New hotness!
I’ve been beavering away in the background on support for an exciting new Plex feature (Coming Soon™), but in the meantime the chaps over at FFmpeg (www.ffmpeg.org) have released v0.5 of the library (which Plex uses to decode most of the media you all enjoy). FFmpeg releases are few and far between, but the guys at XBMC have already worked hard getting the new version up and running. Plex of course benefits by inheriting that hard work. We also benefit from all the work the FFmpeg team have put in optimising and improving the various codecs the library supports.
I’ve also added the new version of libfaad2 (the library we use for AAC decoding) and added support for LATM-AAC (a common muxing format for AAC when used in broadcast DTV). The more astute of you will note that we now support both PAFF H.264 video, and LATM-AAC audio, which are the formats NZ (and Norway) broadcast their digital HDTV in. I’ll let you ponder that while you enjoy the screenshots…
The new stuff should be in an upcoming Plex release, but those of you who want to live on the edge can grab a binary from http://bluemandrill.com/plex/Plex-new-ffmpeg.zip. Source is available at http://github.com/elan/plex/tree/ryan-new-ffmpeg. Enjoy!
Getting a 404 on the download link.
Link to .zip file is not working. Can’t wait to see if this fixes the issues with TrueHD skipping! Thanks for your work.
Sorry, the link is http://bluemandrill.com/plex/Plex-new-ffmpeg.zip
Link fixed! Thanks Elan.
Again, getting a 404 error with the link……..
[...] the new version of libfaad2 and some other patches which provide support for more formats. See his blog post for more details. The new ffmpeg adds support for WMAv2 and lots [...]
Should be in the new release.
links broken… i know it’s not finished but was hoping there was at least a beta i could try.
The code that link is now in Plex v0.8.