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f6fa7814 2 │ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr" │
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5 The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr", 2.5 months after the
6 release of 2.4.
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8 The most important new features are AVFoundation screen-grabbing support,
9 animated WebP decoding support, and Animated PNG support. In addition, many
10 exciting features for video streaming are also implemented, including MPEG-
11 DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer, and UDP Lite support.
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13 As usual, if you have any question on this release or any FFmpeg related
14 topic, feel free to join us on the #ffmpeg IRC channel (on
15 irc.freenode.net).
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17 ┌────────────────────────────┐
18 │ 🔨 API Information │
19 └────────────────────────────┘
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21 FFmpeg 2.5 includes the following library versions:
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23 • libavutil 54.15.100
24 • libavcodec 56.13.100
25 • libavformat 56.15.102
26 • libavdevice 56. 3.100
27 • libavfilter 5. 2.103
28 • libswscale 3. 1.101
29 • libswresample 1. 1.100
30 • libpostproc 53. 3.100
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f6fa7814 32 Important API changes since 2.4:
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f6fa7814 34 • avpriv_dv_frame_profile2() has been deprecated
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37 Please refer to the doc/APIchanges file for more information.
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39 ┌────────────────────────────┐
40 │ ★ List of New Features │
41 └────────────────────────────┘
42
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43 ┌────────────────────────────┐
44 │ ffprobe │
45 └────────────────────────────┘
46
47 • -show_pixel_formats option
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49 ┌────────────────────────────┐
50 │ ffserver │
51 └────────────────────────────┘
52
53 • codec private options support
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55 ┌────────────────────────────┐
56 │ libavcodec │
57 └────────────────────────────┘
58
59 • STL subtitle decoder
60 • libutvideo YUV 4:2:2 10bit support
61 • animated WebP decoding support
62 • zygoaudio decoding support
dcebb6f3 63 • APNG decoder
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65 ┌────────────────────────────┐
66 │ libavdevice │
67 └────────────────────────────┘
68
69 • XCB-based screen-grabber
70 • AVFoundation screen capturing support
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72 ┌────────────────────────────┐
73 │ libavformat │
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76 • HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) packetizer
77 • SUP/PGS subtitle demuxer
78 • STL subtitle demuxer
79 • UDP-Lite support (RFC 3828)
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80 • MPEG-DASH segmenting muxer, which allows creating DASH compatible
81 fragmented MP4
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82 • WebP muxer
83 • APNG demuxer
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85 ┌────────────────────────────┐
86 │ libavfilter │
87 └────────────────────────────┘
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f6fa7814 89 • xBR scaling filter
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91 ┌────────────────────────────┐
92 │ libavutil │
93 └────────────────────────────┘
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95 • CAST128 symmetric block cipher, ECB mode
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97 ┌────────────────────────────┐
98 │ libpostproc │
99 └────────────────────────────┘
100
101 • visualization support