FFmpeg 2.8 "Feynman" Switches Default Encoders for WebM to VP9 and Opus

Posted by hanuca on Sep 10, 2015 2:31 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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The FFmpeg developers had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the FFmpeg 2.8 open-source software used for recording, converting, and streaming audio and video.

The default WebM encoders have been replaced with the modern VP9 and Opus ones, the JPEG 2000 encoder is no longer considered experiemental, there's now support for DNx100 (1440x1080@8) and OS X VideoToolbox, along with a bitstream filter that can be used to convert HEVC from the MP4 file format to Annex B.

FFmpeg 2.8 "Feynman" also introduces numerous filters, among which we can mention erosion, inflate, deflate and dilation video filters, random filter, acrossfade audio filter, drawgraph video and adrawgraph audio filter, atadenoise video filter, showfreqs filter, waveform filter, framerate filter, vstack and hstack filter, and vectorscope filter.

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