ffmpeg 0.5 released

Says ffmpeg.org:

"This release includes a very extensive number of changes, but some of the highlights are:

• Significant work to support at least decoding of all widespread mainstream proprietary codecs, such as:
  • decoders and encoders
    • ALAC
    • Flash Screen Video
    • WMAv2 decoder fixed, WMAv1/v2 encoder
  • decoders
    • Atrac3
    • MLP/TrueHD
    • On2 VP3 improvements and VP5/VP6 support
    • RealAudio Cooker and fixes for 14.4 and 28.8
    • RealVideo RV30/40
    • WMV3/WMV9/VC-1 and IntraX8 frame support for WMV2/VC-1
• Broad coverage of widespread non-proprietary codecs, including:
  • decoders and encoders
    • DNxHD
    • DVCPRO50 (a.k.a. DV50)
    • Floating point PCM
    • GSM-MS
    • Theora (and encoding via libtheora)
    • Vorbis
  • decoders
    • AAC with ADTS support and >2x the speed of FAAD! (no HE AAC support yet)
    • AC-3 that is faster than liba52 in 5.1, up to 2x faster in stereo and also supports E-AC-3! Hence liba52 is now obsolete.
    • DCA
    • DVCPRO HD (a.k.a. DV100)
    • H.264 PAFF and CQM support, plus slice-based multithreaded decoding
    • Monkey's Audio
    • MPEG-2 video support for intra VLC and 4:2:2
    • Musepack
    • QCELP
    • Shorten
    • True Audio (TTA)
    • Wavpack including hybrid mode support
• Highlights among the newly supported container formats:
  • demuxers and muxers
    • GXF
    • MXF
  • demuxers
    • NullSoft Video (NSV)
  • muxers
    • iPhone/iPod compatibility for MP4/MOV
    • Matroska
    • NUT
    • Ogg (FLAC, Theora and Vorbis only)
    • ShockWave Flash (SWF)
• libavdevice
• ffserver is working again.
• a shiny, new, completely revamped, non-recursive build system
• cleaner, more consistent code
• an all new metadata API
• and so much more!"

Here are the release notes, the changelog and the source package. Building is straightforward ('configure', 'make', 'make install'), but you will miss a number of popular formats.

If you'd like more extensive format coverage, please refer to this popular tutorial which also supports (as listed by 'ffmpeg -formats'):

D      libdc1394       dc1394 v.1 A/V grab
DE     libnut          nut format
D      vqf             Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) TwinVQ
D      x11grab         X11grab
DEA    ac3             ATSC A/52A (AC-3)
D A    eac3            ATSC A/52B (AC-3, E-AC-3)
DEA    libamr_nb       libamr-nb Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) Narrow-Band
DEA    libamr_wb       libamr-wb Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) Wide-Band
EA    libfaac         libfaac AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
D A    libfaad         libfaad AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
DEA    libgsm          libgsm GSM
DEA    libgsm_ms       libgsm GSM Microsoft variant
EA    libmp3lame      libmp3lame MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
DEV    libschroedinger libschroedinger Dirac 2.2
EV    libtheora       libtheora Theora
EA    libvorbis       libvorbis Vorbis
EV    libx264         libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
EV    libxvid         libxvidcore MPEG-4 part 2