Changes in 4.0
- Bitstream filters for editing metadata in H.264, HEVC and MPEG-2 streams
- Dropped support for OpenJPEG versions 2.0 and below. Using OpenJPEG now requires 2.1 (or later) and pkg-config.
- VDA dropped (use VideoToolbox instead)
- MagicYUV encoder
- Raw AMR-NB and AMR-WB demuxers
- TiVo ty/ty+ demuxer
- Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding
- PCE support for extended channel layouts in the AAC encoder
- native aptX and aptX HD encoder and decoder
- Raw aptX and aptX HD muxer and demuxer
- NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding
- Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter
- mcompand audio filter
- acontrast audio filter
- OpenCL overlay filter
- video mix filter
- video normalize filter
- audio lv2 wrapper filter
- VAAPI MJPEG and VP8 decoding
- AMD AMF H.264 and HEVC encoders
- video fillborders filter
- video setrange filter
- nsp demuxer
- support LibreSSL (via libtls)
- AVX-512/ZMM support added
- Dropped support for building for Windows XP. The minimum supported Windows version is Windows Vista.
- deconvolve video filter
- entropy video filter
- hilbert audio filter source
- aiir audio filter
- aiff: add support for CD-ROM XA ADPCM
- Removed the ffserver program
- Removed the ffmenc and ffmdec muxer and demuxer
- VideoToolbox HEVC encoder and hwaccel
- VAAPI-accelerated ProcAmp (color balance), denoise and sharpness filters
- Add android_camera indev
- codec2 en/decoding via libcodec2
- muxer/demuxer for raw codec2 files and .c2 files
- Moved nvidia codec headers into an external repository. They can be found at http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg/nv-codec-headers.git
- native SBC encoder and decoder
- drmeter audio filter
- hapqa_extract bitstream filter
- filter_units bitstream filter
- AV1 Support through libaom
- E-AC-3 dependent frames support
- bitstream filter for extracting E-AC-3 core
- Haivision SRT protocol via libsrt
- segafilm muxer
- vfrdet filter
- SRCNN filter