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:Stability by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-23 18:05 · Score: 3, Insightful

My initial reaction:

Multimedia Powerhouse FFmpeg Hits 3.0
That's nice, but does it have a stable ABI yet?

and some API/ABI breakage
Welp.
It is a major release. Some breakage is expected. As long as you stay on the same major it should be stable.