ffx264 & ffhevc for Linux/BSD

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.2.7 and ffx264 3.4.1

* Added support for FFmpeg's internal Opus audio encoder

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.2.8

* Added support for Dynamic HDR10+ JSON files. Requires libx265 to be compiled with Dynamic HDR10+ support

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.2.9

* Bugfix: use an if conditional to set hdr-opt option
* Increase default CRF value to 21
* Tune the default encoding parameters

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.0 and ffx264 3.4.2

* Simplify the scale variable a bit
* Support SMPTE170M colorspace conversion
* Support SMPTE170M for color primaries/matrices/transfers

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.1 and ffx264 3.4.3

* Match software scaler options in config file with the ones inside the script. $SCALER in config file now takes a value between 0 and 9
* Do some basic checking of scaler option when it's set in the config file

Additional for ffhevc

* Further optimizations to the default encoding options

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.2

* Remove redundant software scaler warning and exit in the sws_func() function for the config file
* Added support for the experimental software scaler
* Lower psy-rdoq from 2.5 to 1.5 and psy-rd from 2.5 to 2.0 to eliminate ringing artifacts
* No need to enclose the values of max-cll in quotes
* Removed additional encoder info on max audio channels support
* Added support for software scaler tuning where applicable
* Added example JSON file for Dynamic HDR10+ to the package
* Updated the Makefile

ChangeLog for ffx264 3.4.4

* Remove redundant software scaler warning and exit in the sws_func() function for the config file
* Added support for the experimental software scaler
* Added support for software scaler tuning where applicable
* Removed additional encoder info on max audio channels support

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.3 and ffx264 3.4.5

* Report software scaler set in the config file
* Merge the bicubic and spline scaler tuning code
* Mention for the Lanczos scaler that the scaler tuning value is the filter length and not sharpness

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.4 and ffx264 3.4.6

* New function, video_chars_func(), to detect and display video characteristics like color range/space/transfer/primaries
* Detect and display video resolution if video scaling is enabled
* Detect and display pixel format

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.5 and ffx264 3.4.7

* Replace numbers in array variable char of the video_chars_func() function with the ones from the for loop
* Pipe the ffprobe string to tail -1 to work around issues with some problematic files
* Some small improvements to the video_colorspace_func() function

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.6

* Bugfix: master-display option must be enclosed in quotes to not confuse Bash

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.7 and ffx264 3.4.8

* Bugfix in the video_colorspace_func() function. Wrong value used for the ispace option of the filter. Must be bt2020ncl instead of just bt2020

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.8 and ffx264 3.4.9

* Make software scaler tweaking optional
* Added support for the unsharp filter for sharpen/blur
* Use a colon symbol as separation for input/output color range in the video_colorspace_func() function as to be consistent with the other options. Also set the default to tv:tv

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.3.9 and ffx264 3.5.0

* Support setting the min/max keyframe/IDR intervals

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.4.0 and ffx264 3.5.1

* Bugfix: use realpath instead of readlink for the OUTPUT var when running in batch mode. Fixes the issue where readlink will follow the full path in case the input is a symlink which may result of encoding files we were not asked to
* Don't print cropped resolution during runtime if batch mode is selected
* Remove check for realpath. It is now required and not optional

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.4.1 and ffx264 3.5.2

* Support full chroma input for the software scaler

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.4.2 and ffx264 3.5.3

* Support setting the output video aspect ratio

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.4.3 and ffx264 3.5.4

* Support dialog level normalization for AC3/EAC3 audio

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.4.4

* Update transfer characteristics: smpte-st-2084 -> smpte2084. Requires latest x265

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.4.5

* Disable Open GOP and enable header repeating when HDR options are enabled like master display and max-cll

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.4.6 and ffx264 3.5.5

* Initial support for HDR to SDR conversions. Requires FFmpeg to be compiled with the zimg library as it needs the zscale filter https://github.com/sekrit-twc/zimg

Merry Christmas!