FFmpeg v4.0 released

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FFmpeg 4.0 "Wu", a new major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:

 

• Bitstream filters for editing metadata in H.264, HEVC and MPEG-2 streams
  
• Experimental MagicYUV encoder
  
• TiVo ty/ty+ demuxer
  
• Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding
  
• native aptX and aptX HD encoder and decoder
  
• NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding
  
• Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter
  
• mcompand audio filter
  
• acontrast audio filter
  
• OpenCL overlay filter
  
• video mix filter
  
• video normalize filter
  
• audio lv2 wrapper filter
  
• VAAPI MJPEG and VP8 decoding
  
• AMD AMF H.264 and HEVC encoders
  
• video fillborders filter
  
• video setrange filter
  
• support LibreSSL (via libtls)
  
• Dropped support for building for Windows XP. The minimum supported Windows version is Windows Vista.
  
• deconvolve video filter
  
• entropy video filter
  
• hilbert audio filter source
  
• aiir audio filter
  
• Removed the ffserver program
  
• Removed the ffmenc and ffmdec muxer and demuxer
  
• VideoToolbox HEVC encoder and hwaccel
  
• VAAPI-accelerated ProcAmp (color balance), denoise and sharpness filters
  
• Add android_camera indev
  
• codec2 en/decoding via libcodec2
  
• native SBC encoder and decoder
  
• drmeter audio filter
  
• hapqa_extract bitstream filter
  
• filter_units bitstream filter
  
• AV1 Support through libaom
  
• E-AC-3 dependent frames support
  
• bitstream filter for extracting E-AC-3 core
  
• Haivision SRT protocol via libsrt
  
• vfrdet filter
  

We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.