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author | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2012-01-27 00:57:50 +0400 |
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committer | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2012-01-27 00:59:09 +0400 |
commit | 5ce1b214eb8b297fc860172d177523b306af842c (patch) | |
tree | 8462ace23b1d8a9246629054adcf0b4b2248b732 /doc/RELEASE_NOTES | |
parent | 32281d309ab206ec762d43ea805cd709213fc9f2 (diff) |
RELEASE_NOTES: update for 0.10
remove minor things and things that we had in many previous releases
already.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/RELEASE_NOTES')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/RELEASE_NOTES | 35 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES index ad4279cc82..ccaa4e4d3c 100644 --- a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,20 +1,12 @@ Release Notes ============= -* 0.9 "Harmony" December, 2011 +* 0.10 "Freedom" January, 2012 General notes ------------- -This release is binary compatible with 0.8. The 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has -been extended to also support the command line syntax and features of a tool -called avconv. - -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 decoder has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material and our libx264 -wrapper now allows to produce 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video. +This release is binary compatible with 0.8 and 0.9. See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. Note, there are many more new features and bugfixes than whats listed there. @@ -39,24 +31,7 @@ is able to use AVCodecContext.get_buffer() in the similar way as video decoding. * new audio encoding API which encodes from an AVFrame to an AVPacket, thus allowing it to properly output timing information and side data. -* rewritten AVOptions API with better built-in support for private options. - -* private options support for demuxers [avformat_open_input()], muxers -[avformat_write_header()], encoders and decoders [avcodec_open2()]. -As a result, many format- or codec-specific fields and flags in AVFormatContext -and AVCodecContext were deprecated -- notably most of CODEC_FLAG2_* and many -CODEC_FLAG_*. - -* new API for custom IO interrupt callbacks. - -* #include cleanup in libavutil -- libavutil/avutil.h no longer includes all -the other headers in libavutil, they must be included manually. One specific -result is that libavutil/mathematics.h is no longer included from -libavcodec/avcodec.h, which is a common source of errors. - -Please see the file doc/APIchanges for details along with -similar programmer-centric information. - +Please see the git history and the file doc/APIchanges for details. Other notable changes @@ -67,8 +42,8 @@ symbols. This will break applications using those symbols. Possible solutions are, in order of preference: 1) Try finding a way of accomplishing the same with public API. 2) If there is no corresponding public API, but you think there should be, -post a request on the user mailing list or IRC channel. +post a request on the developer mailing list or IRC channel. 3) Finally if your program needs access to FFmpeg / libavcodec / libavformat internals for some special reason then the best solution is to link statically. -Please see the Changelog file for a more detailed list of changes. +Please see the Changelog file and git history for a more detailed list of changes. |