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FFmpeg developers officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.4.1 codenamed "Fresnel" with new features and bug fixes. As you know that two months ago, FFmpeg 2.3 was released and now they have released with minor improvements. As you all know that FFmpeg is a popular audio/video recorder, converter and streamer.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.4.1 "Fresnel" comes with major version bump of libraries which means that this release of neither ABI-compatible nor fully API compatible. This release is aligned with the Libnav 11 release series and will as a result probably end up being maintained for a long time. Some of the new features are added in libavformat, libavfilter and libavutil.

There are lot of changes made in API since FFmpeg 2.3 release which includes removal of few deprecated functions, making of avfilter_graph_parse function compatible with Libnav, Matroska demuxer outputs verbatim ASS packets and addition of new field mime_type in AVProbeData which causes crashes if not initialized.

The updated libavformat comes with support for Icecast protocol along with support for H.261 RTP payload format. It also includes API for live metadata updates through event, UTF-16 support in text subtitles formats, ASS muxer now reorders the Dialogue events properly and HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format.

Among other changes, the libavfilter comes with addition of silenceremove filter, addition of codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs and large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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