New FFmpeg 0.5 release: "half-way to world domination A.K.A. the belligerent blue bike shed"

Mar 10, 2009, 17:31 (2 Talkback[s])

"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"

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