FFmpeg 3.2.1 is now available for all supported platforms

Nov 27, 2016 23:40 GMT  ·  By

It's been almost a month since the major FFmpeg 3.2 "Hypatia" open-source, free and cross-platform multimedia framework was officially unveiled, and now the first point release arrives for all supported platforms.

FFmpeg 3.2 "Hypatia" brought us many goodies, including OpenH264 decoder wrapper, libopenmpt demuxer, alias muxer for Ogg Video (.ogv), VP8 support for Ogg muxing, the True Audio (TTA) muxer, as well as the crystalizer, maskedclamp, hysteresis, lut2, yuvtestsrc, vaguedenoiser, weave, avgblur, gblur, and acrusher audio filters.

Among other exciting things implemented in FFMpeg 3.2, we can mention MediaCodec VP8, VP9, HEVC and MPEG-4 decoding, an encoder for Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) and TrueHD, FFplay and SDL2 output device support, 16-bit support to the selectivecolor and curves filters, and extended MOV edit list support.

Here's what's new in FFmpeg 3.2.1

Included in this first point release of the stable FFmpeg 3.2 "Hypatia" series are the libavutil 55.34.100, libavcodec 57.64.101, libavformat 57.56.100, libavdevice 57.1.100, libavfilter 6.65.100, libavresample 3.1.0, libswscale 4.2.100, libswresample 2.3.100, and libpostproc 54.1.100 updated libraries, according to the release notes.

As expected, FFmpeg 3.2.1 also addresses various issues reported by users since FFmpeg 3.2, such as the ability to validate codec parameters in ffmdec, decrease of MIN_EXP variable in softfloat to cover full float range, support for validating block alignment in rmdec, as well as NULL pointer bugs in sbgdec and mxfdec.

For more technical details, you can always check out the full Git changelog. In the meantime, it is recommended that you update or install FFmpeg 3.2.1 on your operating system to enjoy better multimedia entertainment. Of course, you can also download the latest FFmpeg 3.2.1 archive if you fancy compiling software from sources.

The FFmpeg 3.2 "Hypatia" series will get a few more point releases before it reaches end of life, but we're looking forward to the next major branch, which should add an internal ebur128 library, remove the libebur128 external dependency, move the CrystalHD decoder to a new decode API, and support the Pro-MPEG CoP #3-R2 FEC protocol.