March 24, 2014, FFmpeg 2.2

We have made a new major release (2.2) It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch from 1st March. A partial list of new stuff is below:

    - HNM version 4 demuxer and video decoder
    - Live HDS muxer
    - setsar/setdar filters now support variables in ratio expressions
    - elbg filter
    - string validation in ffprobe
    - support for decoding through VDPAU in ffmpeg (the -hwaccel option)
    - complete Voxware MetaSound decoder
    - remove mp3_header_compress bitstream filter
    - Windows resource files for shared libraries
    - aeval filter
    - stereoscopic 3d metadata handling
    - WebP encoding via libwebp
    - ATRAC3+ decoder
    - VP8 in Ogg demuxing
    - side & metadata support in NUT
    - framepack filter
    - XYZ12 rawvideo support in NUT
    - Exif metadata support in WebP decoder
    - OpenGL device
    - Use metadata_header_padding to control padding in ID3 tags (currently used in
    MP3, AIFF, and OMA files), FLAC header, and the AVI "junk" block.
    - Mirillis FIC video decoder
    - Support DNx444
    - libx265 encoder
    - dejudder filter
    - Autodetect VDA like all other hardware accelerations

We recommend users, distributors and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.