third_party_ffmpeg/RELEASE_NOTES
Michael Niedermayer c2a7607a1c RELEASE_NOTES: Add next versions name (Fresnel)
The name is "randomly" picked from previous suggestions
If people prefer something else, suggest it quickly

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
2014-09-13 23:51:00 +02:00

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┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel" │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", ...
FFmpeg 2.4 is API-, but not ABI-compatible with the previous major release.
This means that the code using our libraries needs to be rebuilt, but no
source changes should be required.
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ * API Information │
└────────────────────────────┘
FFmpeg <next> includes the following library versions:
• libavutil xx.yy.1zz
• libavcodec xx.yy.1zz
• libavformat xx.yy.1zz
• libavdevice xx.yy.1zz
• libavfilter xx.yy.1zz
• libswscale xx.yy.1zz
• libswresample xx.yy.1zz
• libpostproc xx.yy.1zz
Please refer to the doc/APIChanges file for more information.
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ ★ List of New Features │
└────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ libavformat │
└────────────────────────────┘
• Icecast protocol
• API for live metadata updates through event flags.
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ 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
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ libavutil │
└────────────────────────────┘
• added clip() function in eval
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ ⚠ Behaviour changes │
└────────────────────────────┘
• IMPORTANT: The new field mime_type was added to AVProbeData.
To avoid crashes, make sure to always initialize AVProbeData, e.g. use
'AVProbeData pd = { 0 };' instead of 'AVProbeData pd;'.
• dctdnoiz filter now uses a block size of 8x8 instead of 16x16 by default
• -vismv option is deprecated in favor of the codecview filter
• libmodplug is now detected through pkg-config
• HTML documentation generation through texi2html is deprecated in
favor of makeinfo/texi2any