[Cin] ffmpeg 7.0 soon to be released

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 9:17 PM Phyllis Smith <phylsmith2017 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> FFmpeg 7.0 checked into GIT (previous version 6.1) thanks to Andrew updating numerous patches in ffmpeg plus another bunch in the cinelerra subdirectory (5 or so).  And thanks to Andrea and others for all of the testing and problem reporting.  If Andrew and Andrea can verify I did not make any mistakes on checking it in, that would be highly appreciated!  ...Phyllis

Builds  fine as static ffmpeg 7.0 (default) version on Slackware  15.0
i586, loads and seeks in avi fine.
Builds as dynamic version against system's ffmpeg 6.1 on
termux/aarch64 and loads/plays m2ts file fine.

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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:08 PM Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It already branched
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>> changelog says:
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>> version 7.0:
>> - DXV DXT1 encoder
>> - LEAD MCMP decoder                                                          - EVC decoding using external library libxevd                    - EVC encoding using external library libxeve
>> - QOA decoder and demuxer
>> - aap filter                                                                                - demuxing, decoding, filtering, encoding, and muxing in the ffmpeg CLI now all run in parallel                            - enable gdigrab device to grab a window using the hwnd=HANDLER syntax
>> - IAMF raw demuxer and muxer                                          - D3D12VA hardware accelerated H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, MPEG-2 and VC1 decoding
>>  - tiltandshift filter                                                                  - qrencode filter and qrencodesrc source
>> - quirc filter                                                                              - lavu/eval: introduce randomi() function in expressions
>> - VVC decoder
>> - fsync filter
>> - Raw Captions with Time (RCWT) closed caption muxer
>> - ffmpeg CLI -bsf option may now be used for input as well as output
>> - ffmpeg CLI options may now be used as -/opt <path>, which is equivalent
>>   to -opt <contents of file <path>>
>> - showinfo bitstream filter
>> - a C11-compliant compiler is now required; note that this requirement
>>   will be bumped to C17 in the near future, so consider updating your
>>   build environment if it lacks C17 support
>> - Change the default bitrate control method from VBR to CQP for QSV encoders.
>> - removed deprecated ffmpeg CLI options -psnr and -map_channel
>> - DVD-Video demuxer, powered by libdvdnav and libdvdread
>> - ffprobe -show_stream_groups option
>> - ffprobe (with -export_side_data film_grain) now prints film grain metadata
>> - AEA muxer
>> - ffmpeg CLI loopback decoders
>> - Support PacketTypeMetadata of PacketType in enhanced flv format
>> - ffplay with hwaccel decoding support (depends on vulkan renderer via libplacebo)
>> - dnn filter libtorch backend
>> - Android content URIs protocol
>>
>> ====
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>> I also smell  more breakage :)
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>> not sure if I want/will able to catch up with them, may be we should stick to some branch instead of chasing latest.
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