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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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SoundConverter developers officially announces the release of SoundConverter 2.1.4 with minor bugfixes. SoundConverter is considered as one of the leading audio file converter for GNOME Desktop which works on GStreamer. It is used to convert GStreamer formats into other formats like Opus, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, AAC and MP3 files.

According to official announcement, SoundConverter 2.1.4 comes with fixed Ubuntu automatic plugin installation forever-loop by ignoring video codecs and also fixes converting multiple folders containing the same filenames as the same temporary files were created. This release also make sure that all file/folder choosers ae forced to local file-systems. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install SoundConverter 2.1.4 using Debian repository on Ubuntu 14.10. Well the following command can also work on Ubuntu 14.10 derivatives but may not on Ubuntu 14.04 derivatives. If you want to then do it at your own risk.

Step Wise Installation of SoundConverter 2.1.4 (Audio File Converter) using Debian repository on Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to copy the repo url in sources.list file on your Ubuntu 14.10 system.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to download archive key and add it using wget command on your Ubuntu 14.10 system.

Step 3 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added repository for SoundConverter on your Ubuntu 14.10 system.

Step 4 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable SoundConverter 2.1.4 on your Ubuntu 14.10 system.

After installation, search for "SoundConverter" in Unity Dash and then launch it from there to access all the features of SoundConverter on your machine. With the help of SoundConverter, you can easily convert one audio format into other directly on your system.

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