Interesting Patches
This page tries to collect some useful patches for FFmpeg that didn't make into the repository for some reason or another.
flicvideo encoder by Steven Johnson and Alex Beregszaszi
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/44516 http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-February/025968.html
native Zlib decoder by Mans Rullgard
https://github.com/michaelni/FFmpeg/tree/inflate
WMV3 encoder by Denis Fortin
http://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-June/031326.html
Apple RPZA encoder by Todd Kirby
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/87327/focus=87771
PES packetizer by Xiaohui Sun
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/52773/focus=56011
Part of the work of Summer Of Code TS Muxer
vf_imlib2: a libavfilter filter by Víctor Paesa
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-soc/2007-December/002161.html
"mem" file protocol by Lagrange Multiplier
The "mem" protocol simply uses RAM as a source for input multimedia data, akin to how the "file" and "pipe" protocols use filesystem files and pipes as sources.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/49711
Presets/profiles for usual targets by Panagiotis Issaris
Allow to keep in a text file groups of command options, and apply them at once by specifying the target name.
Handy for iPod, PSP, or any other picky multimedia player that otherwise requires lengthy command lines.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/37244
H264 encoder by Jori Liesenborgs & Panagiotis Issaris
http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~h264/
Chinese AVS video encoder by Stefan Gehrer
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/54415/focus=124500
Lossless msmpeg4v3 to mpeg4 transcoder
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/17074
Fixed point cook decoder
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/46024
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/53003/focus=46913
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/54008
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/54553
GDI screen grabbing for Win32
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/43589
There are two implementations in the thread above.
MPEG-4 ALS encoder by Justin Ruggles
https://github.com/justinruggles/FFmpeg-alsenc
Chromium security patches
Security/stability patches from Google's web browser http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/ffmpeg/
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-October/062725.html