The second 1.16 bug-fix release (1.16.2) was released on 3 December 2019.
This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to update from 1.16.1.
Highlighted bugfixes in 1.16.2
Interlaced video scaling fixes
CineForm video support in AVI
audiorate: avoid glitches due to rounding errors after changing rate
Command line tool output printing improvements on Windows
various performance improvements, memory leak fixes and security fixes
VP9 decoding fixes
avfvideosrc: Explicitly request video permission on macOS 10.14+
wasapi: bug fixes and stability improvements
webrtc-audio-processing: fix segmentation fault on 32-bit windows
tsdemux: improved handling of certain discontinuities
vaapi h265 decoder: wait for I-frame before trying to decode
gstreamer
gst-launch: Fix ugly stdout on Windows
tee: Make sure to actually deactivate pads that are released
bin: Drop need-context messages without source instead of crashing
gst: Don't pass miniobjects to GST_DEBUG_OBJECT() and similar macros
tracers: Don't leak temporary GstStructure
gst-plugins-base
xvimagepool: Update size, stride, and offset with allocated XvImage
video-converter: Fix RGB-XYZ-RGB conversion
audiorate: Update next_offset on rate change
audioringbuffer: Reset reorder flag before check
audio-buffer: Don't fail to map buffers with zero samples
videorate: Fix max-duplication-time handling
gl/gbm: ensure we call the resize callback before attempting to draw
video-converter: Various fixes for interlaced scaling
gstrtspconnection: messages_bytes not decreased
check: Don't use real audio devices for tests
riff: add CineForm mapping
glfilters: Don't use static variables for storing per-element state
glupload: Add VideoMetas and GLSyncMeta to the raw uploaded buffers
streamsynchronizer: avoid pad release race during logging.
gst-play: Use gst_print* to avoid broken stdout string on Windows
gst-plugins-good
vp9dec: Fix broken 4:4:4 8bits decoding
rtpsession: add locking for clear-pt-map
rtpL16depay: don't crash if data is not modulo channels*width
wavparse: Fix push mode ignoring audio with a size smaller than segment buffer
wavparse: Fix push mode ignoring last audio payload chunk
aacparse: fix wrong offset of the channel number in adts header
jpegdec: Fix incorrect logic in EOI tag detection
videocrop: Also update the coordinate when in-place
jpegdec: don't overwrite the last valid line
vpx: Error out if enabled and no features found
v4l2videodec: ensure pool exists before orphaning it
v4l2videoenc: fix type conversion errors
v4l2bufferpool: Queue number of allocated buffers to capture
v4l2object: fix mpegversion number typo
v4l2object: Work around bad TRY_FMT colorimetry implementations
gst-plugins-bad
avfvideosrc: Explicitly request video permission on macOS 10.14+
wasapi: Various fixes and a workaround for a specific driver bug
wasapi: Move to CoInitializeEx for COM initialization
wasapi: Fix runtime/build warnings
waylandsink: Commit the parent after creating subsurface
msdkdec: fix surface leak in msdkdec_handle_frame
tsmux: Fix copying of buffer region
tsdemux: Handle continuity mismatch in more cases
tsdemux: Always issue a DTS even when it's equal to PTS
openexr: Fix build with OpenEXR 2.4 (and also OpenEXR 2.2 on Ubuntu 18.04)
ccextractor: Always forward all sticky events to the caption pad
pnmdec: Return early on ::finish() if we have no actual data to parse
ass: avoid infinite unref loop with bad data
fluidsynth: add sf3 to soundfont search path
webrtcdsp/webrtcechoprobe segmentation fault on windows (1.16.0 x86)
gst-libav
avvidenc: Fix error propagation
avdemux: Fix segmentation fault if long_name is NULL
avviddec: Fix huge leak caused by circular reference
avviddec: Enforce allocate new AVFrame per input frame
avdec_mpeg2video (and probably more): Huge memory leak in git master
gst-rtsp-server
rtsp-media: Use lock in gst_rtsp_media_is_receive_only
rtsp-client: RTP Info when completed_sender
rtsp-client: fix location uri-format by getting uri directly from context instead
gstreamer-vaapi
meson build: halt configuration if no renderer API
libs: decoder: h265: skip all pictures prior the first I-frame
libs: window: x11: Avoid usage of deprecated API
gst-editing-services
Initialize debug categories before usage
gst-build
gst-env: Use locally built GStreamer utility programs
GStreamer Python Bindings
- add binding for gst_pad_set_caps()
- pygobject dependency requirement was bumped to >= 3.8
- new audiotestsrc, audioplot, and mixer plugin examples, and a
dynamic pipeline example
GStreamer 1.16.0:
Introduction
The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in
the stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia
framework!
As always, this release is again packed with many new features, bug
fixes and other improvements.
Highlights
- GStreamer WebRTC stack gained support for data channels for
peer-to-peer communication based on SCTP, BUNDLE support, as well as
support for multiple TURN servers.
- AV1 video codec support for Matroska and QuickTime/MP4 containers
and more configuration options and supported input formats for the
AOMedia AV1 encoder
- Support for Closed Captions and other Ancillary Data in video
- Support for planar (non-interleaved) raw audio
- GstVideoAggregator, compositor and OpenGL mixer elements are now in
-base
- New alternate fields interlace mode where each buffer carries a
single field
- WebM and Matroska ContentEncryption support in the Matroska demuxer
- new WebKit WPE-based web browser source element
- Video4Linux: HEVC encoding and decoding, JPEG encoding, and improved
dmabuf import/export
- Hardware-accelerated Nvidia video decoder gained support for VP8/VP9
decoding, whilst the encoder gained support for H.265/HEVC encoding.
- Many improvements to the Intel Media SDK based hardware-accelerated
video decoder and encoder plugin (msdk): dmabuf import/export for
zero-copy integration with other components; VP9 decoding; 10-bit
HEVC encoding; video post-processing (vpp) support including
deinterlacing; and the video decoder now handles dynamic resolution
changes.
- The ASS/SSA subtitle overlay renderer can now handle multiple
subtitles that overlap in time and will show them on screen
simultaneously
- The Meson build is now feature-complete (*) and it is now the
recommended build system on all platforms. The Autotools build is
scheduled to be removed in the next cycle.
- The GStreamer Rust bindings and Rust plugins module are now
officially part of upstream GStreamer.
- The GStreamer Editing Services gained a gesdemux element that allows
directly playing back serialized edit list with playbin or
(uri)decodebin
- Many performance improvements
The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
The 1.14 release series adds new features on top of the previous 1.12 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
Highlights:
WebRTC support: real-time audio/video streaming to and from web browsers
Experimental support for the next-gen royalty-free AV1 video codec
Video4Linux: encoding support, stable element names and faster device probing
Support for the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) video streaming protocol
RTP Forward Error Correction (FEC) support (ULPFEC)
RTSP 2.0 support in rtspsrc and gst-rtsp-server
ONVIF audio backchannel support in gst-rtsp-server and rtspsrc
playbin3 gapless playback and pre-buffering support
tee, our stream splitter/duplication element, now does allocation query aggregation which is important for efficient data handling and zero-copy
QuickTime muxer has a new prefill recording mode that allows file import in Adobe Premiere and FinalCut Pro while the file is still being written.
rtpjitterbuffer fast-start mode and timestamp offset adjustment smoothing
souphttpsrc connection sharing, which allows for connection reuse, cookie sharing, etc.
nvdec: new plugin for hardware-accelerated video decoding using the NVIDIA NVDEC API
Adaptive DASH trick play support
ipcpipeline: new plugin that allows splitting a pipeline across multiple processes
Major gobject-introspection annotation improvements for large parts of the library API
GStreamer C# bindings have been revived and seen many updates and fixes
The externally-maintained GStreamer Rust bindings have many usability improvements and cover most of the API now
Bugs fixed in 1.12.5:
pad: fix some stream deactivation deadlocks/races
registrychunks: don't read from unaligned memory when loading registry
ptp: fix build failure with #undef USE_MEASUREMENT_FILTERING
downloadbuffer: Don't hold the mutex while posting the download-complete message
playbin3: Fix accessing invalid index in GstStream when received select-stream event
id3v2: re-fix handling of ID3 v2.4 tags with extended headers
audio: fix handling of U32BE format
videodecoder: Reset QoS time after pushing segment. This fixes playbin gapless playback with videos.
subparse: push out of last chunk of text if last line has no newline
aacparse: When parsing raw input, accept frames of any size. This fixes handling of encoded silence.
splitmuxsrc: Improve not-linked handling.
rtspsrc: also proxy multicast-iface property to RTCP udpsrc
flacdec: flush flac decoder on lost sync, so that it can re-sync.
matroskamux: Only mark new clusters as keyframe if they start on a keyframe or we're muxing only audio
matroskamux: Clip maximum cluster duration to the maximum possible value
h264parse: reset internal 'state' variable properly
x264enc: fix build with newer x264 with support for multiple bit depths
x265enc: Fix tagging of keyframes on output buffers
glimagesink: Correct PAR in output caps when transforming
vtdec: destroy and create the GL context on start()/stop(), fixing a refcount loop
player: fix criticals when reading info/track properties that are NULL
lv2: fix inverted boolean properties
rtponviftimestamp: fix state change function init/reset, fixing memory corruption or leaks on shutdown
libav: some build issues fixes
rtsp-server: Place netaddress meta on packets received via TCP. Fixes keep-alive via RTCP in TCP interleaved mode.
rtsp-server: gi annotation fixes
gst-libav: internal ffmpeg copy was updated to ffmpeg 3.3.6
Various fixes for memory leaks, deadlocks and crashes in all modules
... and many, many more!
GStreamer Python Bindings (highlights)
* Overrides has been added for IntRange, Int64Range, DoubleRange,
FractionRange, Array and List. This finally enables Python
programmers to fully read and write GstCaps objects.
* Some plugin filenames have been changed to match the plugin names:
for example the file name of the encoding plugin in
gst-plugins-base containing the encodebin element was
libgstencodebin.so and has been changed to libgstencoding.so. This
affects only a handful of plugins across modules.
* GStreamer core now optionally uses libunwind and libdw to generate
backtraces. This is useful for tracer plugins used during debugging
and development.
* There is a new libgstbadallocators-1.0 library in gst-plugins-bad
(which may go away again in future releases once the
GstPhysMemoryAllocator interface API has been validated by more
users).
* The qtkitvideosrc element for macOS was removed. The API is
deprecated since 10.9 and it wasn't shipped in the binaries since a
few releases.
GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of
media-handling components, ranging from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback to
complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
This package contains python bindings for the GStreamer library,
major version 1.
