FFMPEG announces a new release today. It releases version 0.5
The slashodot peculated this ffmpeg related post to the top of its news today:
After many years of release-free development, FFmpeg, the most widely used audio and video codec library, has finally returned to a regular release schedule with the long-awaited version 0.5
Here is a very abbreviated list of some of the improvements to the converter from the official ffmpeg site:
Significant work to support at least decoding of all widespread mainstream proprietary codecs, such as:
- decoders and encoders
- ALAC
- Flash Screen Video
- WMAv2 decoder fixed, WMAv1/v2 encoder
- decoders
- Atrac3
- MLP/TrueHD
- On2 VP3 improvements and VP5/VP6 support
- RealAudio Cooker and fixes for 14.4 and 28.8
- RealVideo RV30/40
- WMV3/WMV9/VC-1 and IntraX8 frame support for WMV2/VC-1
We sysadmins at promet have used ffmpeg in several of our projects and find it a great tool. Our recent implementations include a video distance learning tool and its also used in some of our work for sites of members of the house of representatives using this video platform.
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1 marius // Mar 17, 2009 at 3:44 am
They also mention on the site where this stands: “It is codenamed “half-way to world domination A.K.A. the belligerent blue bike shed” to give an idea where we stand in the grand scheme of things and to commemorate the many fruitful discussions we had during its development. ”
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