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Software News : FFmpeg 0.6 released for AmigaOS

Posted by MickJT on 2010/7/8 14:20:00 (2028 reads) News by the same author

June 15th saw the completion and release of FFmpeg 0.6. Now it comes to the AmigaOS platform.

Since the last SVN build of FFmpeg for OS4, it now supports Deluxe Paint animations, CD Graphics, Apple Core Audio, Chinese AVS video, Adobe Filmstrip, Dolby TrueHD, Sony Wave64, Psygnosis YOP, VP8 video, WMA 9 Professional, Blu-Ray audio, DivX subtitles, the WebM file format, support for RTMP streams and much more.

It comes in both a Generic PPC and Altivec version (supplied as a .gpatch file).

It should, with some luck, work on OS4.0.

Also included is FFplay, a video player similar to MPlayer, supporting all the formats and codecs of FFmpeg, but will likely require OS4.1 Update 1 or better for the SDL library it is built with, and a fast CPU.

x264 encoding is broken and has bad quality, but has been included anyway. It may work properly on machines with Altivec support. This is yet to be tested.

ffmpeg 0.6 and libx264 revision 100 have incompatible default settings. Due to this, .ffpreset files can be used and are included. libx264 encoding was not available in the previous OS4 port. No functionality has been lost.

You can download it from OS4Depot.

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ktadd	Published: 2010/7/8 16:58 Updated: 2010/7/8 16:58
Quite a regular Joined: 12/06/2006 From: California, Unitied States Comments: 648	Re: FFmpeg 0.6 released for OS4 Thanks for this new release. Note that the current version of ffmpGUI on OS4Depot does not work with this version of ffmpeg. I have an updated version that works with ffmpeg 0.6 that I will release soon. A couple notes about ffmpeg 0.6 that I noticed from my testing. The new codecs, with the exception of subtitles, are decode only so you can read them but not save them. The one codec that is not supported for encoding in ffmpeg 0.6 that is supported by the older version is arm_wb (Adaptive Multi-Rate NarrowBand). As a result I've modified the arm_wb audio codec setting to encode in arm_nb when using ffmpeg 0.6. This souldn't be a big problem but if you want to encode in arm_wb, you should continue to use the older version of ffmpeg. (MickJT, please let us know if this has changed since the last verion you sent me.) When released ffmpegGUI will continue to support the older version SVN-r16701 as well as version 0.6. Thanks again for this new release.

MickJT	Published: 2010/7/8 17:05 Updated: 2010/7/8 17:12
Quite a regular Joined: 04/28/2009 From: Adelaide, Australia Comments: 982	Re: FFmpeg 0.6 released for OS4 You mean wide-band, not narrow-band. No change in that department since the versions you've tested. From www.ffmpeg.org "Support for AMR-WB encoding has been removed since libopencore-amr does not support it"

ChrisH	Published: 2010/7/8 21:08 Updated: 2010/7/8 21:22
Home away from home Joined: 05/19/2007 From: England Comments: 3582	Re: FFmpeg 0.6 released for OS4 FFplay sounds very interesting & I will try ASAP. Hope the "fast CPU" doesn't indicate it's slow/unoptimised. EDIT: Oh dear, it is slow, at least compared to MPlayer. And it doesn't seem any more compatible with MP4s or MKVs than MPlayer

MickJT	Published: 2010/7/9 8:07 Updated: 2010/7/9 8:07
Quite a regular Joined: 04/28/2009 From: Adelaide, Australia Comments: 982	Re: FFmpeg 0.6 released for OS4 FFplay doesn't use OpenGL. MPlayer is much better.

spotUP	Published: 2010/7/9 17:21 Updated: 2010/7/9 17:21
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Comments: 1485	Re: FFmpeg 0.6 released for OS4 with libffmpeg, we have all deps needed to port: digiband (rhytm game) http://www.happypenguin.org/show?DigiBand deadbeef musicplayer: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ flv2mpeg4 http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/flv2mpeg4/ sox, audio converter http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/

MickJT	Published: 2010/7/9 17:57 Updated: 2010/7/10 11:40
Quite a regular Joined: 04/28/2009 From: Adelaide, Australia Comments: 982	Re: FFmpeg 0.6 released for OS4 You know the funny thing about ffmpeg, is i've compared the output in config.mak (and other generated files when configuring) when enabling shared libraries, compared to just static ones. There's no difference at all except -fPIC, and -DPIC in some places. Except ffmpeg/ffplay do not work when using shared libraries. It's libavutil, it crashes on av_get_bits_per_pixel and I have no bloody idea why! So, anything that needs to use libffmpeg (well, libavutil) is gonna have to be statically linked, which is a real bummer. I guess it's possible to compile the other libraries without specifying libavutil as a dependency, and then statically link libavutil. I will look into it. It'll be even more interesting if that actually works. Edit: Didn't work. Also, I think ffplay will work on OS4.0 seeing as it doesn't use MiniGL. It's the combination of the latest SDL and a MiniGL under 2.2 that don't work together.