FFmpeg Project Announces New Work

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FFmpeg Project Announces New Work

Since the release of FFmpeg 0.5 last year there hasn't been much information about this media project publicized beyond VDPAU MPEG-4 ASP acceleration and other features, but today there is a new announcement from this free software project. The FFmpeg project has accomplished now work on the Indeo 5 video decoder as well as the audio decoders for AMR-NB, Sipro, MPEG-4 ALS and WMA Voice, complete support for Bink, CDG and IFF PBM/ILBM bitmaps, an RTSP muxer, Bluray (PGS) subtitle support, a protocol for file concatenation, and the ffprobe tool for extracting information from multimedia files. The announcement can be found on the Ffmpeg web-site...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODAyNA

[illissius]

I totally read "New York".

Thought it was some kind of codename.

[lefevre00]

No news about CrystalHD support ! Too bad

[RoboJ1M]

Woo! Indeo! ??

Ah, memories...

...dreadful dreadful memories |)

J.

[NeoBrain]

I totally read "New York".

Thought it was some kind of codename.

lol same here

[Adarion]

Wow. Did they reverse engineer indeo? BAd memories, also. Had some old stuff compressed as indeo way back (when the codec was a freeware for windows) and then suddenly it disappeared and iirc. even a decoder was only available for $. Quite nasty. Had to recompress a lot.
Still nice to have something here.
I hope they also thought of huffyuv and that successor of it lagarith. Lossloess codecs and both of them should be GPL/LGPL but somebody explained me that lags used some improper things in coding so there were some problems.

[Adarion]

damn, was too slow to edit.
Nice to see BINK support! A lot of games use(d) that.

[Apopas]

The FFMPEG guys are amazing. FFMPEG is th heart of Linux multimedia.