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Project Description

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library. See the documentation for a complete feature list and theChangelog for recent changes.

FFmpeg is free software licensed under the LGPL or GPL depending on your choice of configuration options. If you use FFmpeg or its constituent libraries, you must adhere to the terms of the license in question. You can find basic compliance information and get licensing help on our license and legal considerations page.

Looking for help? Contact us, but before you report any bugs, read the guidelines that we created for this purpose.

Want to participate in the active development of FFmpeg? Keep up with the latest developments by subscribing to both the ffmpeg-devel and ffmpeg-cvslog lists.

News 

July, 5, 2012, Donations

We're glad to announce that FFmpeg has been accepted as SPI associated project.

Donations to FFmpeg can be done through SPI, following the instructions here, or following this direct Click&Pledge link.

Donations will be used to fund expenses related to development (e.g. to cover equipment and server maintenance costs), to sponsor bug fixing, feature development, the participation or organization of meetings and events in the project interest area, and to support internal development or educational projects or any other activity promoting FFmpeg.

June, 7, 2012, FFmpeg 0.11.1

We have made a new point releases (0.11.1). It contains about 70 bugfixes, some possibly security relevant.

We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade to 0.11.1 or git master.

May, 25, 2012, FFmpeg 0.11

We have made a new major release (0.11) It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch. A partial list of new stuff is below:

Fixes:CVE-2012-2772, CVE-2012-2774, CVE-2012-2775, CVE-2012-2776, CVE-2012-2777,
      CVE-2012-2779, CVE-2012-2782, CVE-2012-2783, CVE-2012-2784, CVE-2012-2785,
      CVE-2012-2786, CVE-2012-2787, CVE-2012-2788, CVE-2012-2789, CVE-2012-2790,
      CVE-2012-2791, CVE-2012-2792, CVE-2012-2793, CVE-2012-2794, CVE-2012-2795,
      CVE-2012-2796, CVE-2012-2797, CVE-2012-2798, CVE-2012-2799, CVE-2012-2800,
      CVE-2012-2801, CVE-2012-2802, CVE-2012-2803, CVE-2012-2804,
- v408 Quicktime and Microsoft AYUV Uncompressed 4:4:4:4 encoder and decoder
- setfield filter
- CDXL demuxer and decoder
- Apple ProRes encoder
- ffprobe -count_packets and -count_frames options
- Sun Rasterfile Encoder
- ID3v2 attached pictures reading and writing
- WMA Lossless decoder
- bluray protocol
- blackdetect filter
- libutvideo encoder wrapper (--enable-libutvideo)
- swapuv filter
- bbox filter
- XBM encoder and decoder
- RealAudio Lossless decoder
- ZeroCodec decoder
- tile video filter
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes demuxer
- OpenEXR image decoder
- removelogo filter
- drop support for ffmpeg without libavfilter
- drawtext video filter: fontconfig support
- ffmpeg -benchmark_all option
- super2xsai filter ported from libmpcodecs
- add libavresample audio conversion library for compatibility
- MicroDVD decoder
- Avid Meridien (AVUI) encoder and decoder
- accept + prefix to -pix_fmt option to disable automatic conversions.
- complete audio filtering in libavfilter and ffmpeg
- add fps filter
- audio split filter
- vorbis parser
- png parser
- audio mix filter

We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

April 12, 2012, FFmpeg 0.7.12 / 0.8.11

We have made two new point releases (0.7.12 and 0.8.11). An abbreviated list of changes is below:

Fixes: CVE-2012-0853, CVE-2012-0858, CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3936,
       CVE-2011-3937, CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3947
Several security issues that dont have CVE numbers.
and about 150 bugfixes
See the changelog for details.

We recommend distributors and system integrators to upgrade to 0.10.2 or git master when possible though.

April, 4, 2012, Server Upgrade

Today our main server has been upgraded due to performance issues with our bug tracker. While investigating the speed issues, we also took the opportunity to add voting support to bug reports and wiki pages, so you can now "tell" us which issues you want us to work on first.

March, 17, 2012, FFmpeg 0.10.1

We have made a new point release (0.10.1) It contains some security fixes, over 100 bugfixes and some new features like the swapuv filter. See the changelog for details. We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

January, 27, 2012, FFmpeg 0.10

We have made a new major release (0.10) It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch. A partial list of new stuff is below:

Fixes: CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3934, CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3936,
       CVE-2011-3937, CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3941, CVE-2011-3944,
       CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2011-3947, CVE-2011-3949,
       CVE-2011-3950, CVE-2011-3951, CVE-2011-3952
v410 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit encoder and decoder
SBaGen (SBG) binaural beats script demuxer
OpenMG Audio muxer
Timecode extraction in DV and MOV
thumbnail video filter
XML output in ffprobe
asplit audio filter
tinterlace video filter
astreamsync audio filter
amerge audio filter
ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxer
GSM audio parser
SMJPEG muxer
XWD encoder and decoder
Automatic thread count based on detection number of (available) CPU cores
y41p Brooktree Uncompressed 4:1:1 12-bit encoder and decoder
ffprobe -show_error option
Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer codec
v308 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 encoder and decoder
yuv4 libquicktime packed 4:2:0 encoder and decoder
ffprobe -show_frames option
silencedetect audio filter
ffprobe -show_program_version, -show_library_versions, -show_versions options
rv34: frame-level multi-threading
optimized iMDCT transform on x86 using SSE for for mpegaudiodec
Improved PGS subtitle decoder
dumpgraph option to lavfi device
r210 and r10k encoders
ffwavesynth decoder
aviocat tool
ffeval tool
all features from avconv merged into ffmpeg

We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

January 24, 2012, Forgotten Patches

FFmpeg development has gone into OVERDRIVE. Over the years we have missed patches, so we need your help to locate old unapplied patches to review again.

If you find a patch that was never applied, please let us know, either by resubmitting it to ffmpeg-devel or by attaching it to a bug on our bug tracker.

For example, did you know there was a patch to read DVDs with FFmpeg? Its now being reviewed and fixed up for inclusion. Want to add BluRay support? We're interested!

January 16, 2012, Chemnitzer Linux-Tage

We happily announce that FFmpeg will be represented at `Chemnitzer Linux-Tage' in Chemnitz, Germany. The event will take place on 17th and 18th of March.

More information can be found here

We hereby invite you to visit us at our booth located in the Linux-Live area! There we will demonstrate usage of FFmpeg, answer your questions and listen to your problems and wishes.

January 12, 2012, FFmpeg 0.8.10, 0.7.11, 0.6.5, 0.5.8

We have made 4 new point releases, (0.5.8, 0.6.5, 0.7.11 and 0.8.10). All of them contain fixes for CVE-2011-3892 (already in previous 0.8 and 0.7 releases), CVE-2011-3893, and CVE-2011-3895. In addition 0.8.10 and 0.7.11 contain all critical security fixes from 0.9.1. We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master. We recommend everyone to upgrade to at least 0.7.11, 0.8.10 or 0.9.1.

January 5, 2012, FFmpeg 0.9.1

We have made a new point release, (0.9.1). It contains many bug and security fixes, amongth them CVE-2011-3893 and CVE-2011-3895. It also significantly improves seeking support in H.264. We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

December 25, 2011, FFmpeg 0.5.7, 0.6.4, 0.7.9, 0.8.8

We have made 4 new point releases, (0.5.7, 0.6.4, 0.7.9 and 0.8.8). They contain some bug fixes, minor changes and security fixes. Note, CVE-2011-4352, CVE-2011-4579, CVE-2011-4353, CVE-2011-4351, CVE-2011-4364 and the addition of avcodec_open2() for libx264 have been fixed/done in previous 0.7 and 0.8 point releases already. We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master. We recommend everyone to upgrade to at least 0.7.8, 0.8.7 or 0.9.

December 23, 2011, Call For Maintainers

FFmpeg is moving faster than ever before, and with your help we could move even faster. If you know C and git and want to maintain some part of FFmpeg you can help us. Clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git, pick an area of the codebase you want to maintain, subscribe to ffmpeg-devel and start hacking on the code you are interested in, review patches on the mailing list, and fix bugs from our bug tracker that are related to the area you want to maintain. Once you are happy with your work just send us a link to your public git clone (for example from Github). Non-programmers are welcome to contribute too. We are also searching for someone to make new official Debian and Ubuntu packages, that would be part of the official distributions. If you have questions, just ask on ffmpeg-devel mailing list or our IRC channel #ffmpeg-devel.

December 20, 2011, Winter logo

Our winter logo has been drawn by Daniel Perez from Google Code-In. FFmpeg has teamed up with VideoLAN to help pre-university students contribute to open-source projects. See the Google Code-In VideoLAN project page if you would like to contribute.

We would also like to thank our students who have already participated.

December 11, 2011, FFmpeg 0.9

We have made a new major release (0.9) It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch. A partial list of new stuff is below:

native dirac decoder
mmsh seeking
more accurate rgb->rgb in swscale
MPO file format reading support
mandelbrot fraktal video source
libass filter
export quarter_sample & divx_packed from decoders
VBLE decoder
libopenjpeg encoder
alpha opaqueness fixes in many codecs
8bit palette dynamic range fixes in many codecs
AVIOInterruptCB
OS/2 threads support
cbr mp3 muxing fix
sample rate change support in flv (nellymoser decoder)
mov/mp4 chunking support (equivalent to mp4boxs -inter)
mov/mp4 fragment support (equivalent to mp4boxs -frag)
rgba tiffs
x264rgb bugfix
cljrencoder with dither
escape130 decoder
many new ARM optimizations
-report
Dxtory capture format decoder
life video source
wtv, sox, utvideo and many other new regression tests
gcc coverage support
cellauto video source
planar rgb input support in sws
libmodplug & bintext output
g723.1 encoder
g723.1 muxer
random() function for the expression evaluator
persistent variables for the expression evaluator
pulseaudio input support
h264 422 inter decoding support
prores encoder
native utvideo decoder
libutvideo support
deshake filter
aevalsrc filter
segment muxer
mkv timecode v2 muxer
cache urlprotocol
libaacplus support
ACT/BIT demuxers
AMV video encoder
g729 decoder
stdin control of drawtext
2bpp, 4bpp png support
interlaced 1bpp and PAETH png fixes
libspeex encoding support
hardened h264 decoder that wont overread the bitstream
wtv muxer
H/W Accelerated H.264 Decoding on Android
stereo3d filter from libmpcodecs works now
an experimental jpeg2000 encoder
many bugfixes
libswresample

We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

December 10, 2011, Donations

Want to donate to FFmpeg? Well, theres no way to do that currently. Luckily we dont need any money. But there are many not for profit organizations with noble goals that do. Select one of your choice that you trust and agree with their goals and instead of donating to FFmpeg, send your donation to them.

November 29, 2011, Google Code-in

The FFmpeg project participates for the first time in Google Code-in. Thanks go to the VideoLAN project for making this possible! We welcome all eligible students to pick up some task and win a T-Shirt or some money from google and at the same time have some fun and contribute to a Free software project.

November 21, 2011

We have made 2 new point releases (0.7.8 and 0.8.7) that fix many bugs, several of which are security relevant. Amongth them NGS00144, NGS00145 and NGS00148. We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

November 20, 2011

FFmpeg supports the fight against American Internet censorship.

November 6, 2011

We have made a new point release (0.5.5) from the old 0.5 branch. It fixes many serious security issues, a partial list is below.

d39cc3c0 resample2: fix potential overflow
e124c3c2 resample: Fix overflow
8acc0546 matroskadec: fix out of bounds write
c603cf51 qtrle: check for out of bound writes.
e1a46eff qtrle: check for invalid line offset
23aaa82b vqa: fix double free on corrupted streams
58087a4e mpc7: return error if packet is too small.
8d1fa1c9 mpc7: check output buffer size before decoding
2eb5f77b h264: do not let invalid values in h->ref_count after a decoder reset.
ddbbe500 h264: fix the check for invalid SPS:num_ref_frames.
d1a5b53e h264: do not let invalid values in h->ref_count on ff_h264_decode_ref_pic_list_reordering() errors.
3699a46e Check for out of bound writes in the QDM2 decoder.
62da9203 Check for out of bound writes in the avs demuxer.
2e1e3c1e Check for corrupted data in avs demuxer.
635256a3 Fix out of bound writes in fix_bitshift() of the shorten decoder.
240546a1 Check for out of bounds writes in the Delphine Software International CIN decoder.
07df40db Check for invalid update parameters in vmd video decoder.
b24c2e59 Release old pictures after a resolution change in vp5/6 decoder
25bc1108 Check output buffer size in nellymoser decoder.
8ef917c0 check all svq3_get_ue_golomb() returns.
648dc680 Reject audio tracks with invalid interleaver parameters in RM demuxer.
d6f8b654 segafilm: Check for memory allocation failures in segafilm demuxer.
d8439f04 rv34: check that subsequent slices have the same type as first one.
6108f04d Fixed segfault on corrupted smacker streams in the demuxer.
b261ebfd Fixed segfaults on corruped smacker streams in the decoder.
03db051b Fixed segfault with wavpack decoder on corrupted decorrelation terms sub-blocks.
9cda3d79 rv10: Reject slices that does not have the same type as the first one
52b8edc9 oggdec: fix out of bound write in the ogg demuxer
2e17744a Fixed off by one packet size allocation in the smacker demuxer.
19431d4d ape demuxer: fix segfault on memory allocation failure.
ecd6fa11 Check for invalid packet size in the smacker demuxer.
80fb9f2c cavsdec: avoid possible crash with crafted input
46f9a620 Fix possible double free when encoding using xvid.
4f07a3aa Fix memory (re)allocation in matroskadec.c, related to MSVR-11-0080. Fixes: MSVR11-011, CVE-2011-3504
04888ede cavs: fix some crashes with invalid bitstreams Fixes CVE-2011-3362, CVE-2011-3973, CVE-2011-3974
24cd7c5d Fix apparently exploitable race condition.
8210ee22 AMV: Fix possibly exploitable crash. Fixes http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2011/Apr/257

We recommend distributors and system integrators whenever possible to upgrade to 0.7.7, 0.8.6 or git master. But when this is not possible 0.5.5 is more secure than previous releases from the 0.5 branch. If you are looking for an updated 0.6 release, please consider 0.7.7 which is ABI compatible and contains a huge number of security fixes that are missing in 0.6.*.

November 4, 2011

We have made 2 new point releases (0.7.7 and 0.8.6) that fix around 90 bugs, several of which are security relevant. We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

October 29, 2011

New stuff in git master:

planar rgb input support in sws
libmodplug & bintext output
g723.1 encoder
g723.1 muxer
random() function for the expression evaluator
persistent variables for the expression evaluator
pulseaudio input support
h264 422 inter decoding support
prores encoder
native utvideo decoder
libutvideo support
deshake filter
aevalsrc filter
segment muxer
mkv timecode v2 muxer
cache urlprotocol
many bugfixes and many other things

October 2, 2011

We have made 2 new point releases (0.7.6 and 0.8.5) that fix security issues in

4X Technologies demuxer
4xm decoder
ADPCM IMA Electronic Arts EACS decoder
ANM decoder
Delphine Software International CIN decoder
Deluxe Paint Animation demuxer
Electronic Arts CMV decoder
PTX decoder
QDM2 decoder
QuickDraw decoder
TIFF decoder
Tiertex Limited SEQ decoder
aac decoder
avi demuxer
avs demuxer
bink decoder
flic decoder
h264 decoder
indeo2 decoder
jpeg 2000 decoder,
libx264 interface to x264 encoder
mov muxer
mpc v8 decoder
rasterfile decode
shorten decoder
sun raster decoder
unsharp filter
vmd audio decoder
vmd video decoder
wmapro decoder
wmavoice decoder
xan decoder

These releases also add libaacplus support and include all changes from libav.org 0.7.2.
We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

September 28, 2011

New stuff in git master:

    libaacplus support
    ACT/BIT demuxers
    AMV video encoder
    g729 decoder
    stdin control of drawtext
    2bpp, 4bpp png support
    interlaced 1bpp and PAETH png fixes
    libspeex encoding support
    hardened h264 decoder that wont overread the bitstream
    wtv muxer
    H/W Accelerated H.264 Decoding on Android
    stereo3d filter from libmpcodecs works now
    an experimental jpeg2000 encoder
    many bugfixes
    libswresample
    ...

September 22, 2011

We have made 2 new point releases that fix more security issues. They also include many bugfixes and a few backported features, for example speex encoding support through libspeex has been backported. All changes from the latest libav release (0.7.1) are included as well. Grab them from our download page. or even better use latest git master.

September 15, 2011

FFmpeg now has a ProRes decoder in master git.

We want to support more raw or 10bit or broadcast codecs. We need samples of the following codecs. If you have some, please upload them to our trac.

Codec name / isom or fourcc

Pinnacle TARGA2000	dvr1
Pinnacle TARGA Cine YUV	Y216
BlackMagic Design 	Vr21
Digital Voodoo DV10 HD10
Media-100 844/X Uncompressed v.2.02	MYUV
Media-100 iFinish Transcoder 	dtmt
Accom SphereOUS v.3.0.1 	ImJG
Abekas ClipStore MXc J2K Compressed v.3.0.2	HDJ1 HDJK
BOXX v.1.0	bxrg bxbg bxyv bxy2
LiveType Codec Decompressor	pRiz
Cineon DPX 10-bit Y'CbCr 4:2:2	D210 C310 DPX cini
Radius DV YUV PAL/NTSC	R420 R411

September 7, 2011

We have made 2 new point releases that fix several security issues, amongth them MSVR-11-0088. They also include many bugfixes and a few backported features. All changes from the latest libav release (0.7.1) are included as well. Grab them from our download page. or even better use latest git master.

August 29, 2011

We have added support for H.264 4:2:2 intra, there are some new 8->10bit fixes in swscale, ffplay has more accurate AV-sync, ogg duration is more accurate now, we can decode WMVP and WVP2 streams and many many other new things and bugfixes. All in ffmpeg git master.

July 28, 2011

We have made 2 new point releases that fix several security issues, amongth them MSVR-11-0080. They also include many bugfixes and a few backported features. All changes from libav 0.7.1 are included as well. Grab them from our download page. or even better use latest git master.

June 24, 2011

Instead of having fun outside in the warm summer months, we have made a new release: FFmpeg 0.8! All bugfixes and merges from ffmpeg-mt and libav are included in this release. Although we still recommend you use the latest git version of our code.

We have also made an OLDABI release: FFmpeg 0.7.1. It contains almost all of the features, bugfixes and merges of ffmpeg-mt and libav of 0.8, while being compatible with the 0.6 ABI and API. It has a few missing features, read the Changelog for more information.

May 3, 2011

FFmpeg now accesses x264 presets via libx264. This extends functionality by introducing several new libx264 options including -preset, -tune, and -profile. You can read more detailed information about these options with "x264 --fullhelp".

The syntax has changed so be sure to update your commands. Example:

ffmpeg -i input -vcodec libx264 -preset fast -tune film -profile main -crf 22 -threads 0 output

April 27, 2011

FFmpeg now has an oldabi branch. It is updated to master but with the old ABI. Only fixes that break the old ABI are missing from this branch.

To access the oldabi branch, clone FFmpeg, then do

git checkout oldabi

To get back to latest FFmpeg, just run:

git checkout master

April 14, 2011

FFmpeg can now decode 9-bit and 10-bit H.264 streams, used in particular by AVCIntra 50.

April 4, 2011

In order to supply our release users with the newest features and bug fixes we are in the process of making a new release. The release will be based on the latest development tree while staying API/ABI compatible to the previous release.

Please download the release candidate and report problems to our bug tracker.

March 30, 2011

Win32 and Win64 builds of FFmpeg are now available at http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Please report any bugs to our bug tracker.

March 21, 2011

Today FFmpeg-mt, the multithreaded decoding branch, has been merged into FFmpeg. This has been a long awaited merge, and we would like to thank Alexander Strange for his patience and hard work.

Testing is appreciated and if you find any bugs please report them to our bug tracker.

March 21, 2011

The mailing lists have been fully migrated to ffmpeg.org!

The FFmpeg mailing lists were moved from sourceforge.net to mplayerhq.hu in April 2005, and moved from mplayerhq.hu to ffmpeg.org in 2011.

Unfortunately the lists were down for a few hours because of the abrupt shut down on the previous server[1]. We apologize for this interruption. Also we could not move the subscribers of the libav-user mailing list (libav-user is for application developers using libav* libraries from the FFmpeg project). Even though libav-user was not listed in the shut down announcement[1], it was also shut down.

If you are not yet subscribed we encourage you to do so now if you are interested in FFmpeg or multimedia or both. Visit our contacts page to find out more about the various mailing lists surrounding the FFmpeg project. You can also find the archives there if you like to browse the old posts.

As stated in the previous news entry we are in the process of recovering our project infrastructure. We will keep you posted.

• [1] mplayerhq.hu mailing list shut down announcement: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/129614

March 17, 2011

Reinhard Tartler backported several security fixes to the 0.5 release branch and made another point release, that is 0.5.4. Note, 0.5 is quite old and this release is mostly for those stuck with the 0.5 branch, and not so interesting for end users.

    Changelog between 0.5.3 and 0.5.4

- Fix memory corruption in WMV parsing (addresses CVE-2010-3908)
- Fix heap corruption crashes (addresses CVE-2011-0722)
- Fix crashes in Vorbis decoding found by zzuf (addresses CVE-2010-4704)
- Fix another crash in Vorbis decoding (addresses CVE-2011-0480, Chrome issue 68115)
- Fix invalid reads in VC-1 decoding (related to CVE-2011-0723)
- Do not attempt to decode APE file with no frames
  (addresses http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/1103-exploits/vlc105-dos.txt)

March 15, 2011

FFmpeg has been forked by some developers after their attempted takeover[1] two months ago did not fully succeed. During these two months their repository was listed here as main FFmpeg repository. We corrected this now and list the actual main repository and theirs directly below. All improvements of their fork have been merged into the main repository already.

Sadly we lost a not so minor part of our infrastructure to the forking side. We are still in the process of recovering, but web, git and issue tracker are already replaced.

Readers who want to find out more about the recent happenings are encouraged to read through the archives of the FFmpeg development mailing list[2]. There was also a bit of coverage on some news sites like here [3].

• [1] Takeover: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/123868
• [2] GMANE FFmpeg development mailing list archive: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel
• [3] LWN.net Article: http://lwn.net/Articles/423702/

February 24, 2011

FFmpeg development has moved to Git, and the SVN repository is no longer updated. The SVN repository may be removed in a near future, so you're recommended to use a Git repository instead.

The last revision committed to SVN was r26402 on 2011-01-19 and replaced the svn:external libswscale with a standalone copy.

Oct 18, 2010

We have just pushed the first point release from our 0.6 release branch: FFmpeg 0.6.1. This is a maintenance-only release that addresses a small number of bugs and security issues. It also adds a newer version of the AAC decoder, which enables the playback of HE-AAC v2 media.

We have also taken the time make another point release our 0.5 branch: FFmpeg 0.5.3. It is a maintenance-only release that addresses a security issue and a minor set of bugs.

Distributors and system integrators are encouraged to update and share their patches against our release branches.

June 15, 2010

A bit longer than actually expected, but finally, we are proud to announce a new release: FFmpeg 0.6. Check out the release notes and changelog.

It is codenamed "Works with HTML5" as the special focus of this release were improvements for the new multimedia elements in HTML5. The H.264 and Theora decoders are now significantly faster and the Vorbis decoder has seen important updates. This release supports Google's newly released libvpx library for the VP8 codec and the Matroska demuxer was extended to support to WebM container.

This release includes again an extensive number of changes; some of its highlights are:

• Significant work to support at least decoding of all widespread mainstream proprietary codecs, and as usual broad coverage of widespread non-proprietary codecs, such as:
  • decoders and encoders
    • VP8 (via Google's libvpx library)
  • decoders
    • AMR-NB
    • Atrac1
    • HE-AAC v1
    • Bink
    • Bluray (PGS) subtitle
    • MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)
    • WMA Pro
    • WMA Voice
• Highlights among the newly supported container formats:
  • demuxers and muxers
    • Adobe Filmstrip
    • SoX native format
    • WebM support in Matroska de/muxer
  • demuxers
    • Bink
    • Core Audio Format
    • Dirac in Ogg
    • IV8
    • QCP
    • VQF
    • Wave64
  • muxers
    • IEC-61937
    • RTSP
• faster AAC decoding
• faster H.264 decoding
• numerous ARM optimizations
• important updates to the Vorbis decoder
• RTP packetization support for H.263, and AMR
• RTP depacketization support for AMR, ASF, H.263, Theora and Vorbis
• RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
• the new ffprobe tool
• VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
• and so much more!

June 2, 2010

We are pleased to announce that FFmpeg will be present at LinuxTag in Berlin June 9-12 where we will be showing some spectacular demos. There will also be some trolls.

May 25, 2010

We have just pushed out another point release from our 0.5 release branch: FFmpeg 0.5.2. This is a maintenance-only release that addresses a small number of security and portability issues. Distributors and system integrators are encouraged to update and share their patches against this branch.

March 19, 2010

Once again, FFmpeg has been accepted to take part in the Google Summer of Code. Here is the Google SoC FFmpeg page.

We have a list of proposed project ideas available so, if you think you might be interested, head over there to see if there is any project on which you wish to work and for which you may wish to make an application. The list is still in flux, and you're free to come up with your own ideas, but note that proposals should be closely tied to the progression of FFmpeg's code base.

We would like prospective students to show us that they've got what it takes to be a contributor to FFmpeg. If you think you're suited, then please complete a small task before submitting your Summer-of-Code proposal. Note that many of the proposed Summer-of-Code projects have specific tasks that you would want to work on, since they would show us that you're comfortable in that particular piece of our codebase that relates to your specific project. Send patches to the mailing list for review, so that you will learn about our patch review process, inline replying (because we don't like top-posting on our mailing lists) and general interactions with our developer base.

The sooner you start communicating with us and working within our code base, the sooner both you and we will ascertain your suitability and you will get used to our development methodology. You have until the application deadline to complete your small task. Good luck!

March 2, 2010

We have just pushed out a point release from our 0.5 release branch: FFmpeg 0.5.1. This release fixes security, packaging and licensing issues for FFmpeg 0.5, but it is a maintenance only release; no new codecs, formats or other feature are being introduced. The full details are spelled out in the the release notes and changelog.

There have been security fixes for the ASF, Ogg and MOV/MP4 demuxers as well as the FFv1, H.264, HuffYUV, MLP, MPEG audio and Snow decoders. libswscale can now be compiled in LGPL mode, albeit with x86 optimizations disabled. Some non-free bits in a test program were replaced. The AC-3 decoder is now completely LGPL. AMR-NB/WB support is now possible in free software through the OpenCORE libraries.

To help packagers, the x264 glue code was updated to work with newer versions and symbol versioning was backported, as was the lock management API. The symbol versioning change is enabled on platforms that support it. This allows users to upgrade from 0.5.1 to the upcoming 0.6 release without having to recompile their applications. While this release is both API and ABI compatible with 0.5, please note that distributors have to recompile applications against 0.5.1 in order to make seamless upgrades to 0.6 possible.

March 1, 2010

We have been busy over the past few months. Among other things, the results are an Indeo 5 video decoder as well as audio decoders for AMR-NB, Sipro, MPEG-4 ALS and WMA Voice, complete support for Bink, CDG and IFF PBM/ILBM bitmaps, an RTSP muxer, Bluray (PGS) subtitle support, a protocol for file concatenation and the ffprobe tool for extracting information from multimedia files.

September 23, 2009

In 1992 Sony introduced the first Minidisc player. 17 years later it is now possible to transfer and play back the raw ATRAC data from the actual digital disc with the help of FFmpeg, tools developed by the Linux Minidisc project and official hardware (MZ-RH1). So if you have lots of digital recordings stored on Minidisc now is the time to archive it all.

One of the last entrenchments of proprietary multimedia has fallen: Windows Media Audio Pro support is finally available in FFmpeg. It decodes all known samples flawlessly and is considerably faster than the binary decoder from Microsoft. A big thank you goes out to all the reverse engineers and programmers who made this possible. It really was a herculean effort.

August 24, 2009

Just a very short time after its launch (~10 years), FFmpeg now supports decoding of TwinVQ (remember .vqf files?). Now FOSS enthusiasts can finally contribute to the late 90's discussion if it sounds better than MP3 or not.

July 24, 2009

FFmpeg has removed support for libamr as of svn revision 19365. It has been replaced with support for libopencore-amr. Naturally the configure options have changed. The libamr options have been removed and there are two new options to take their place:

• --enable-libopencore-amrnb
• --enable-libopencore-amrwb

The reason for this change is that the libamr license was non-free, while libopencore-amr is licensed under an Apache 2 license. The change was discussed at length on the developer mailing list during May, June, and July. This has several effects:

• You may now distribute FFmpeg builds with support for dynamically loading libopencore-amr
• Support for AMR-WB encoding has been removed since libopencore-amr does not support it

May 7, 2009

FFmpeg was granted 9 slots to fill with applicants. After the gruelling application and qualification process, we will be running the following tasks this year:

• RTMP Support
  • Student: Kostya Shiskov
  • Mentor: Ronald Bultje
• Libswscale Cleanup
  • Student: Ramiro Polla
  • Mentor: Reimar Döffinger
• S/PDIF Multiplexer
  • Student: Bartlomiej Wolowiec
  • Mentor: Benjamin Larsson
• Playlist/Concatenation Support
  • Student: Geza Kovacs
  • Mentor: Baptiste Coudurier
• JPEG2000 Codec
  • Student: Jai Menon
  • Mentor: Justin Ruggles
• Implement the New Seeking API in Libavformat
  • Student: Zhentan Feng
  • Mentor: Baptiste Coudurier
• MPEG-4 ALS Decoder
  • Student: Thilo Borgmann
  • Mentor: Justin Ruggles
• Implementation of AVFilter infrastructure and various audio filters
  • Student: Kevin Dubois
  • Mentor: Vitor Sessak
• Finish AMR-NB decoder and write an encoder
  • Student: Colin McQuillan
  • Mentor: Robert Swain

Congratulations to all the successful applicants. Work hard, communicate well and prosper! Good luck!

March 26, 2009

Once again, FFmpeg has been accepted to take part in the Google Summer of Code. Here is the Google SoC FFmpeg page.

We have a list of proposed project ideas available so, if you think you might be interested, head over there to see if there is any project on which you wish to work and for which you may wish to make an application. The list is still in flux, and you're free to come up with your own ideas, but note that proposals should be closely tied to the progression of FFmpeg's code base.

If you're a student who thinks you have what it takes, we require that prospective students complete some degree of small task before they will be considered to take part in the program for FFmpeg. Take a look at the list, pick something to do, learn about inline replying because we don't like top-posting on our mailing lists and then tell us on the FFmpeg-devel mailing list your small task of choice.

The sooner you start communicating with us and working within our code base, the sooner both you and we will ascertain your suitability and you will get used to our development methodology. You have until the application deadline to complete your small task. Good luck!

March 23, 2009

A new mailing list has been created for ffserver users. The list is intended to create an environment for discussion amongst ffserver users so that they can better receive support and support each other. Interested parties can subscribe and view the archives via the contact page.

March 10, 2009

It has been a very long time since we last made a release and many did not think we would make one again but, back by popular demand, we are proud to announce a new release: FFmpeg 0.5. Check out the release notes and changelog.

It is codenamed "half-way to world domination A.K.A. the belligerent blue bike shed" to give an idea where we stand in the grand scheme of things and to commemorate the many fruitful discussions we had during its development.

This release includes a very extensive number of changes, but some of the highlights are:

• Significant work to support at least decoding of all widespread mainstream proprietary codecs, such as:
  • decoders and encoders
    • ALAC
    • Flash Screen Video
    • WMAv2 decoder fixed, WMAv1/v2 encoder
  • decoders
    • Atrac3
    • MLP/TrueHD
    • On2 VP3 improvements and VP5/VP6 support
    • RealAudio Cooker and fixes for 14.4 and 28.8
    • RealVideo RV30/40
    • WMV3/WMV9/VC-1 and IntraX8 frame support for WMV2/VC-1
• Broad coverage of widespread non-proprietary codecs, including:
  • decoders and encoders
    • DNxHD
    • DVCPRO50 (a.k.a. DV50)
    • Floating point PCM
    • GSM-MS
    • Theora (and encoding via libtheora)
    • Vorbis
  • decoders
    • AAC with ADTS support and >2x the speed of FAAD! (no HE AAC support yet)
    • AC-3 that is faster than liba52 in 5.1, up to 2x faster in stereo and also supports E-AC-3! Hence liba52 is now obsolete.
    • DCA
    • DVCPRO HD (a.k.a. DV100)
    • H.264 PAFF and CQM support, plus slice-based multithreaded decoding
    • Monkey's Audio
    • MPEG-2 video support for intra VLC and 4:2:2
    • Musepack
    • QCELP
    • Shorten
    • True Audio (TTA)
    • Wavpack including hybrid mode support
• Highlights among the newly supported container formats:
  • demuxers and muxers
    • GXF
    • MXF
  • demuxers
    • NullSoft Video (NSV)
  • muxers
    • iPhone/iPod compatibility for MP4/MOV
    • Matroska
    • NUT
    • Ogg (FLAC, Theora and Vorbis only)
    • ShockWave Flash (SWF)
• libavdevice
• ffserver is working again.
• a shiny, new, completely revamped, non-recursive build system
• cleaner, more consistent code
• an all new metadata API
• and so much more!

March 4, 2009

Google are again running their Summer of Code program and, as usual, we will be applying for a project position. As such we will need strong project proposals and qualification tasks for the students to complete.

To all the students out there who want to work on FFmpeg over the summer, the sooner you begin to contribute to the project the better. Working on digital multimedia software is not the easiest task and getting code into FFmpeg's trunk repository demands significant rigor and commitment.

Until we are officially accepted into the program, you could take a look at the list of small tasks we have and try to complete one of those. Support for development of FFmpeg is available via the FFmpeg-devel mailing list or IRC.

December 20, 2008

RealVideo 3.0 decoder added. Still working the bugs out, please test and report any problems.

December 20, 2008

The FFmpeg project would like to recognize and thank the people at Picsearch for their help improving FFmpeg recently. The Picsearch team makes extensive use of FFmpeg and provided feedback to FFmpeg in the form of thousands of files that either crash FFmpeg or use unsupported/unknown codecs. The FFmpeg development team is putting this information to work in order to improve FFmpeg for everyone.

We know that there are other organizations using FFmpeg on a large scale to process diverse input types. The FFmpeg team invites those organizations to provide similar feedback about problems encountered in the wild.

December 3, 2008

A bunch of new formats have recently been added to FFmpeg, namely a QCELP/PureVoice speech decoder, a floating point PCM decoder and encoder, a Nellymoser ASAO encoder, an Electronic Arts TGQ decoder, Speex decoding via libspeex, an MXF muxer, an ASS/SSA subtitle demuxer and muxer and our AC-3 decoder has been extended with E-AC-3 support. Last but not least we now have a decoder for RealVideo 4.0.

September 8, 2008

FFmpeg is undergoing major changes in its API/ABI. The last valid revision for libavcodec version 51 is r15261.

August 21, 2008

The AAC decoder from FFmpeg Summer of Code 2006 has finally been cleaned up and is now in FFmpeg trunk. It supports Main and Low Complexity profile AAC but does not yet support HE AAC v1 (LC + SBR) or v2 (LC + SBR + PS), though implementation of this support is underway. It is considerably faster than FAAD and you should expect further performance improvements and bug fixes in the coming weeks.

Also, FFmpeg now has floating point PCM support and supports MLP/TrueHD decoding (FFmpeg SoC 2008 should bring us an encoder), Apple Lossless Audio encoding (FFmpeg SoC 2008) MVI demuxing and Motion Pixels Video decoding, D-Cinema audio muxing, Electronic Arts CMV and TGV decoding and MAXIS EA XA demuxing/decoding.

June 16, 2008

UAB "DKD" (dkd.lt) have released a Nellymoser ASAO compatible decoder and encoder under the LGPL. This will aid the development of a native encoder in FFmpeg, and right now a GSoC student is working hard on just that task. A great thanks to UAB "DKD" for this contribution to the FFmpeg community.

June 11, 2008

We have added an Oma demuxer, the QuickTime variant of an IMA ADPCM encoder, a VFW grabber, an iPod/iPhone-compatible MP4 muxer, a Mimic decoder, an MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer as well as demuxers and decoders for the following fringe formats: RL2, IFF, 8SVX, BFI.

February 7, 2008

We have added Ogg and AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxers, TechnoTrend PVA and Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxers, PC Paintbrush PCX and Sun Rasterfile decoders.

November 11, 2007

FFmpeg now supports XIntra8 frames, meaning that finally all WMV2 samples and some WMV3 samples that showed blocky color artifacts can be decoded correctly.

October 22, 2007

Beam Software SIFF demuxer and video decoder support added.

October 15, 2007

FFmpeg gets support for the Nellymoser speech codec used in flash.

October 9, 2007

Apart from a DNxHD encoder, PAFF decoding support for H.264 was committed to SVN.

September 29, 2007

AMV audio and video decoding has arrived.

September 13, 2007

In about half a year of work since the last update we have added among other things: DXA and Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder, DNxHD, Atrac3 and AC-3 decoders, QTRLE encoder, NUT and Matroska muxers.

July 14, 2007

FFmpeg got 8 projects this year in the Google Summer of Code program. Check out the FFmpeg SoC about page for more information.

March 09, 2007

Nine months without news but with heavy development. A few select highlights are decoders for VC-1/WMV3/WMV9, VMware, VP5, VP6 video and WavPack, IMC, DCA audio and a WMA encoder.