14 DAY TRIAL // FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert, and stream audio and video and it was just upgraded to a new major version, 2.5. It comes with a lot of new features and it's pretty interesting.
FFmpeg 2.5 has been dubbed "Bohr" and comes just 2.5 months after the previous release. There are not as many changes as you might think, but there are more than enough to keep users interested.
“2.5 was released on 2014-12-04. It is the latest stable FFMpeg release from the 2.5 release branch, which was cut from master on 2014-12-04. 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,” reads the official announcement.
Some of the updated packages in the latest FFmpeg framework include libavutil, libavcodec, libavformat, libavdevice, libavfilter, libavresample, libswscale, libswresample, and libpostproc. The devs have also said that the STL subtitle decoder is now supported, the XCB-based screen-grabber is now working properly, a SUP/PGS subtitle demuxer is now available, a number of fixes have been implemented as well.
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. You can download FFmpeg 2.5 source package right now from Softpedia.