Multimedia Powerhouse FFmpeg Hits 3.0

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:12PM from the foundational-support dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The milestone release FFmpeg 3.0 "Einstein" has been unleashed. For those who need a reminder, FFmpeg comprises several libraries and command-line tools (the main command-line tool being "ffmpeg") that encode, decode, transcode, and stream audio/visual data, etc. FFmpeg supports a multitude of codecs, filters, and container formats too numerous to mention here. FFmpeg is used by MPlayer, VLC, HandBrake, Chrome, and many other projects. Changes from 2.x to 3.0 include: a much better native AAC encoder, better hardware acceleration, and some API/ABI breakage. See this, this, this, this, and the changelog for much better descriptions of the improvements.

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Re:Not on Mint by invictusvoyd · 2016-02-23 14:48 · Score: 4, Funny

Define risk : Unpatched FFmpeg on a compromised mint ISO
Re:fast encoding? by squiggleslash · 2016-02-24 03:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Under Gentoo it's more like 7.35-7.7.

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