updates: introductionary and more general notes, add missing items from changelog

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Release Notes
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* 0.6 "Works with HTML 5" May, 2010
* 0.6 "Works with HTML5" June, 2010
General notes
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This release features a lot of improvements that are relevant for HTML5 video.
The H.264 and Theora decoders are now significantly faster, the vorbis decoder
has seen important updates and this release supports Google's newly released
libvpx library. Please note that for license reasons, we consider binaries of
FFmpeg and libavcodec that are linked against libvpx unredistributable. We are
confident that the situation will improve upstream; in this case, we will
rectify this issue in a (future) point release.
Other important changes are additions of decoders for popular codecs as
Intel Indeo 5, WMA Pro, WMA Voice and HE-AAC.
See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes.
Please note that our policy on bug reports has not changed. We still only accept
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- -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
- ffprobe tool
- RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
- CODEC_CAP_EXPERIMENTAL added
Added Codecs:
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- Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
- Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
- RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
- VP8 decoding via libvpx
Notable license related changes
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- remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
- libswscale can now be compiled in LGPL mode
- libvpx is considered (L)GPL incompatible