FFmpeg v0.6 released. Now supports WebM (VP8) plus lots of other new formats...

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The swiss-army knife of audio and video encoders/decoders gets a major new update.

 

Website / Release Notes / Changelog / Download (for Windows)

 

A bit longer than actually expected, but finally, we are proud to announce a new release: FFmpeg 0.6. Check out the release notes and changelog.

 

It is codenamed "Works with HTML5" as the special focus on this release were a lot of improvements that are relevant for HTML5 video. The H.264 and Theora decoders are now significantly faster and the Vorbis decoder has seen important updates. This release supports Google's newly released libvpx library for the VP8 codec and the Matroska demuxer was extended to support to WebM container.

 

This release includes again an extensive number of changes; some of its highlights are:

 

Significant work to support at least decoding of all widespread mainstream proprietary codecs, and as usual broad coverage of widespread non-proprietary codecs, such as:

 

Decoders and encoders

VP8 (via Google's libvpx library)

 

Decoders

AMR-NB

Atrac1

HE-AAC v1

Bink

Bluray (PGS) subtitle

MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)

WMA Pro

WMA Voice

 

Highlights among the newly supported container formats:

 

Demuxers and muxers

Adobe Filmstrip

SoX native format

WebM support in Matroska de/muxer

 

Demuxers

Bink

Core Audio Format

Dirac in Ogg

IV8

QCP

VQF

Wave64

 

Muxers

IEC-61937

RTSP

 

• faster AAC decoding
  
• faster H.264 decoding
  
• numerous ARM optimizations
  
• important updates to the Vorbis decoder
  
• RTP packetization support for H.263, and AMR
  
• RTP depacketization support for AMR, ASF, H.263, Theora and Vorbis
  
• RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
  
• the new ffprobe tool
  
• VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
  
• and so much more!