From e5880b3f24292ee86929d4cab7fd98d7afed1feb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reinhard Tartler Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:25:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updates: introductionary and more general notes, add missing items from changelog Originally committed as revision 23420 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/branches/0.6 --- RELEASE | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index 837d16cb9a..ff06d2077b 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,11 +1,22 @@ Release Notes ============= -* 0.6 "Works with HTML 5" May, 2010 +* 0.6 "Works with HTML5" June, 2010 General notes ------------- +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 @@ -29,6 +40,7 @@ Notable changes: - -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: @@ -76,6 +88,7 @@ Added Codecs: - 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 @@ -83,3 +96,4 @@ Notable license related changes - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL - libswscale can now be compiled in LGPL mode +- libvpx is considered (L)GPL incompatible