FFmpeg Release Plan

Ideas and suggestions concerning FFmpeg software releases.

Things that need doing

• Fix SVQ3 regression test?
• Approximately 95% test coverage in FATE.
• AAC Conformance sweep
• Make sure API/ABI changelog is up-to-date

Release 0.6 "Works with HTML5"

Pending features that would be nice to have in 0.6

• LATM demuxing support
• Theora speedup work

Release Criteria

• make test passes.
• FATE test coverage passes for all platforms of interest.
• All 'important' bugs reported in roundup fixed/closed.

Except 46, 127 and possibly 192 and 452 --Ce 05:36, 3 February 2010 (EST)

• No half-implemented functionality that may break existing user apps.
• Endurance/memleak testing on film-length files.

Rationale for releases

• Provide endorsed snapshots for external software developers to develop against
• Avoid situation where external software developers using SVN head when head has transient limitations.
• Discourage external software developers using ancient snapshots that we don't support.

Release Process

• Create a branch in Subversion.
• Add VERSION file that hardcodes 0.6.
• Create release tarballs (repeat the process for gzip compression)
  • svn export svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/tags/0.6/ ffmpeg-0.6
  • tar -cjf ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 ffmpeg-0.6
  • md5sum ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 > ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2.md5
  • sha1sum ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 > ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2.sha
  • signatures from the release managers (concatenate all signatures into one file)
    • gpg --armor --detach-sign ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2
• Upload to ffmpeg.org
• Update website
• Who needs to be notified?
  • Major dependent projects, major distribution package maintainers --Rathann 09:43, 29 January 2009 (EST)

Release Notes/Press release English version

• To start with just the changelog. To be transformed into something nice.
• Group things in old and new technology and related areas.
• Remove uninteresting changelog items, ie deprecation stuff.
• Amount of added/changed/removed code lines since last release.
• Amount of people involved
• Time since last release
• Arm optimizations

  7 - PB-frame decoding for H.263
  8 - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
  9 - deprecated old scaler removed
 10 - VQF demuxer
 11 - Alpha channel scaler
 12 - PCX encoder
 13 - RTP packetization of H.263
 14 - RTP packetization of AMR
 15 - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
 16 - CorePNG decoding support
 17 - Cook multichannel decoding support
 18 - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
 19 - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
 20 - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
 21 - V210 decoder and encoder
 22 - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
 23 - QCP demuxer
 24 - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
 25 - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
 26 - DPX image decoder
 27 - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
 28 - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
 29 - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
 30 - experimental AAC encoder
 31 - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
 32 - RTMP support in libavformat
 33 - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
 34 - Wave64 demuxer
 35 - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
 36 - TwinVQ decoder
 37 - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
 38 - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
 39 - WMA Pro decoder
 40 - Core Audio Format demuxer
 41 - Atrac1 decoder
 42 - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
 43 - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
 44 - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
 45 - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
 46 - IV8 demuxer
 47 - CDG demuxer and decoder
 48 - R210 decoder
 49 - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
 50 - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
 51 - SIPR decoder
 52 - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
 53 - RTP depacketization of H.263
 54 - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
 55 - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
 56 - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
 57 - concat protocol
 58 - Indeo 5 decoder
 59 - RTP depacketization of AMR
 60 - WMA Voice decoder
 61 - ffprobe tool
 62 - AMR-NB decoder
 63 - RTSP muxer
 64 - HE-AAC v1 decoder
 65 - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
 66 - VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
 67 - RTP depacketization of Theora
 68 - HTTP Digest authentication
 69 - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
 70 - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
 71 - spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
 72 - unsharp video filter