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authorClément Bœsch <u@pkh.me>2014-09-14 08:32:46 +0200
committerClément Bœsch <u@pkh.me>2014-09-14 13:41:49 +0200
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Changelog/RELEASE_NOTES: prepare for 2.4
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│ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel" │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
- The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", ...
- FFmpeg 2.4 is mostly API-, but not ABI-compatible with the previous major release.
- This means that the code using our libraries needs to be rebuilt, but only minimal
- source changes should be required, as described in the section 'API Information'.
+ The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", just 2 months
+ after the release of 2.3. Since this wasn't a long time ago, the Changelog
+ is a bit short this time.
+
+ The most important thing in this release is the major version bump of the
+ libraries. This means that this release is neither ABI-compatible nor
+ fully API-compatible. But on the other hand it is aligned with the Libav
+ 11 release series, and will as a result probably end up being maintained for
+ a long time.
+
+ As usual, if you have any question on this release or any FFmpeg related
+ topic, feel free to join us on the #ffmpeg IRC channel (on
+ irc.freenode.net).
┌────────────────────────────┐
- │ * API Information │
+ │ 🔨 API Information │
└────────────────────────────┘
FFmpeg 2.4 includes the following library versions:
@@ -28,8 +37,9 @@
cause crashes, if it is not initialized.
• Some deprecated functions were removed.
• The avfilter_graph_parse function was made compatible with Libav.
+ • The Matroska demuxer now outputs verbatim ASS packets.
- Please refer to the doc/APIChanges file for more information.
+ Please refer to the doc/APIchanges file for more information.
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ ★ List of New Features │
@@ -39,23 +49,25 @@
│ libavformat │
└────────────────────────────┘
- • Icecast protocol
+ • Icecast protocol.
• API for live metadata updates through event flags.
+ • UTF-16 support in text subtitles formats.
+ • The ASS muxer now reorders the Dialogue events properly.
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ libavfilter │
└────────────────────────────┘
- • ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter
- • large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable
- • added codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs
- • added silenceremove filter
+ • Ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter.
+ • Large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable.
+ • Added codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs.
+ • Added silenceremove filter.
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ libavutil │
└────────────────────────────┘
- • added clip() function in eval
+ • Added clip() function in eval.
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ ⚠ Behaviour changes │
@@ -66,3 +78,4 @@
• libmodplug is now detected through pkg-config
• HTML documentation generation through texi2html is deprecated in
favor of makeinfo/texi2any
+ • ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol