New version of FFmpeg - one more step on the way to HTML5 video

Just yesterday, a new version of a set of free libraries for working with many different media formats was released - FFmpeg for the modest version 0 point 6.

The developers have delayed a bit with the release (more than a year, the previous version dates back to March 2009), but this fact fades before the list of improvements to this version - they are just colossal.
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If in brief, the goal is the main goal - to improve support for HTML5 video, as indicated by the unobtrusive release name - “Works with HTML5”.

H.264 and Theora decoding has significantly accelerated (the same applies to all other popular codecs), this version also features support for the libvpx library (by Google), including the VP8 codec and the old-good Matryoshka demuxer in the new WebM container.

The complete list of changes is extremely large, so I will try to highlight the most important thing:

• Accelerated AAC decoding
• Multiple improvements and optimization for the ARM platform
• Important updates for Vorbis decoder
• Supports RTP packaging for H.263 and AMR, depacking for AMR, ASF, H.263, Theora and Vorbis
• RTMP / RTMPT / RTMPS / RTMPE / RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
• New tool - ffprobe
• VorbisComment in FLAC, Ogg FLAC, and Ogg Speex
• A huge number of changes related to codecs (for details - in release notes). Among the most important: the ability to decode Indeo 5, WMA Voice, Bluray Subtitle (PGS), WMA Pro, ALS (MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding); AAC encoding (experimentally!); DivX subtitle (XSUB); demuxer core audio.

References:

• Download link (tarballs and signatures). Expect binary builds from the maintainers of your distros.
• Release Notes
• Full list of changes