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Saturday, November 28, 2015

FFmpeg 2.4.1 "Fresnel" released with Updated Libraries & Bugfixes


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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Monday, November 23, 2015

Video Editor, FFmpeg 2.5.2 "Bohr" released with Updated Libraries & Fixes

Video Editor, FFmpeg 2.5.2 "Bohr" released with Updated Libraries & Fixes

FFmpeg developers officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.5.2 "Bohr" with minor changes and bugfixes. This is the latest stable release under 2.5.x series. Among lot of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2014-12-03 and libav 11 as of 2014-12-03.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.5.2 "Bohr" comes with updated library version such as libavutil 54.15.100, libavcodec 56.13.100, libavformat 56.15.102, libavdevice 56.3.100, libavfilter 5.2.103, libavresample 2.1.0, libswscale 3.1.101, libswresample 1.1.100 and libpostproc 53.3.100. You can also download the source tarball of FFmpeg 2.5.2 "Bohr" to compile it on your machine.

Many of you already knew that FFmpeg is a software which is used to record, convert and stream audio and video files on your system. This is one of the leading multimedia framework which allows you to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and transcoder any audio and video format. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Monday, November 16, 2015

FFmpeg 2.5.1 "Bohr" released with Updated Libraries & Minor Bugfixes

FFmpeg 2.5.1 "Bohr" released with Updated Libraries & Minor Bugfixes

FFmpeg developers officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.5.1 codenamed "Bohr" with new and updated packages. Well this is the first update under 2.5.x branch which primarily includes new features like AVFoundation screen-grabbing support, animated WebP decoding support and Animated PNG support. Aart from this, it also includes video streaming support including MPEG-DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer and UDP Lite support.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.5.1 comes with updated library packages such as libavutil 54.15.100, libavcodec 56.13.100, libavformat 56.15.102, libavdevice 56.3.100, libavfilter 5.2.103, libavresample 2.1.0, libswscale 3.1.101, libswresample 1.1.100 and libpostproc 53.3.100. The avpriv_dv_frame_profile2() is also deprecated from API in this release. You can also download the source tarball of FFmpeg 2.5.1 to compile it on your Linux machine.

Among other new changes, FFmpeg 2.5.1 "Bohr" includes -show_pixel_formats option in ffprobe, codec private options support in ffserver, xBR scaling filter in libavfilter, CAST128 symmetric block cipher, ECB mode in libavutil and visualization support in libpostproc. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Saturday, November 7, 2015

How to Install LiVES 2.2.5 (Video Editor) via PPA on Ubuntu Variants & Linux Mint


LiVES is a famous Video Editing Software and VJ tool which is available various Linux Distros. It mixes real time video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It is quite flexible tool used by both professional VJ's and video editors.

LiVES allows you to mix and switch clips from the keyboard, uses dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can also check various Video Editors available for Linux Distros.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install LiVES 2.2.5 (Video Editor) on our Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

Step Wise Installation of LiVES 2.2.5 (Video Editor) using PPA Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 1 : First open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for LiVES 2.2.5 on your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/lives
Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA of LiVES 2.2.5 in the software repository on your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo apt-get update
Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable LiVES 2.2.5 on your PPA based Linux Distros.
$ sudo apt-get install lives
After installation, search for "LiVES" either in Unity Dash or in Application. Launch the application and edit your favorite personal videos with the help of LiVES video editor.

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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr" released with Animated PNG Support & Updated Packages

FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr" released with Animated PNG Support & Updated Packages

FFmpeg developers officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.5 codenamed "Bohr" with new features and minor fixes. FFmpeg video transcoder is officially updated with new features and new additions in libraries. As you know that FFmpeg is a complete software which allows you to record, covert and stream audio and video files directly on your system.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr" comes with support for AVFoundation screen-grabbing along with support for animated WebP decoding and support for Animated PNG images. Apart from these support for animated formats, it also includes updated library versions such as libavutil 54.15.100, libavcodec 56.13.100, libavformat 56.15.102, libavdevice 56.2.100, libavfilter 5.2.103, libswscale 3.1.101, libswresample 1.1.100 and libpostproc 53.3.100. Also, review how to install FFmpeg on Ubuntu & Linux Mint ?

FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr" also includes several other exciting features for video streaming including MPEG-DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer and UDP Lite support. The important change in API in this release is the removal of avpriv_dv_frame_profile(2). Among other new features, it includes show_pixel_formats option in ffprobe, codec private options support in ffserver, xBR scaling filter in libavfilter, CAST128 symmetric block cipher, ECB mode in libavutil and visualization support in libpostproc. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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