14 DAY TRIAL // The first days of October already brought many exciting new technologies for GNU/Linux users, and today we would like to tell you about the recent release of the FFmpeg 3.1.4 "Laplace" open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.
On June 26, 2016, the FFMpeg development team officially announced the release of FFmpeg 3.1, which was a major milestone introducing a multitude of new features to the widely-used multimedia backend used by numerous games and applications across Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
FFmpeg 3.1 is dubbed Laplace, and it is currently the most advanced stable FFmpeg release, and FFmpeg 3.1.4 is here to update several of the core components and libraries that are used by the multimedia framework for encoding and decoding various audio and video streams, as well as fix many of the bugs reported by users since the previous point release, FFmpeg 3.1.3, announced on the last days of August 2016.
"Approximately every 3 months the FFmpeg project makes a new major release. Between major releases point releases will appear that add important bug fixes but no new features," reads the project's website. "Users that wish to compile from source themselves are strongly encouraged to consider using the development branch."
Here's what's new in FFmpeg 3.1.4
If you're wondering what's new in the FFmpeg 3.1.4 maintenance release, we can tell you that it contains the libavutil 55.28.100, libavcodec 57.48.101, libavformat 57.41.100, libavdevice 57.0.101, libavfilter 6.47.100, libavresample 3.0.0, libswscale 4.1.100, libswresample 2.1.100, libpostproc 54.0.100 updated libraries. As usual, you'll need to study the internal changelog for those extra technical details.
In the meantime, you can download the FFmpeg 3.1.4 sources via our website if you plan on compiling them for your Linux-based operating system. If not, you can wait for the maintainers of your distribution to push the new version to the stable repositories. FFmpeg 3.1.4 is a recommended update for anyone running a FFmpeg version from the Laplace series.