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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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HandBrake is a simple tool which is used for converting video from one format into other format and supports wide variety of music codecs. It process most of the common multimedia files along with support for Video Encoders like H.264, H.265 and Audio Encoders such as AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC, MP3 and Flac.

Other key features offered by HandBrake tool includes title/chapter selection, queue up multiple encodes, chapter markers, subtitles, constant quality or average bitrate video encoding, support for VFR, CFR and VFR and live Video previews. 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 HandBrake 0.10 using PPA on Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Kubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Xubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Linux Mint 17 and other latest PPA based Linux Distros.

Step Wise Installation of HandBrake 0.10 (Video Transcoder) using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based distros

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for HandBrake 0.10 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for HandBrake 0.10 in the software repository on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable HandBrake 0.10 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

After installation, search for "HandBrake" application either in Unity Dash or in Application menu. Now with the help of HandBrake convert your audio and video files from one format to another format on your system.

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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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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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FFmpeg development team officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.4.2 codename "Fresnel" with new changes and minor bug fixes. As you know that FFmpeg is one of the famous multimedia framework which allows you to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream and filter video files.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.4.2 comes with lot of changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2014-09-14, libav 11 as of 2014-10-05. This is the latest and most advanced version under FFmpeg 2.4.x series. This release primarily includes updated packages which include libavutil, libavcodec, libavformat, libavdevice, libavfilter, libavresample, libswresample and libpostproc. You can also download the source tarball of FFmpeg 2.4.2 "Fresnel" for your Linux machines.

The development team also state that they have integrated FFmpeg 2.4.2 "Fresnel" as part of Debian unstable branch again but it is not clear whether the packages will be integrated in to Debian testing in time for Jessie release. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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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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FFmpeg team officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.3.1 with minor new changes and fixes. This is another maintenance release under the 2.3.x series and contains fixed issues which were reported in previous releases. As you know that FFmpeg is one of the famous multimedia frameworks which allows you to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, steam and filter any media files.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.3.1 includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master and libav. The official statement state that "2.3.1 was released on 2014-07-31. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 2.3 release branch, which was cut from master on 2014-07-16. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2014-07-15, libav 10.2 as of 2014-07-15". You can also download the source tarball of FFmpeg 2.3.1 for your Linux Distros.

The major objective of this release is to provide some of updated packages. The packages which are updated in this release includes libavutil, libavformat, libavcodec, libavdevice, libavfilter, libswscale, libswresample and libpostproc. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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