June 27th, 2016, FFmpeg 3.1 "Laplace"

FFmpeg 3.1 "Laplace", a new major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:

DXVA2-accelerated HEVC Main10 decoding

fieldhint filter

loop video filter and aloop audio filter

Bob Weaver deinterlacing filter

firequalizer filter

datascope filter

bench and abench filters

ciescope filter

protocol blacklisting API

MediaCodec H264 decoding

VC-2 HQ RTP payload format (draft v1) depacketizer and packetizer

VP9 RTP payload format (draft v2) packetizer

AudioToolbox audio decoders

AudioToolbox audio encoders

coreimage filter (GPU based image filtering on OSX)

libdcadec removed

bitstream filter for extracting DTS core

ADPCM IMA DAT4 decoder

musx demuxer

aix demuxer

remap filter

hash and framehash muxers

colorspace filter

hdcd filter

readvitc filter

VAAPI-accelerated format conversion and scaling

libnpp/CUDA-accelerated format conversion and scaling

Duck TrueMotion 2.0 Real Time decoder

Wideband Single-bit Data (WSD) demuxer

VAAPI-accelerated H.264/HEVC/MJPEG encoding

DTS Express (LBR) decoder

Generic OpenMAX IL encoder with support for Raspberry Pi

IFF ANIM demuxer & decoder

Direct Stream Transfer (DST) decoder

loudnorm filter

MTAF demuxer and decoder

MagicYUV decoder

OpenExr improvements (tile data and B44/B44A support)

BitJazz SheerVideo decoder

CUDA CUVID H264/HEVC decoder

10-bit depth support in native utvideo decoder

libutvideo wrapper removed

YUY2 Lossless Codec decoder

VideoToolbox H.264 encoder

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