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Summary of important user-visible changes for video 2.1.1:
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 ** Add support for FFMPEG 5.x. (See #61978)

 ** Drop support for old ffmpeg versions.
    Lavu56.22.100, SwS5.3.100, Lavc58.35.100, Lavf58.20.100
    is the lowest tested combination.

 ** Removed tests for outdated GNU/Linux distributions
    like Debian stretch, CentOS 7 and so on.
    See tests/docker_results.log for a list of tested distributions.

Summary of important user-visible changes for video 2.0.2:
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 ** Fix build on GNU Octave 8.x (bug #61551)

Summary of important user-visible changes for video 2.0.1:
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 ** Fix build on MacOS Monterrey (bug #57938)

Summary of important user-visible changes for video 2.0.0:
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 ** complete rewrite of the package, all sourcecode from
    previous versions was dropped and OpenCV's CvCapture_FFMPEG
    and CvVideoWriter_FFMPEG was used as base to implement
    the new VideoReader and VideoWriter classes.

Summary of important user-visible changes for video 1.2.4:
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 ** Bugfix #51057

Summary of important user-visible changes for video 1.2.3:
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 ** none (bugfix release #48846)

Summary of important user-visible changes for video 1.2.2:
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 ** none (bugfix release for Windows)

Summary of important user-visible changes for video 1.2.1:
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 ** Builds with GNU Octave 4.0.0

 ** Fix to read/write metadata title and comment

 ** Package is no longer automatically loaded.

Package: video