The latest version of FFmpeg can be downloaded from Softpedia

Aug 12, 2014 18:15 GMT  ·  By

FFmpeg, a complete solution to record, convert, and stream audio and video, is now at version 2.3.2 and is ready for download.

FFmpeg 2.3.2 “Mandelbrot” is the latest major release of the software, and this current build is only a maintenance version. Only a handful of packages have been updated in this release, but it’s worth the update.

“2.3.2 was released on 2014-08-11. 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,” reads the official announcement.

A number of packages have been updated in this release, including libavutil, libavcodec, libavformat, libavdevice, libavfilter, libavresample, libswscale, libswresample, and libpostproc.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play pretty much any media that humans and machines have created.

The latest branch of FFmpeg, 2.3, comes with a lot of new features, such as assembly optimizations for HEVC, native Opus decoder, QTKit and AVFoundation, various API additions, and numerous other features.

A complete list of updates, features, and other fixes can be found in the official announcement. You can download FFmpeg 2.3.2 source package right now from Softpedia.