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RELEASE_NOTES: update for 0.10

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remove minor things and things that we had in many previous releases
already.

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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Release Notes Release Notes
============= =============
* 0.9 "Harmony" December, 2011 * 0.10 "Freedom" January, 2012
General notes General notes
------------- -------------
This release is binary compatible with 0.8. The 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has This release is binary compatible with 0.8 and 0.9.
been extended to also support the command line syntax and features of a tool
called avconv.
Additionally, this release introduces a number of new interesting codecs
such as the Apple Prores, Flash Screen Video 2 and Windows Media Image,
and muxers such as LATM or CELT in Ogg, among many others. Moreover, our
H.264 decoder has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material and our libx264
wrapper now allows to produce 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video.
See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. Note, there See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. Note, there
are many more new features and bugfixes than whats listed there. are many more new features and bugfixes than whats listed there.
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* new audio encoding API which encodes from an AVFrame to an AVPacket, thus * new audio encoding API which encodes from an AVFrame to an AVPacket, thus
allowing it to properly output timing information and side data. allowing it to properly output timing information and side data.
* rewritten AVOptions API with better built-in support for private options. Please see the git history and the file doc/APIchanges for details.
* private options support for demuxers [avformat_open_input()], muxers
[avformat_write_header()], encoders and decoders [avcodec_open2()].
As a result, many format- or codec-specific fields and flags in AVFormatContext
and AVCodecContext were deprecated -- notably most of CODEC_FLAG2_* and many
CODEC_FLAG_*.
* new API for custom IO interrupt callbacks.
* #include cleanup in libavutil -- libavutil/avutil.h no longer includes all
the other headers in libavutil, they must be included manually. One specific
result is that libavutil/mathematics.h is no longer included from
libavcodec/avcodec.h, which is a common source of errors.
Please see the file doc/APIchanges for details along with
similar programmer-centric information.
Other notable changes Other notable changes
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are, in order of preference: are, in order of preference:
1) Try finding a way of accomplishing the same with public API. 1) Try finding a way of accomplishing the same with public API.
2) If there is no corresponding public API, but you think there should be, 2) If there is no corresponding public API, but you think there should be,
post a request on the user mailing list or IRC channel. post a request on the developer mailing list or IRC channel.
3) Finally if your program needs access to FFmpeg / libavcodec / libavformat 3) Finally if your program needs access to FFmpeg / libavcodec / libavformat
internals for some special reason then the best solution is to link statically. internals for some special reason then the best solution is to link statically.
Please see the Changelog file for a more detailed list of changes. Please see the Changelog file and git history for a more detailed list of changes.