FFmpeg supporters
have donated 1200 € for the completion of the
Snow specification 1.0
and a working implementation licensed under the LGPL.
Help is very welcome. Please don't hesitate to contact us on the
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mailing list. Gain your portion!
Further donations are welcome as well.
(August 21, 2008) The AAC decoder from FFmpeg Summer of Code 2006 has finally been cleaned up and is now in FFmpeg trunk. It supports Main and Low Complexity profile AAC but does not yet support HE AAC v1 (LC + SBR) or v2 (LC + SBR + PS), though implementation of this support is underway. It is considerably faster than FAAD and you should expect further performance improvements and bug fixes in the coming weeks.
Also, FFmpeg now has floating point PCM support and supports MLP/TrueHD decoding (FFmpeg SoC 2008 should bring us an encoder), Apple Lossless Audio encoding (FFmpeg SoC 2008) MVI demuxing and Motion Pixels Video decoding, D-Cinema audio muxing, Electronic Arts CMV and TGV decoding and MAXIS EA XA demuxing/decoding.
(June 16, 2008) UAB "DKD" (dkd.lt) have released a Nellymoser ASAO compatible decoder and encoder under the LGPL. This will aid the development of a native encoder in FFmpeg, and right now a GSoC student is working hard on just that task. A great thanks to UAB "DKD" for this contribution to the FFmpeg community.
(June 11, 2008) We have added an Oma demuxer, the QuickTime variant of an IMA ADPCM encoder, a VFW grabber, an iPod/iPhone-compatible MP4 muxer, a Mimic decoder, an MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer as well as demuxers and decoders for the following fringe formats: RL2, IFF, 8SVX, BFI.
(February 7, 2008) We have added Ogg and AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxers, TechnoTrend PVA and Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxers, PC Paintbrush PCX and Sun Rasterfile decoders.
(November 11, 2007) FFmpeg now supports XIntra8 frames, meaning that finally all WMV2 samples and some WMV3 samples that showed blocky color artifacts can be decoded correctly.
(October 22, 2007) Beam Software SIFF demuxer and video decoder support added.
(October 15, 2007) FFmpeg gets support for the Nellymoser speech codec used in flash.
(October 9, 2007) Apart from a DNxHD encoder, PAFF decoding support for H.264 was committed to SVN.
(September 29, 2007) AMV audio and video decoding has arrived.
(September 13, 2007) In about half a year of work since the last update we have added among other things: DXA and Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder, DNxHD, Atrac3 and AC-3 decoders, QTRLE encoder, NUT and Matroska muxers.
(July 14, 2007) FFmpeg got 8 projects this year in the Google Summer of Code program. Check out the FFmpeg SoC about page for more information.
(March 09, 2007) Nine months without news but with heavy development. A few select highlights are decoders for VC-1/WMV3/WMV9, VMware, VP5, VP6 video and WavPack, IMC, DCA audio and a WMA encoder.
(June 01, 2006) FFmpeg got 5 projects in the Google Summer of Code program. Check out the FFmpeg SoC about page for more information about the 5 projects.
(June 01, 2006) FFmpeg CVS to SVN transition is completed. The CVS server is now retired.
(May 02, 2006) FFmpeg is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code. If you are interested, check out the list of possible projects on the multimedia wiki.
(May 02, 2006) FFmpeg will be present at LinuxTag 2006 with a few developers. Drop by the Free Video booth to meet us.
(October 16, 2005) Recent FFmpeg developments include a native decoder for Duck TrueMotion 2 data. This decoder can handle data from the popular Final Fantasy VII game (Windows port). As usual, check out the latest CVS.
(August 17, 2005) Due to the generous donations of all you people we have ordered a new server for the project and will have it running in a few weeks. Look at the MPlayer news page for details. Thank you!
(August 6, 2005) A few days ago the server of the MPlayer project where FFmpeg is hosted had a serious failure. We are now looking for donations to get a replacement server and hosting place. If you wish to see FFmpeg continue to prosper, please contribute. Look at the MPlayer news page for details.
(May 20, 2005) Notable recent developments:
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(Mar 6, 2005) FFmpeg now includes a native decoder for Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (a.k.a. 'alac'). As usual, check out CVS.
(Feb 28, 2005) At least 2 new features recently: Native decoder implementations of both the Shorten lossless audio codec and the LOCO video codec. Further, finally added a link to Martin Böhme's FFmpeg API documentation that so many of you have already located with search engines. See the documentation page for more information.
(Feb 6, 2005) Added a new compatibility page to help users understand which FFmpeg encoding options work best if they need to interoperate with certain proprietary multimedia players.
(Jan 24, 2005) Eagle-eyed observers may have noticed the recent CVS addition of a VC-9 decoding implementation. It is still highly experimental but should eventually serve as a basis for decoding Microsoft VC-1/VC-9/WMV3/WMV9 video data.
(Dec 10, 2004) Here are some of the newest FFmpeg developments:
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