Category: MPlayer & MEncoder

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Changes since SB56:

• Added FAAC to the UMS build
• Synchronised with r37191, which:
  • Improves H.265 support
• Updated FFmpeg to a0d7f9e, which:
  • Improves support for many containers and codecs and fixes bugs
• Updated x264 to d6b4e63 (r2409), which:
  • Improves speed
  • Fixes bugs

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Changes since SB55:

• Synchronised with r37018, which:
  • Improves DVD support
  • Adds Blu-ray playlist -identify printout
  • Fixes encoding finishing too soon
  • Improves stability
• Updated FFmpeg to aa86ccc, which:
  • Improves support for the following video codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Improves support for the following audio codecs: DTS
  • Improves support for the following containers: Matroska, MOV, OGG
  • Adds x265 encoding support
  • Improves audio sync
  • MPEG-4 adheres more strictly to spec limits

For more details and the download link, please see the main post.

Changes since SB54:

• Synchronised with r36788, which:
  • Fixes a fontconfig bug
• Updated FFmpeg to acd7505, which:
  • Improves support for the following video codecs: VP9, H.265, VC-1, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VP8
  • Improves support for the following audio codecs: AC-3
  • Improves support for the following containers: Matroska, AVI, MPEG-TS
  • Fixes memory leaks
  • Added support for encoding 7.1 channels with FDK-AAC
  • Improves detection of 60FPS
• Updated x264 to r2389, which:
  • Uses less memory
• Updated fontconfig to 2.10.95, which:
  • Uses version 4 of the cache
  • Fixes bugs (memory leaks, crashes, etc.)

For more details and the download link, please see the main post.

Changes since SB53:

• Synchronised with r36571, which:
  • Adds Google VP9 support
  • Improves support for some DVDs
  • Improves AAC support
  • Speed improvements
  • Fixes memory leaks
• Updated FFmpeg to r59647 (13f3092), which:
  • Improves AV sync
  • Improves AC-3 support
  • Improves DTS support
  • Improves VP9 support
  • Improves H.264 support
  • Improves H.265 support
  • Improves AviSynth support
  • Improves Matroska support
  • Fixes dts/pts bugs when outputting MPEG-TS
  • Adds support for reading and setting stereoscopic metadata for MPEG-2, H.264 and H.265 streams
• Updated Opus to 1.1, which:
  • Significantly improves encoding quality
  • Speed improvements of up to 40%

This is the first of these builds to be released on SourceForge, since our old host, Google Code, will soon no longer host downloads.

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Changes since SB52:

• Synchronised with r36500, which:
  • Improves blu-ray support
  • Improves VC-1 support
  • Fixes memory leaks
  • Adds rtsp support
  • Fixes multithreaded decoding
  • Improves ASS/SSA subtitle support
  • Adds support for HEVC (H.265)
  • Adds 4k support
  • Increased speed
  • Fixes a crash when trying to play a DVD from different region than currently set in the DVD drive.
  • Improves support for some DVDs
• Updated FFmpeg to r57910 (04047b6), which:
  • Fixed memory leaks
  • Optimized AC-3 decoding
  • Improves support for 60FPS videos
  • Improved AVI support
  • Silences meaningless errors
  • Improved DTS support
  • Supports seeking to non-keyframes in Matroska files
  • Supports HEVC
  • Improves seeking accuracy
  • Much more
• Updated x264 to r2377 (1ca7bb9), which:
  • Improves quality in fade-heavy clips
  • Increases encoding speed in some cases by over 39%
  • Improves bitrate settings logic
  • Improves stability
• Updated mpg123 to 1.16.0, which:
  • Improves WAV output stability
  • Increases speed
  • Fixes errors in win32 output
• Updated libpng to 1.6.6
• Updated libogg to 1.3.1
• Updated libopus to 1.0.3, which:
  • Updates to the new surround API
  • Fixes bugs
• Updated zlib to 1.2.8, which:
  • Fixes bugs

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Changes since SB51:

• Synchronised with r36063, which
  • Fixes memory leaks
  • Improves sync with Real videos
  • Fixes a crash
• MEncoder has access to private codec options

I’m no longer releasing Linux builds (they always take hours of troubleshooting) so this is only for Windows.
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Changes since SB50:

• Synchronised with r36055, which
  • Improves audio sync
  • Supports filenames with uncommon characters
  • Improves DVD support
• Updated x264 to r2274 (c832fe9), which:
  • Improves speed significantly
  • Improves compression
• Updated mpg123 to 1.15.1
• Re-added lame
• Re-added libfaac
• Removed dlfcn, RTMPDump and xanim

This is the first release that includes a Linux version (as a separate download) so now I am releasing for Windows and Linux.
For more details and the download link, please see the main post.

Changes since SB49:

• Synchronised with r35910, which
  • Silences meaningless errors
• Added support for XAnim codecs
• Added support for dynamic loading (dlfcn-win32-r19)
• Added RTMPDump Streaming Media library (r481)
• Updated libpng to 1.5.14

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Changelog:

• Synchronised with r35801
• Updated FFmpeg to r49065 (64b7e7d), which
  • Improves Matroska (MKV) support
  • Improves threading
• Updated fontconfig to 2.10.91, which
  • Fixes memory leaks
  • Makes it threadsafe
• Updated jpeg to 9
• Added mpg123 1.14.4

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Changelog:

• Synchronised with r35715, which:
  • Fixed a resource leak
• Updated FFmpeg to r48584 (92e79e5), which
  • Improved MPEG-PS encoding
  • Made error codes more meaningful
• Fixed WMA encoding