FFmpeg weekly news #4
Another week has passed in the ffmpeg universe.
- Mans added -Bsymbolic, everyone wonders why this isnt default and what the ELF designers were smoking. Shared libav* becomes smaller, faster and more secure due to this change.
- Mike fixes a security issue in the mov/mp4 demuxer. Noone writes a security advisory, like always.
- Dave Yeo restores OS/2 support
- RV30/40 work by kostya
- VC1 improvments by kostya
- removing globals used in API by me and mans (due to issues with -Bsymbolic)
- export sha1 implementation in libavutil to the world (actually we just forgot to install the header) by Diego Pettenò
- Various h264 fixes by jeff
- Make mov useable over http by elupus and baptiste
- Support overriding codec id for input files by me
- Generic global header support for mov by baptiste
- User adjustable dynamic range compression for AC3 by justin
- djgpp support by Michael Kostylev
- PC Paintbrush PCX image decoder by ivo
- Sun Rasterfile decoder by ivo
- Extract aspect ratio from ODML-avis by me
- TechnoTrend PVA Demuxer by ivo
- support removing elements from the AVL tree in libavutil and make it independant of malloc() by me
- improve CRC API and install crc.h (another forgotten header) by aurel
- various request_channels related fixes by justin
- Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer by ivo
- support for libdc1394 v.2 by Alessandro Sappia
- Do not install rtp.h (which should have never been part of the public API) by luca#1
- User specifyable maximum amount of memory to use for the index. by paul kelly
- libav-user was created by root
- Add support for H.264 video in the RTP muxer by luca#1
- ugly hack to support multicodec stsd in mov by me
- subtitle support in mov improvmets by me and reimar
- support for Matroska attachments by eugeni stepanov
- ICC support by reimar
- SMPTE 421 Annex L format demuxer by kostya
- The monthly flames, accusations and insults, a vote about fixing warnings and me, baptiste and many others fixing many. Some gcc bugs in -Werror being found, all decoders being changed to have const input by me …
- support for ogg text subtitles by reimar
- mbaff spatial direct support by loren
- many optimizations by loren
- parallel regression tests by mans
- various nut fixes by oded
- support for speex in ogg by reimar
- The first parts of libavfilter hit svn by bobby and vitor
- MANY bugfixes, ive ignored most due to lazyness and i think its not that interresting for most readers anyway
- Lots of cleanup by various people
- myself loosing the ability to reliably capitalize words correctly as i move toward the end of this entry, also note, nothing has been spellchecked as its almost 6 in the morning here …