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FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The free software FFmpeg multi-media library that's used by VLC, MPlayer, Chrome, and many other software projects has reached version 1.0 after being in development since 2000. The 1.0 release incorporates new filters/decoders and other A/V enhancements. The code is available from FFmpeg.org."

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  1. Re:Which binary is 1.0? by hobarrera · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://ffmpeg.org/download.html#releases

  2. Big thanks to the developers by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 5, Informative

    For all their ardous work!

    FFMpeg donations page is here:
    http://ffmpeg.org/donations.html

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    1. Re:Big thanks to the developers by Abreu · · Score: 4, Informative

      PayPal es del Diablo.

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    2. Re:Big thanks to the developers by KritonK · · Score: 3, Informative

      Libav is a fork of ffmpeg, even if its developers, who are former ffmpeg develeopers, claim otherwise.

      Libav proponents argue that theirs is the better fork.

      Others say the opposite.

      Trying to decide which fork to use, I read these two accounts and concluded that both(!) were saying "stick with ffmpeg". If you are interested in the issue, read these two references and decide for yourself.

  3. Re:MPEG-LA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. ffmpeg people don't distribute binaries and our mostly outside the US. MPEG-LA has repeatedly affirmed that source code alone is fine with them. This had been affirmed by Ryan Rodriguez of MPEG-LA that shipping source code is not a product.

    http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1431854#post1431854

    There's plenty reasons to dislike MPEG-LA without making shit up.

  4. ffmbc by illtud · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're in broadcast, check out ffmbc a broadcast-oriented ffmpeg fork. My dabbling has been with producing IMX (SMTPE D10) as an archival format for video and film archive digitiziation and although you can cook it up with ffmpeg, ffmbc makes it a doddle. The hard work has been done by the ffmpeg folks, and it's a wonderful tool.

    I used ffmpeg for producing a side-by-side video of a reference uncompressed YUV vs samples of MJPEG2000 & MPEG2 at various compression ratios for a double-blind subjective quality assessment together with overlaid captions - took me a day or so going from never having used it before. Think of it as ImageMagick for video, rather than just a transcoding library.

    Whilst I'm here, can I give a shout out for mediainfo(Hi Jerome!) as a technical metadata extraction tool for Video (if you're using it in an archival repository, use the mpeg7 or pbcore xml output - almost hidden features). Don't be fooled by the home page screenshot - the linux command line version is where it's at.