A fresh maintenance release has been made available

Jan 11, 2015 16:58 GMT  ·  By

FFmpeg, a complete solution to record, convert, and stream audio and video, has been upgraded to version 2.5.3 and is now available for download.

Just like all the versions made available in the 2.5.x branch, this is also a maintenance release. As usual, it's mostly about updated packages, but there are also a number of fixes. This is the most advanced version, so it will take a while until it makes its way to the official repositories.

"2.5.3 was released on 2015-01-10. It is the latest stable FFMpeg release from the 2.5 release branch, which was cut from master on 2014-12-15. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2014-12-03, libav 11 as of 2014-12-03," is noted on the official website.

The following packages have been upgraded: 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.

A complete list of updates, features, and other fixes can be found in the official announcement. The source package for FFmpeg can be downloaded from Softpedia, but this is just the source. You will need to compile it yourself, although it would be a better idea to wait until it hits the repositories.