FFmpeg Experiences A New Release, Finally!

Posted by Michael Larabel on March 09, 2009

FFmpeg, a popular free software project to record, convert, and stream audio/video files of various formats, has finally readied itself for a new release. FFmpeg is relied upon heavily by MPlayer, but official releases are far and few between. Tonight, however, the FFmpeg developers have released version 0.5 of this LGPL multimedia software.

With FFmpeg 0.5 there is a plethora of new audio/video file decoders and encoders, a new meta-data API, cleaner code, ffserver fixes, new muxers / demuxers, and various other features. Among the new decoders are for RealVideo RV30/40, MLP/TrueHD, Flash Screen Video, Monkey's Audio, and many other formats. There is also NVIDIA VDPAU support in FFmpeg.

The announcement of FFmpeg 0.5 can be found at FFmpeg.org along with download links. The complete change-log can be found via their SVN viewer.

Discuss this article in our forums, IRC channel, or email the author. You can also follow our content via RSS and on social networks like Facebook, Identi.ca, and Twitter (@Phoronix and @MichaelLarabel). Subscribe to Phoronix Premium to view our content without advertisements, view entire articles on a single page, and experience other benefits.
Latest Hardware Reviews
  1. Sumo Lounge Emperor
  2. Gallium3D Continues Improving OpenGL For Older Radeon GPUs
  3. 15-Way Open vs. Closed Source NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU Comparison
  4. Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings
Latest Software Articles
  1. GCC 4.8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 3.3 Compiler Performance
  2. Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X
  3. The Cost Of Ubuntu Disk Encryption
  4. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
Latest Linux News
  1. A New X.Org-Free Wayland LiveCD Released
  2. Unity 8, Mir Made Progress This Week On Features
  3. LLVM Clang 3.3 RC2 Is Ready For Testing
  4. AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Begins Simple CL Demos
  5. Intel Shows Off GNOME3-Based Tizen Shell
  6. Linux Desktop Security Could Be A Whole Lot Better
  7. KDE 4.11 Will Be The Last Major KDE4 Workspaces Feature Release
  8. New NVIDIA Linux Driver Supports The GeForce GTX 780
  9. Chrome 28 To Offer More Speed Improvements
  10. Digia Announces "Boot To Qt" Project
  11. X.Org Libraries Hit By Round Of Security Issues
Latest Forum Talk
  1. GCC 4.8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 3.3 Compiler Performance
  2. Unity 8, Mir Made Progress This Week On Features
  3. AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Begins Simple CL Demos
  4. Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Release Brings New Packages
  5. Steam: No used games...
  6. KDE 4.11 Will Be The Last Major KDE4 Workspaces...
  1. Computers
  2. Display Drivers
  3. Graphics Cards
  4. Motherboards
  5. Peripherals
  6. Processors
  7. Software
  8. Operating Systems
  9. All Articles
  1. Linux Benchmarking
  2. OpenBenchmarking.org
  3. Phoronix Test Suite