GStreamer 1.8.0 was released on 24 March 2016.
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 new features, bug fixes
and other improvements.
See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.8/ for the latest
version of this document.
Highlights
Hardware-accelerated zero-copy video decoding on Android
New video capture source for Android using the android.hardware.Camera
API
Windows Media reverse playback support (ASF/WMV/WMA)
New tracing system provides support for more sophisticated
debugging tools
New high-level GstPlayer playback convenience API
Initial support for the new Vulkan API, see Matthew Waters'
blog post for more details
Improved Opus audio codec support: Support for more than two
channels; MPEG-TS demuxer/muxer can now handle Opus; sample-accurate
encoding/decoding/transmuxing with Ogg, Matroska, ISOBMFF
(Quicktime/MP4), and MPEG-TS as container; new codec utility
functions for Opus header and caps handling in pbutils library.
The Opus encoder/decoder elements were also moved to gst-plugins-base
(from -bad), and the opus RTP depayloader/payloader to -good.
GStreamer VAAPI module now released and maintained as part of
the GStreamer project
Asset proxy support in the GStreamer Editing Services
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.
Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology
transparently. Developers can add new codecs and filters by writing a
simple plugin with a clean, generic interface.
GStreamer is released under the LGPL.
This package is part of the 'bad' plugins for GStreamer. It provides the
soundtouch plugin, which allows detecting BPM and changing pitch
of audio files.
