[Aissen]

This screams for proper release notes. The official ones are pretty light (http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?p=ffmpeg.git;... ), and refer to the Changelog (http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?p=ffmpeg.git;... ) which is quite terse. Phoronix did some reformatting of the changelog, it's a bit easier to read:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FFmpeg-3....

But honestly this type of stuff should be done by the project before any release.

[ux → Aissen]

Yeah, sorry about that. It was indeed done in a hurry.

I think the main highlights are:

- The API/ABI break (implied by the major bump)

- The many improvements in the native AAC encoder making it the recommended one (libaacplus and libvo-aacenc are removed)

- A ton of filters were added

- Many ASM optimizations that weren't mentioned in the Changelog (it will take a while to make highlights on those, I don't remember them)

Hopefully a proper news will be posted soon. Sorry again.

[nattaylor → ux]

@imaginenore's comment below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11103063) has a detailed list of the 29! new filters.

[chx → nattaylor]

Wait, are you @majorsheep ? If yes your illustrations are really good :) http://www.king-sheep.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-fan-ar...

[nattaylor → chx]

Nope. I can't take credit for the illustrations, but I might have to get in touch with Nathan since there is some nattaylor out there who likes to put my gmail address for all of their online services.

[cm2187 → ux]

Any plan to support QuickSync?

[JoshTriplett → cm2187]

Looking at the release notes, I see several mentions of QSV support.

[cm2187 → JoshTriplett]

I think earlier versions had an x264 module supporting QSV but which was never included in the official windows build. I wonder if that changed.