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
GStreamer 1.6.1 Release Notes
The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first bugfix release in the stable 1.6 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.6.0. For a full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla.
See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the latest version of this document.
Last updated: Friday 30 October 2015, 14:00 UTC (log)
Major bugfixes
Crashes in the gst-libav encoders were fixed
More DASH-IF test streams are working now
Live DASH, HLS and MS SmoothStreaming streams work more reliable and other fixes for the adaptive streaming protocols
Reverse playback works with scaletempo to keep the audio pitch
Correct stream-time is reported for negative applied_rate
SRTP packet validation during decoding does not reject valid packets anymore
Fixes for audioaggregator and aggregator to start producing output at the right time, and e.g. not outputting lots of silence in the beginning
gst-libav's internal ffmpeg snapshot was updated to 2.8.1
cerbero has support for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
Various memory leaks were fixed, including major leaks in playbin, playsink and decodebin
Various GObject-Introspection annotation fixes for bindings
and many, many more
GStreamer 1.6 Release Notes
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!
This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new features, bug fixes and other improvements.
See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the latest version of this document.
Highlights
Stereoscopic 3D and multiview video support
Trick mode API for key-frame only fast-forward/fast-reverse playback etc.
Improved DTS (decoding timestamp) vs. PTS (presentation timestamp) handling to account for negative DTS
New GstVideoConverter API for more optimised and more correct conversion of raw video frames between all supported formats, with rescaling
v4l2src now supports renegotiation
v4l2transform can now do scaling
V4L2 Element now report Colorimetry properly
Easier chunked recording of MP4, Matroska, Ogg, MPEG-TS: new splitmuxsink and multifilesink improvements
Content Protection signalling API and Common Encryption (CENC) support for DASH/MP4
Many adaptive streaming (DASH, HLS and MSS) improvements
New PTP and NTP network client clocks and better remote clock tracking stability
High-quality text subtitle overlay at display resolutions with glimagesink or gtkglsink
RECORD support for the GStreamer RTSP Server
Retransmissions (RTX) support in RTSP server and client
RTSP seeking support in client and server has been fixed
RTCP scheduling improvements and reduced size RTCP support
MP4/MOV muxer acquired a new "robust" mode of operation which attempts to keep the output file in a valid state at all times
Live mixing support in aggregator, audiomixer and compositor was improved a lot
compositor now also supports rescaling of inputs streams on the fly
New audiointerleave element with proper input synchronisation and live input support
Blackmagic Design DeckLink capture and playback card support was rewritten from scratch; 2k/4k support; mode sensing
KLV metadata support in RTP and MPEG-TS
H.265 video encoder (x265), decoders (libav, libde265) and RTP payloader and depayloaders
New DTLS plugin and SRTP/DTLS support
OpenGL3 support, multiple contexts and context propagation, 3D video, transfer/conversion separation, subtitle blending
New OpenGL-based QML video sink, Gtk GL video sink, CoreAnimation CAOpenGLLayerSink video sink
gst-libav switched to ffmpeg as libav-provider, gains support for 3D/multiview video, trick modes, and the CAVS codec
GstHarness API for unit tests
gst-editing-services got a completely new ges-launch-1.0 interface, improved mixing support and integration into gst-validate
gnonlin has been deprecated in favor of nle (Non Linear Engine) in gst-editing-services
gst-validate has a new plugin system, an extensive default testsuite, support for concurrent test runs and valgrind support
cerbero build tool for SDK binary packages gains new 'bundle-source' command
Various improvements to the Android, iOS, OS X and Windows platform support
Full log at
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of
media-handling components, ranging from simple mp3 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.
This package provides the pango plugin for GStreamer, a text renderer.
