[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web: "news" about FFmpeg 3.0

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanag at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Clément Bœsch <u at pkh.me> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:45:43PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > Found-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde
>> > ---
>> >  src/index |    9 +++++++++
>> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
>> > index 827d803..840ed10 100644
>> > --- a/src/index
>> > +++ b/src/index
>> > @@ -37,6 +37,15 @@
>> >      News
>> >    </h1>
>> >
>> > +  <h3 id="pr3.0">February 15th, 2016, FFmpeg 3.0</h3>
>> > +  <p>
>> > +    We have made a new major releases (<b><a href="download.html#release_3.0">3.0</a></b>).
>> > +  </p>
>> > +  <p>
>> > +    We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use
>> > +    current git master.
>> > +  </p>
>> > +
>>
>> Please, can we had slightly more information about that release?
>>
>> I think the main highlights are:
>>
>> - The API/ABI break (implied by the major bump)
>> - The many improvements in the native AAC encoder making it the
>>   recommended one (libaacplus and libvo-aacenc are removed)
>> - A ton of filters were added
>
>> - Many ASM optimizations that weren't mentioned in the Changelog (I don't
>>   remember them)
>
> vf_blend had some significant work from Timothy Gu that I believe made
> it into the release.
>
>>
>> ... other developers will probably want to point out a few more things.
>
> I again don't know if it is worthwhile, but dynaudnorm is now
> available on MSVC 2012 and earlier due to an erf fallback I
> introduced.
>

Those are points for the ChangeLog if anything, not the key points for
the release announcement.

One that the media has already cited:
- VP9 Hardware Acceleration (DXVA2 and VA-API)

- Hendrik