14 DAY TRIAL // FFmpeg is an almost perfect solution to record, convert, and stream audio and video. Recently, a new major branch has been released, 2.7, and now the first maintenance version is out and ready for download.
Now that the FFMpeg 2.7 branch has arrived, we'll start to see many more of these maintenance versions pop up. Surprisingly, the jump to 2.7 was not all that impressive and neither is the upgrade to FFmpeg 2.7.1. It will take a while until the latest version lands in repositories, but it's happening.
"2.7.1 was released on 2015-06-19. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 2.7.1 release branch, which was cut from master on 2015-06-09. Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2015-06-10, libav 11 as of 2015-06-11" reads the official website.
As usually, all the packages in the FFmpeg framework have been updated, including libavutil, libavcodec, libavformat, libavdevice, libavfilter, libavresample, libswscale, libswresample, and libpostproc.
FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play pretty much any media that humans and machines have created.
A complete list of updates, features, and other fixes can be found in the official announcement. The source package for FFmpeg can be downloaded from Softpedia, but this is just the source. You will need to compile it yourself, although it would be a better idea to wait until it hits the repositories.