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2007-10-31

FFmpeg weekly news #2

After the extreemly popular recent changes in ffmpeg blog post, here are the next news, precissely 1 well something ;) afterwards

Note, errors and ommissions are unintended and if you spot any tell me and ill fix them (except spelling and grammer i wont bother fixing these)

  • More work and patches by ronald and luca to get the IPv6 related code closer to being functional
  • diego removed Metrowerks Codewarrior support due to it being unmaintained, broken and making the code more ugly (also not a single person complained so there is likely no one using it)
  • Altivec runtime detection fix/cleanup and messup
  • The remaining H.264 PAFF patches from jeff downs hit svn, sadly this also caused a slowdown of the decoder, so this needs more work to prevent this slowdown
  • reimar removed the extreemly broken SIGILL based cpu extension detection code, the SIGILL code should have never been commited in the first place …
  • luca barbato added support for a user specifyable maximum number of frames per RTP packet
  • a optimized VP3 IDCT for blackfin by marc hoffman
  • mans changed configure to use pr instead of cat -n as later is not standard, this will likely cause some minor annoyance to some users of non standard systems well fix your system, dont expect every lib and application to workaround it!
  • a DNxHD (SMPTE VC-3) encoder by baptiste
  • DNxHD 10 bit depth and 36mbit decoding support by baptiste
  • user specifyable zlib compression level for PNG by reimar
  • ogg seeking simplification and bugfix by reimar
  • a very small part of the MMS patch hit svn
  • some minor h.264 optimization by jeff downs
  • infinite loop and negtive memcpy in the ac3 and aac parser fix by myself
  • RC4, DES and encrypted asf support by reimar
  • VP6 with huffman encoded blocks support by aurel
  • deblocking for H.264 PAFF fix by Martin Zlomek
  • nellymoser ASAO decoder by a840bda5870ba11f19698ff6eb9581dfb0f95fa5, 539459aeb7d425140b62a3ec7dbf6dc8e408a306, 520e17cd55896441042b14df2566a6eb610ed444
    Loic Minier and Benjamin Larsson
  • support for electronic arts demuxer and decoders by aurel and peter ross
  • speling, gramer and warning fixed by diego
  • streaming to XBox360 fix by patric stout
  • a regression fix related to url_split() by ronald
  • display and sample aspect ratios display by michel
  • WMV3 FASTTX=0 fix by kostya
  • AVProgram API to export mpeg ts program information to the user app by nico
  • rm demuxer changed to output frames instead of slices by kostya and roberto, this simplifies alot of related code
  • Beam Software SIFF demuxer and video decoder by kostya
  • support for reading duration from Xing and VBRI tag in mp3 files by andreas
  • more flac encoding optimizations by loren
  • moving the framecrc muxer to its own file by aurel
  • and theres a patch for a MLP/TrueHD decoder by Ian Caulfield on ffmpeg-dev which i should review
  • many other things ive missed …
Filed under: FFmpeg — Michael @ 00:34

4 Comments »

  1. “except spelling and grammer i wont bother fixing these” … grammAR! It’s spelled with “ar” at the end! Not “er”!!

    …sorry… I am a bit scarred emotionally since I once struck out with that exact mistake in a spelling bee in front of my entire school. :-)

    Comment by Multimedia Mike — 2007-10-31 @ 01:16

  2. Just wandering what is the destiny of E-AC3 support code that was developed during the recent GSoC – is it going to be added to SVN, waits for review or simply too bad and will never be there?

    Comment by Kirill — 2007-10-31 @ 08:42

  3. hashing ones name to protect identity, whilst retaining the ability to claim ownership, is original. thanks for the news update michael.

    Comment by poitt — 2007-11-07 @ 12:34

  4. This kind of report is really interesting. Thank you :)

    Comment by shamaz — 2007-11-22 @ 23:21

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