 video decoding

- libkvazaar HEVC encoder

- erosion, dilation, deflate and inflate video filters

- Dynamic Audio Normalizer as dynaudnorm filter

- Reverse video and areverse audio filter

- Random filter

- deband filter

- AAC fixed-point decoding

- sidechaincompress audio filter

- bitstream filter for converting HEVC from MP4 to Annex B

- acrossfade audio filter

- allyuv and allrgb video sources

- atadenoise video filter

- OS X VideoToolbox support

- aphasemeter filter

- showfreqs filter

- vectorscope filter

- waveform filter

- hstack and vstack filter

- Support DNx100 (1440x1080@8)

- VAAPI hevc hwaccel

- VDPAU hevc hwaccel

- framerate filter

- Switched default encoders for webm to VP9 and Opus

- Removed experimental flag from the JPEG 2000 encoder

version 2.7:

- FFT video filter

- TDSC decoder

- DTS lossless extension (XLL) decoding (not lossless, disabled by default)

- showwavespic filter

- DTS decoding through libdcadec

- Drop support for nvenc API before 5.0

- nvenc HEVC encoder

- Detelecine filter

- Intel QSV-accelerated H.264 encoding

- MMAL-accelerated H.264 decoding

- basic APNG encoder and muxer with default extension "apng"

- unpack DivX-style packed B-frames in MPEG-4 bitstream filter

- WebM Live Chunk Muxer

- nvenc level and tier options

- chorus filter

- Canopus HQ/HQA decoder

- Automatically rotate videos based on metadata in ffmpeg

- improved Quickdraw compatibility

- VP9 high bit-depth and extended colorspaces decoding support

- WebPAnimEncoder API when available for encoding and muxing WebP

- Direct3D11-accelerated decoding

- Support Secure Transport

- Multipart JPEG demuxer

version 2.6:

- nvenc encoder

- 10bit spp filter

- colorlevels filter

- RIFX format for *.wav files

- RTP/mpegts muxer

- non continuous cache protocol support

- tblend filter

- cropdetect support for non 8bpp, absolute (if limit >= 1) and relative (if limit < 1.0) threshold

- Camellia symmetric block cipher

- OpenH264 encoder wrapper

- VOC seeking support

- Closed caption Decoder

- fspp, uspp, pp7 MPlayer postprocessing filters ported to native filters

- showpalette filter

- Twofish symmetric block cipher

- Support DNx100 (960x720@8)

- eq2 filter ported from libmpcodecs as eq filter

- removed libmpcodecs

- Changed default DNxHD colour range in QuickTime .mov derivatives to mpeg range

- ported softpulldown filter from libmpcodecs as repeatfields filter

- dcshift filter

- RTP depacketizer for loss tolerant payload format for MP3 audio (RFC 5219)

- RTP depacketizer for AC3 payload format (RFC 4184)

- palettegen and paletteuse filters

- VP9 RTP payload format (draft 0) experimental depacketizer

- RTP depacketizer for DV (RFC 6469)

- DXVA2-accelerated HEVC decoding

- AAC ELD 480 decoding

- Intel QSV-accelerated H.264 decoding

- DSS SP decoder and DSS demuxer

- Fix stsd atom corruption in DNxHD QuickTimes

- Canopus HQX decoder

- RTP depacketization of T.140 text (RFC 4103)

- Port MIPS optimizations to 64-bit

version 2.5:

- HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) packetizer

- SUP/PGS subtitle demuxer

- ffprobe -show_pixel_formats option

- CAST128 symmetric block cipher, ECB mode

- STL subtitle demuxer and decoder

- libutvideo YUV 4:2:2 10bit support

- XCB-based screen-grabber

- UDP-Lite support (RFC 3828)

- xBR scaling filter

- AVFoundation screen capturing support

- ffserver supports codec private options

- creating DASH compatible fragmented MP4, MPEG-DASH segmenting muxer

- WebP muxer with animated WebP support

- zygoaudio decoding support

- APNG demuxer

- postproc visualization support

version 2.4:

- Icecast protocol

- ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter

- large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable

- ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol

- support for using metadata in stream specifiers in fftools

- LZMA compression support in TIFF decoder

- H.261 RTP payload format (RFC 4587) depacketizer and experimental packetizer

- HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) depacketizer

- added codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs

- Matroska 3D support thorugh side data

- HTML generation using texi2html is deprecated in favor of makeinfo/texi2any

- silenceremove filter

version 2.3:

- AC3 fixed-point decoding

- shuffleplanes filter

- subfile protocol

- Phantom Cine demuxer

- replaygain data export

- VP7 video decoder

- Alias PIX image encoder and decoder

- Improvements to the BRender PIX image decoder

- Improvements to the XBM decoder

- QTKit input device

- improvements to OpenEXR image decoder

- support decoding 16-bit RLE SGI images

- GDI screen grabbing for Windows

- alternative rendition support for HTTP Live Streaming

- AVFoundation input device

- Direct Stream Digital (DSD) decoder

- Magic Lantern Video (MLV) demuxer

- On2 AVC (Audio for Video) decoder

- support for decoding through DXVA2 in ffmpeg

- libbs2b-based stereo-to-binaural audio filter

- libx264 reference frames count limiting depending on level

- native Opus decoder

- display matrix export and rotation API

- WebVTT encoder

- showcqt multimedia filter

- zoompan filter

- signalstats filter

- hqx filter (hq2x, hq3x, hq4x)

- flanger filter

- Image format auto-detection

- LRC demuxer and muxer

- Samba protocol (via libsmbclient)

- WebM DASH Manifest muxer

- libfribidi support in drawtext

version 2.2:

- HNM version 4 demuxer and video decoder

- Live HDS muxer

- setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions

- elbg filter

- string validation in ffprobe

- support for decoding through VDPAU in ffmpeg (the -hwaccel option)

- complete Voxware MetaSound decoder

- remove mp3_header_compress bitstream filter

- Windows resource files for shared libraries

- aeval filter

- stereoscopic 3d metadata handling

- WebP encoding via libwebp

- ATRAC3+ decoder

- VP8 in Ogg demuxing

- side & metadata support in NUT

- framepack filter

- XYZ12 rawvideo support in NUT

- Exif metadata support in WebP decoder

- OpenGL device

- Use metadata_header_padding to control padding in ID3 tags (currently used in

MP3, AIFF, and OMA files), FLAC header, and the AVI "junk" block.

- Mirillis FIC video decoder

- Support DNx444