April 8th, 2021, FFmpeg 4.4 "Rao"

FFmpeg 4.4 "Rao", a new major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:

AudioToolbox output device

MacCaption demuxer

PGX decoder

chromanr video filter

VDPAU accelerated HEVC 10/12bit decoding

ADPCM IMA Ubisoft APM encoder

Rayman 2 APM muxer

AV1 encoding support SVT-AV1

Cineform HD encoder

ADPCM Argonaut Games encoder

Argonaut Games ASF muxer

AV1 Low overhead bitstream format demuxer

RPZA video encoder

ADPCM IMA MOFLEX decoder

MobiClip FastAudio decoder

MobiClip video decoder

MOFLEX demuxer

MODS demuxer

PhotoCD decoder

MCA demuxer

AV1 decoder (Hardware acceleration used only)

SVS demuxer

Argonaut Games BRP demuxer

DAT demuxer

aax demuxer

IPU decoder, parser and demuxer

Intel QSV-accelerated AV1 decoding

Argonaut Games Video decoder

libwavpack encoder removed

ACE demuxer

AVS3 demuxer

AVS3 video decoder via libuavs3d

Cintel RAW decoder

VDPAU accelerated VP9 10/12bit decoding

afreqshift and aphaseshift filters

High Voltage Software ADPCM encoder

LEGO Racers ALP (.tun & .pcm) muxer

AV1 VAAPI decoder

adenorm filter

ADPCM IMA AMV encoder

AMV muxer

NVDEC AV1 hwaccel

DXVA2/D3D11VA hardware accelerated AV1 decoding

speechnorm filter

SpeedHQ encoder

asupercut filter

asubcut filter

Microsoft Paint (MSP) version 2 decoder

Microsoft Paint (MSP) demuxer

AV1 monochrome encoding support via libaom >= 2.0.1

asuperpass and asuperstop filter

shufflepixels filter

tmidequalizer filter

estdif filter

epx filter

Dolby E parser

shear filter

kirsch filter

colortemperature filter

colorcontrast filter

PFM encoder

colorcorrect filter

binka demuxer

XBM parser

xbm_pipe demuxer

colorize filter

CRI parser

aexciter audio filter

exposure video filter

monochrome video filter

setts bitstream filter

vif video filter

OpenEXR image encoder

Simbiosis IMX decoder

Simbiosis IMX demuxer

Digital Pictures SGA demuxer and decoders

TTML subtitle encoder and muxer

identity video filter

msad video filter

gophers protocol

RIST protocol via librist

We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.