1.16.1
The first 1.16 bug-fix release (1.16.1) was released on 23 September 2019.
This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to update from 1.16.0.
Highlighted bugfixes in 1.16.1
GStreamer-vaapi: fix green frames and decoding artefacts in some cases
OpenGL: fix wayland event source burning CPU in certain circumstances
Memory leak fixes and memory footprint improvements
Performance improvements
Stability and security fixes
Fix enum for GST_MESSAGE_DEVICE_CHANGED which is technically an API break, but this is only used internally in GStreamer and duplicated another message enum
hls: Make crypto dependency optional when hls-crypto is auto
player: fix switching back and forth between forward and reverse playback
decklinkaudiosink: Drop late buffers
openh264enc: Fix compilation with openh264 v2.0
wasapisrc: fix segtotal value being always 2
android: Fix gnutls issue causing a FORTIFY crash on Android Q
windows: Fix two crashes due to cross-CRT free when using MSVC
gstreamer core
device: gst_device_create_element() is transfer floating, not transfer full
filesink, fdsink: respect IOV_MAX for the writev iovec array (Solaris)
miniobject: free qdata array when the last qdata is removed (reduces memory footprint)
bin: Fix minor race when adding to a bin
aggregator: Actually handle NEED_DATA return from update_src_caps()
aggregator: Ensure that the source pad is created as a GstAggregatorPad if no type is given in the pad template
latency: fix custom event leaks
registry: Use plugin directory from the build system for relocateable Windows builds
message: fix up enum value for GST_MESSAGE_DEVICE_CHANGED
info: Fix deadlock in gst_ring_buffer_logger_log()
downloadbuffer: Check for flush after seek
identity: Non-live upstream have no max latency
identity: Fix the ts-offset property getter
aggregator: Make parsing of explicit sink pad names more robust
bufferpool: Fix the buffer size reset code
fakesink, fakesrc, identity: sync gst_buffer_get_flags_string() with new flags
multiqueue: never unref queries we do not own
concat: Reset last_stop on FLUSH_STOP too
aggregator: fix flow-return boolean return type mismatch
gstpad: Handle probes that reset the data field
gst: Add support for g_autoptr(GstPromise)
gst-inspect: fix unused-const-variable error in windows
base: Include gstbitwriter.h in the single-include header
Add various Since: 1.16 markers
GST_MESSAGE_DEVICE_CHANGED duplicates GST_MESSAGE_REDIRECT
Targetting wrong meson version
meson: Make get_flex_version.py script executable
meson: Link to objects instead of static helper library
meson: set correct install path for gdb helper
meson: fix warning about configure_file() install kwarg
gst-plugins-base
video-info: parse field-order for all interleaved formats
tests: fix up valgrind suppressions for glibc getaddrinfo leaks
meson: Reenable NEON support (in audio resampler)
audio-resampler: Update NEON to handle remainders not multiples of 4
eglimage: Fix memory leak
audiodecoder: Set output caps with negotiated caps to avoid critical info printed
video-frame: Take TFF flag from the video info if it was set in there
glcolorconvert: Fix external-oes shader
video-anc: Fix ADF detection when trying to extract data from vanc
gl/wayland: fix wayland event source burning CPU
configure: add used attribute in order to make NEON detection working with -flto.
audioaggregator: Return a valid rate range from caps query if downstream supports a whole range
rtspconnection: data-offset increase not set
rtpsconnection: Fix number of n_vectors
video-color: Add compile-time assert for ColorimetryInfo enum
audiodecoder: Fix leak on failed audio gaps
glupload: Keep track of cached EGLImage texture format
playsink: Set ts-offset to text sink.
meson.build: use join_paths() on prefix
compositor: copy frames as-is when possible
compositor: Skip background when a pad obscures it completely
rtspconnection: Start CSeq at 1 (some servers don't cope well with seqnum 0)
viv-fb: fix build break for GST_GL_API
gl/tests: fix shader creation tests part 2
gl/tests: fix shader creation tests
wayland: set the event queue also for the xdg_wm_base object
video: Added GI annotation for gstvideoaffinetransformationmeta apply_matrix
compositor: Remove unneeded left shift for ARGB/AYUV SOURCE operator
Colorimetry fixes
alsasrc: Don't use driver timestamp if it's zero
gloverlaycompositor: fix crash if buffer doesn't have video meta
meson: Don't try to find gio-unix on Windows
glshader: fix default external-oes shaders
subparse: fix pushing WebVTT cue with no newline at the end
meson: Missing "android" choice in gl_winsys
video test: Keep BE test inline with LE test
id3tag: Correctly validate the year from v1 tags before passing to GstDateTime
gl/wayland: Don't prefix wl_shell struct field
eglimage: Add compatibility define for DRM_FORMAT_NV24
Add various Since: 1.16 markers
video-anc: Handle SD formats correctly
Docs: add GL_CFLAGS to GTK_DOC_CFLAGS
GL: using vaapi and showing on glimagesink on wayland loads one core for 100% on 1.16
GL: external-oes shader places precision qualifier before #extension (was: androidmedia amcviddec fail after 1.15.90 1.16.0 update)
gst-plugins-good
alpha: Fix one_over_kc calculation on arm/aarch64
souphttpsrc: Fix incompatible type build warning
rtpjitterbuffer: limit max-dropout-time to maxint32
rtpjitterbuffer: Clear clock master before unreffing
qtdemux: Use empty-array safe way to cleanup GPtrArray
v4l2: Fix type compatibility issue with glibc 2.30
valgrind: suppress Cond error coming from gnutls and Ignore leaks caused by shout/sethostent
rtpfunnel: forward correct segment when switching pad
gtkglsink: fix crash when widget is resized after element destruction
jpegdec: Don't dereference NULL input state if we have no caps in TIME segments
rtp: opuspay: fix memory leak in gst_rtp_opus_pay_setcaps
v4l2videodec: return right type for drain.
rtpssrcdemux: Avoid taking streamlock out-of-band
Support v4l2src buffer orphaning
splitmuxsink: Only set running time on finalizing sink element when in async-finalize mode
rtpsession: Always keep at least one NACK on early RTCP
rtspsrc: do not try to send EOS with invalid seqnum
rtpsession: Call on-new-ssrc earlier
rtprawdepay: Don't get rid of the buffer pool on FLUSH_STOP
rtpbin: Free storage when freeing session
scaletempo: Advertise interleaved layout in caps templates
Support v4l2src buffer orphaning
gst-plugins-bad
hls: Make crypto dependency optional when hls-crypto is auto
player: fix switching back and forth between forward and reverse playback
decklinkaudiosink: Drop late buffers
srt: Add stats property, include sender-side statistics and fix a crash
dshowsrcwrapper: fix regression on device selection
tsdemux: Limit the maximum PES payload size
wayland: Define libdrm_dep in meson.build to fix meson configure error when kms is disabled
sctp: Fix crash on free() when using the MSVC binaries
webrtc: Fix signals documentation
h264parse: don't critical on VUI parameters > 2^31
rtmp: Fix crash inside free() with MSVC on Windows
iqa: fix leak of map_meta.data
d3dvideosink: Fix crash on WinProc handler
amc: Fix crash when a sync_meta survives its sink
pitch: Fix race between putSamples() and setting soundtouch parameters
webrtc: fix type of max-retransmits, make it work
mxfdemux: Also allow picture essence element type 0x05 for VC-3
wasapi: fix symbol redefinition build error
decklinkvideosrc: Retrieve mode of the ancillary data from the frame
decklinkaudiosrc/decklinkvideosrc: Do nothing in BaseSrc::negotiate() and...
adaptivedemux: do not retry downloads during shutdown.
webrtcbin: fix GInetAddress leak
dtls: fix dtls connection object leak
siren: fix a global buffer overflow spotted by asan
kmssink: Fix implicit declaration build error
Fix -Werror=return-type error in configure.
aiff: Fix infinite loop in header parsing.
nvdec: Fix possible frame drop on EOS
srtserversrc: yields malformed rtp payloads
srtsink: Fix crash in case no URI
dtlsagent: Fix leaked dtlscertificate
meson: bluez: Early terminate configure on Windows
decklink: Correctly ensure >=16 byte alignment for the buffers we allocate
webrtcbin: fix DTLS when receivebin is set to DROP
zbar: Include running-time, stream-time and duration in the messages
uvch264src: Make sure we set our segment
avwait: Allow start and end timecode to be set back to NULL
avwait: Don't print warnings for every buffer passed
hls/meson: fix dependency logic
Waylandsink gnome shell workaround
avwait: Allow setting start timecode after end timecode; protect propeties with mutex
wayland/wlbuffer: just return if used_by_compositor is true when attach
proxy: Set SOURCE flag on the source and SINK flag on the sink
ivfparse: Check the data size against IVF_FRAME_HEADER_SIZE
webrtc: Add various Since markers to new types after 1.14.0
msdk: fix the typo in debug category
dtlsagent: Do not overwrite openssl locking callbacks
meson: Fix typo in gsm header file name
srt: handle races in state change
webrtc: Add g_autoptr() support for public types
openh264enc: Fix compilation with openh264 v2.0
meson: Allow CUDA_PATH fallback on linux
meson: fix build with opencv=enabled and opencv4. Fixes#964
meson: Add support for the colormanagement plugin
autotools: gstsctp: set LDFLAGS
nvenc/nvdec: Add NVIDIA SDK headers to noinst_HEADERS
h264parse: Fix typo when setting multiview mode and flags
Add various Since: 1.16 markers
opencv: allow compilation against 4.1.x
Backport of some minor srt commits without MR into 1.16
meson: fix build with opencv=enabled and opencv4
wasapisrc: fix segtotal value being always 2 due to an unused variable
meson: colormanagement missing
androidmedia amcviddec fail after 1.15.90 1.16.0 update
gst-plugins-ugly
meson: Always require the gmodule dependency
gst-libav
docs: don't include the type hierarchy, fixing build with gtk-doc 1.30
avvidenc: Correctly signal interlaced input to ffmpeg when the input caps are interlaced
autotools: add bcrypt to win32 libs
gstav: Use libavcodec util function for version check
API documentation fails to build with gtk-doc 1.30
gst-rtsp-server
rtsp-client: RTP Info must exist in PLAY response
onvif-media: fix "void function returning a value" compiler warning
Add various Since: 1.16 markers
gstreamer-vaapi
fix egl context leak and display creation race
pluginutil: Remove Mesa from drivers white list
Classify vaapidecodebin as a hardware decoder
Fix two leak
vaapivideomemory: demote error message to info
encoder: vp8,vp9: reset frame_counter when input frame's format changes
encoder: mpeg2: No packed header for SPS and PPS
decoder: vp9: clear parser pointer after release
encoder: Fixes deadlock in change state function
encoder: h265: reset num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1 when low delay B.
encoder: not call ensure_num_slices inside g_assert()
encoder: continue if roi meta is NULL
decoder: vp9: Set chroma_ ype by VP9 bit_depth
vaapipostproc: don't do any color conversion when GL_TEXTURE_UPLOAD
libs: surface: fix double free when dmabuf export fails
h264 colors and artifacts upon upgrade to GStreamer Core Library version 1.15.90
gst-editing-services
element: Properly handle the fact that pasting can return NULL
Add various missing Since markers
launch: Fix caps restriction short names
python: Avoid warning about using deprecated methods
video-transition: When using non crossfade effect use 'over' operations
meson: Generate a pkgconfig file for the GES plugin
gst-devtools
launcher: testsuites: skip systemclock stress tests
validate: fix build on macOS
gst-build
Update win flex bison binaries
Update the flexmeson windows binary version
Don't allow people to run meson inside the uninstalled env
Contributors to 1.16.1
Aaron Boxer, Adam Duskett, Alicia Boya García, Andoni Morales Alastruey, Antonio Ospite, Arun Raghavan, Askar Safin, A. Wilcox, Charlie Turner, Christoph Reiter, Damian Hobson-Garcia, Daniel Klamt, Danny Smith, David Gunzinger, David Ing, David Svensson Fors, Doug Nazar, Edward Hervey, Eike Hein, Fabrice Bellet, Fernando Herrrera, Georg Lippitsch, Göran Jönsson, Guillaume Desmottes, Haihao Xiang, Haihua Hu, Håvard Graff, Hou Qi, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Ilya Smelykh, Jan Schmidt, Javier Celaya, Jim Mason, Jonas Larsson, Jordan Petridis, Jose Antonio Santos Cadenas, Juan Navarro, Knut Andre Tidemann, Kristofer Björkström, Lucas Stach, Marco Felsch, Marcos Kintschner, Mark Nauwelaerts, Martin Liska, Martin Theriault, Mathieu Duponchelle, Matthew Waters, Michael Olbrich, Mike Gorse, Nicola Murino, Nicolas Dufresne, Niels De Graef, Niklas Hambüchen, Nirbheek Chauhan, Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Ross Burton, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Song Bing, Thiago Santos, Thibault Saunier, Thomas Coldrick, Tim-Philipp Müller, Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Vivia Nikolaidou, Xavier Claessens, Yeongjin Jeong,
... and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent suggestions or helped testing. Thank you all!
List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.16.1
List of Merge Requests applied in 1.16
List of Issues fixed in 1.16.1
Known Issues
possibly breaking/incompatible changes to properties of wrapped FFmpeg decoders and encoders (see above).
The way that GIO modules are named has changed due to upstream GLib natively adding support for loading static GIO modules. This means that any GStreamer application using gnutls for SSL/TLS on the Android or iOS platforms (or any other setup using static libraries) will fail to link looking for the g_io_module_gnutls_load_static() function. The new function name is now g_io_gnutls_load(gpointer data). See Android/iOS sections above for further details.
Highlights
new msdk plugin for Intel's Media SDK for hardware-accelerated
video encoding and decoding on Intel graphics hardware on Windows
or Linux.
x264enc can now use multiple x264 library versions compiled for
different bit depths at runtime, to transparently provide support
for multiple bit depths.
videoscale and videoconvert now support multi-threaded scaling
and conversion, which is particularly useful with higher
resolution video.
h264parse will now automatically insert AU delimiters if needed
when outputting byte-stream format, which improves standard
compliance and is needed in particular for HLS playback on
iOS/macOS.
rtpbin has acquired bundle support for incoming streams
Major new features and changes Noteworthy new API
The video library gained support for a number of new video
formats:
GBR_12LE, GBR_12BE, GBRA_12LE, GBRA_12BE (planar 4:4:4
RGB/RGBA, 12 bits per channel) GBRA_10LE, GBRA_10BE (planar
4:4:4:4 RGBA, 10 bits per channel) GBRA (planar 4:4:4:4
ARGB, 8 bits per channel) I420_12BE, I420_12LE (planar 4:2:0
YUV, 12 bits per channel) I422_12BE,I422_12LE (planar 4:2:2
YUV, 12 bits per channel) Y444_12BE, Y444_12LE (planar 4:4:4
YUV, 12 bits per channel) VYUY (another packed 4:2:2 YUV
format)
The high-level GstPlayer API was extended with functions for
taking video snapshots and enabling accurate seeking. It can
optionally also use the still-experimental playbin3 element
now.
New Elements
msdk: new plugin for Intel's Media SDK for hardware-accelerated
video encoding and decoding on Intel graphics hardware on Windows
or Linux. This includes an H.264 encoder/decoder (msdkh264dec,
msdkh264enc), an H.265 encoder/decoder (msdkh265dec, msdkh265enc),
an MJPEG encoder/encoder (msdkmjpegdec, msdkmjpegenc), an MPEG-2
video encoder (msdkmpeg2enc) and a VP8 encoder (msdkvp8enc).
iqa is a new Image Quality Assessment plugin based on DSSIM,
similar to the old (unported) videomeasure element.
The faceoverlay element, which allows you to overlay SVG graphics
over a detected face in a video stream, has been ported from
0.10.
our ffmpeg wrapper plugin now exposes/maps the ffmpeg Opus audio
decoder (avdec_opus) as well as the GoPro CineForm HD / CFHD
decoder (avdec_cfhd), and also a parser/writer for the IVF
format (avdemux_ivf and avmux_ivf).
audiobuffersplit is a new element that splits raw audio buffers
into equal-sized buffers
audiomixmatrix is a new element that mixes N:M audio channels
according to a configured mix matrix.
The timecodewait element got renamed to avwait and can operate
in different modes now.
The opencv video processing plugin has gained a new dewarp
element that dewarps fisheye images.
ttml is a new plugin for parsing and rendering subtitles in
Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) format. For the time being
these elements will not be autoplugged during media playback
however, unless the GST_TTML_AUTOPLUG=1 environment variable
is set. Only the EBU-TT-D profile is supported at this point.
New element features and additions
x264enc can now use multiple x264 library versions compiled for
different bit depths at runtime, to transparently provide support
for multiple bit depths. A new configure parameter
--with-x264-libraries has been added to specify additional paths
to look for additional x264 libraries to load. Background is
that the libx264 library is always compile for one specific bit
depth and the x264enc element would simply support the depth
supported by the underlying library. Now we can support multiple
depths.
x264enc also picks up the interlacing mode automatically from
the input caps now and passed interlacing/TFF information
correctly to the library.
videoscale and videoconvert now support multi-threaded scaling
and conversion, which is particularly useful with higher
resolution video. This has to be enabled explicitly via the
"n-threads" property.
videorate's new "rate" property lets you set a speed factor on
the output stream
splitmuxsink's buffer collection and scheduling was rewritten
to make processing and splitting deterministic; before it was
possible for a buffer to end up in a different file chunk in
different runs. splitmuxsink also gained a new "format-location-full"
signal that works just like the existing "format-location"
signal only that it is also passed the primary stream's first
buffer as argument, so that it is possible to construct the
file name based on metadata such as the buffer timestamp or any
GstMeta attached to the buffer. The new "max-size-timecode"
property allows for timecode-based splitting. splitmuxsink will
now also automatically start a new file if the input caps change
in an incompatible way.
fakesink has a new "drop-out-of-segment" property to not drop
out-of-segment buffers, which is useful for debugging purposes.
identity gained a "ts-offset" property.
both fakesink and identity now also print what kind of metas
are attached to buffers when printing buffer details via the
"last-message" property used by gst-launch-1.0 -v.
multiqueue: made "min-interleave-time" a configurable property.
video nerds will be thrilled to know that videotestsrc's snow
is now deterministic. videotestsrc also gained some new properties
to make the ball pattern based on system time, and invert colours
each second ("animation-mode", "motion", and "flip" properties).
oggdemux reverse playback should work again now. You're welcome.
playbin3 and urisourcebin now have buffering enabled by default,
and buffering message aggregation was fixed.
tcpclientsrc now has a "timeout" property
appsink has gained support for buffer lists. For backwards
compatibility reasons users need to enable this explicitly with
gst_app_sink_set_buffer_list_support(), however. Once activated,
a pulled GstSample can contain either a buffer list or a single
buffer.
splitmuxsrc reverse playback was fixed and handling of sparse
streams, such as subtitle tracks or metadata tracks, was improved.
matroskamux has acquired support for muxing G722 audio; it also
marks all buffers as keyframes now when streaming only audio,
so that tcpserversink will behave properly with audio-only
streams.
qtmux gained support for ProRes 4444 XQ, HEVC/H.265 and CineForm
(GoPro) formats, and generally writes more video stream-related
metadata into the track headers. It is also allows configuration
of the maximum interleave size in bytes and time now. For
fragmented mp4 we always write the tfdt atom now as required
by the DASH spec.
qtdemux supports FLAC, xvid, mp2, S16L and CineForm (GoPro)
tracks now, and generally tries harder to extract more video-related
information from track headers, such as colorimetry or interlacing
details. It also received a couple of fixes for the scenario
where upstream operates in TIME format and feeds chunks to
qtdemux (e.g. DASH or MSE).
audioecho has two new properties to apply a delay only to certain
channels to create a surround effect, rather than an echo on
all channels. This is useful when upmixing from stereo, for
example. The "surround-delay" property enables this, and the
"surround-mask" property controls which channels are considered
surround sound channels in this case.
webrtcdsp gained various new properties for gain control and
also exposes voice activity detection now, in which case it
will post "voice-activity" messages on the bus whenever the
voice detection status changes.
The decklink capture elements for Blackmagic Decklink cards
have seen a number of improvements:
decklinkvideosrc will post a warning message on "no signal"
and an info message when the signal lock has been (re)acquired.
There is also a new read-only "signal" property that can
be used to query the signal lock status. The GAP flag will
be set on buffers that are captured without a signal lock.
The new drop-no-signal-frames will make decklinkvideosrc
drop all buffers that have been captured without an input
signal. The "skip-first-time" property will make the source
drop the first few buffers, which is handy since some devices
will at first output buffers with the wrong resolution
before they manage to figure out the right input format and
decide on the actual output caps.
decklinkaudiosrc supports more than just 2 audio channels
now.
The capture sources no longer use the "hardware" timestamps
which turn out to be useless and instead just use the
pipeline clock directly.
srtpdec now also has a readonly "stats" property, just like
srtpenc.
rtpbin gained RTP bundle support, as used by e.g. WebRTC. The
first rtpsession will have a rtpssrcdemux element inside splitting
the streams based on their SSRC and potentially dispatch to a
different rtpsession. Because retransmission SSRCs need to be
merged with the corresponding media stream the ::on-bundled-ssrc
signal is emitted on rtpbin so that the application can find
out to which session the SSRC belongs.
rtprtxqueue gained two new properties exposing retransmission
statistics ("requests" and "fulfilled-requests")
kmssink will now use the preferred mode for the monitor and
render to the base plane if nothing else has set a mode yet.
This can also be done forcibly in any case via the new
"force-modesetting" property. Furthermore, kmssink now allows
only the supported connector resolutions as input caps in order
to avoid scaling or positioning of the input stream, as kmssink
can't know whether scaling or positioning would be more appropriate
for the use case at hand.
waylandsink can now take DMAbuf buffers as input in the presence
of a compatible Wayland compositor. This enables zero-copy
transfer from a decoder or source that outputs DMAbuf. It will
also set surface opacity hint to allow better rendering
optimization in the compositor.
udpsrc can be bound to more than one interface when joining a
multicast group, this is done by giving a comma separate list
of interfaces such as multicast-iface="eth0,eth1".
Plugin moves
dataurisrc moved from gst-plugins-bad to core
The rawparse plugin containing the rawaudioparse and rawvideoparse
elements moved from gst-plugins-bad to gst-plugins-base. These
elements supersede the old videoparse and audioparse elements.
They work the same, with just some minor API changes. The old
legacy elements still exist in gst-plugins-bad, but may be
removed at some point in the future.
timecodestamper is an element that attaches time codes to video
buffers in form of GstVideoTimeCodeMetas. It had a "clock-source"
property which has now been removed because it was fairly useless
in practice. It gained some new properties however: the
"first-timecode" property can be used to set the inital timecode;
alternatively "first-timecode-to-now" can be set, and then the
current system time at the time the first buffer arrives is
used as base time for the time codes.
Plugin removals
The mad mp1/mp2/mp3 decoder plugin was removed from gst-plugins-ugly,
as libmad is GPL licensed, has been unmaintained for a very
long time, and there are better alternatives available. Use the
mpg123audiodec element from the mpg123 plugin in gst-plugins-ugly
instead, or avdec_mp3 from the gst-libav module which wraps the
ffmpeg library. We expect that we will be able to move mp3
decoding to gst-plugins-good in the next cycle seeing that most
patents around mp3 have expired recently or are about to expire.
The mimic plugin was removed from gst-plugins-bad. It contained
a decoder and encoder for a video codec used by MSN messenger
many many years ago (in a galaxy far far away). The underlying
library is unmaintained and no one really needs to use this
codec any more. Recorded videos can still be played back with
the MIMIC decoder in gst-libav.
Miscellaneous API additions
Request pad name templates passed to gst_element_request_pad()
may now contain multiple specifiers, such as e.g. src_%u_%u.
gst_buffer_iterate_meta_filtered() is a variant of
gst_buffer_iterate_meta() that only returns metas of the requested
type and skips all other metas.
gst_pad_task_get_state() gets the current state of a task in a
thread-safe way.
gst_uri_get_media_fragment_table() provides the media fragments
of an URI as a table of key=value pairs.
gst_print(), gst_println(), gst_printerr(), and gst_printerrln()
can be used to print to stdout or stderr. These functions are
similar to g_print() and g_printerr() but they also support all
the additional format specifiers provided by the GStreamer
logging system, such as e.g. GST_PTR_FORMAT.
a GstParamSpecArray has been added, for elements who want to
have array type properties, such as the audiomixmatrix element
for example. There are also two new functions to set and get
properties of this type from bindings:
gst_util_set_object_array() gst_util_get_object_array()
various helper functions have been added to make it easier to
set or get GstStructure fields containing caps-style array or
list fields from language bindings (which usually support
GValueArray but don't know about the GStreamer specific fundamental
types):
gst_structure_get_array() gst_structure_set_array()
gst_structure_get_list() gst_structure_set_list()
a new 'dynamic type' registry factory type was added to register
dynamically loadable GType types. This is useful for automatically
loading enum/flags types that are used in caps, such as for
example the GstVideoMultiviewFlagsSet type used in multiview
video caps.
there is a new GstProxyControlBinding for use with GstController.
This allows proxying the control interface from one property
on one GstObject to another property (of the same type) in
another GstObject. So e.g. in parent-child relationship, one
may need to call gst_object_sync_values() on the child and have
a binding (set elsewhere) on the parent update the value. This
is used in glvideomixer and glsinkbin for example, where
sync_values() on the child pad or element will call sync_values()
on the exposed bin pad or element.
Note that this doesn't solve GObject property forwarding, that
must be taken care of by the implementation manually or using
GBinding.
gst_base_parse_drain() has been made public for subclasses to
use.
`gst_base_sink_set_drop_out_of_segment()' can be used by
subclasses to prevent GstBaseSink from dropping buffers that
fall outside of the segment.
gst_calculate_linear_regression() is a new utility function to
calculate a linear regression.
gst_debug_get_stack_trace is an easy way to retrieve a stack
trace, which can be useful in tracer plugins.
allocators: the dmabuf allocator is now sub-classable, and there
is a new GST_CAPS_FEATURE_MEMORY_DMABUF define.
video decoder subclasses can use the newly-added function
gst_video_decoder_allocate_output_frame_with_params() to pass
a GstBufferPoolAcquireParams to the buffer pool for each buffer
allocation.
the video time code API has gained a dedicated GstVideoTimeCodeInterval
type plus related API, including functions to add intervals to
timecodes.
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 and was moved to libgstallocators-1.0 from gst-plugins-base.
GstPlayer
New API has been added to:
get the number of audio/video/subtitle streams:
gst_player_media_info_get_number_of_streams()
gst_player_media_info_get_number_of_video_streams()
gst_player_media_info_get_number_of_audio_streams()
gst_player_media_info_get_number_of_subtitle_streams()
enable accurate seeking: gst_player_config_set_seek_accurate()
and gst_player_config_get_seek_accurate()
get a snapshot image of the video in RGBx, BGRx, JPEG, PNG or
native format: gst_player_get_video_snapshot()
selecting use of a specific video sink element
(gst_player_video_overlay_video_renderer_new_with_sink())
If the environment variable GST_PLAYER_USE_PLAYBIN3 is set,
GstPlayer will use the still-experimental playbin3 element and
the GstStreams API for playback.
Miscellaneous changes
video caps for interlaced video may contain an optional
"field-order" field now in the case of interlaced-mode=interleaved
to signal that the field order is always the same throughout
the stream. This is useful to signal to muxers such as mp4mux.
The new field is parsed from/to GstVideoInfo of course.
video decoder and video encoder base classes try harder to proxy
interlacing, colorimetry and chroma-site related fields in caps
properly.
The buffer stored in the PROTECTION events is now left unchanged.
This is a change of behaviour since 1.8, especially for the
mssdemux element which used to decode the base64 parsed data
wrapped in the protection events emitted by the demuxer.
PROTECTION events can now be injected into the pipeline from
the application; source elements deriving from GstBaseSrc will
forward those downstream now.
The DASH demuxer is now correctly parsing the MSPR-2.0
ContentProtection nodes and emits Protection events accordingly.
Applications relying on those events might need to decode the
base64 data stored in the event buffer before using it.
The registry can now also be disabled by setting the environment
variable GST_REGISTRY_DISABLE=yes, with similar effect as the
GST_DISABLE_REGISTRY compile time switch.
Seeking performance with gstreamer-vaapi based decoders was
improved. It would recreate the decoder and surfaces on every
seek which can be quite slow.
more robust handling of input caps changes in videoaggregator-based
elements such as compositor.
Lots of adaptive streaming-related fixes across the board (DASH,
MSS, HLS). Also:
mssdemux, the Microsoft Smooth Streaming demuxer, has seen
various fixes for live streams, duration reporting and
seeking.
The DASH manifest parser now extracts MS PlayReady
ContentProtection objects from manifests and sends them
downstream as PROTECTION events. It also supports multiple
Period elements in external xml now.
gst-libav was updated to ffmpeg 3.3 but should still work with
any 3.x version.
GstEncodingProfile has been generally enhanced so it can, for
example, be used to get possible profiles for a given file
extension. It is now possible to define profiles based on element
factory names or using a path to a .gep file containing a
serialized profile.
audioconvert can now do endianness conversion in-place. All
other conversions still require a copy, but e.g. sign conversion
and a few others could also be implemented in-place now.
The new, experimental playbin3 and urisourcebin elements got
many bugfixes and improvements and should generally be closer
to a full replacement of the old elements.
interleave now supports > 64 channels.
OpenCV elements, grabcut and retinex has been ported to use
GstOpencvVideoFilter base class, increasing code reuse and
fixing buffer map/unmap issues. Redundant copie of images has
been removed in edgedetect, cvlaplace and cvsobel. This comes
with various cleanup and Meson support.
OpenGL integration
As usual the GStreamer OpenGL integration library has seen
numerous fixes and performance improvements all over the place,
and is hopefully ready now to become API stable and be moved
to gst-plugins-base during the 1.14 release cycle.
The GStreamer OpenGL integration layer has also gained support
for the Vivante EGL FB windowing system, which improves performance
on platforms such as Freescale iMX.6 for those who are stuck
with the proprietary driver. The qmlglsink element also supports
this now if Qt is used with eglfs or wayland backend, and it
works in conjunction with gstreamer-imx of course.
various qmlglsrc improvements
Tracing framework and debugging improvements
New tracing hooks have been added to track GstMiniObject and
GstObject ref/unref operations.
The memory leaks tracer can optionally use this to retrieve
stack traces if enabled with e.g.
GST_TRACERS=leaks(filters="GstEvent,GstMessage",stack-traces-flags=full)
The GST_DEBUG_FILE environment variable, which can be used to
write the debug log output to a file instead of printing it to
stderr, can now contain a name pattern, which is useful for
automated testing and continuous integration systems. The
following format specifiers are supported:
%p: will be replaced with the PID %r: will be replaced with
a random number, which is useful for instance when running
two processes with the same PID but in different containers.
Tools
gst-inspect-1.0 can now list elements by type with the new
--types command-line option, e.g. gst-inspect-1.0 --types=Audio/Encoder
will show a list of audio encoders.
gst-launch-1.0 and gst_parse_launch() have gained a new operator
(:) that allows linking all pads between two elements. This is
useful in cases where the exact number of pads or type of pads
is not known beforehand, such as in the uridecodebin : encodebin
scenario, for example. In this case, multiple links will be
created if the encodebin has multiple profiles compatible with
the output of uridecodebin.
gst-device-monitor-1.0 now shows a gst-launch-1.0 snippet for
each device that shows how to make use of it in a gst-launch-1.0
pipeline string.
GStreamer RTSP server
The RTSP server now also supports Digest authentication in
addition to Basic authentication.
The GstRTSPClient class has gained a pre-*-request signal and
virtual method for each client request type, emitted in the
beginning of each rtsp request. These signals or virtual methods
let the application validate the requests, configure the
media/stream in a certain way and also generate error status
codes in case of an error or a bad request.
GStreamer VAAPI
GstVaapiDisplay now inherits from GstObject, thus the VA display
logging messages are better and tracing the context sharing is
more readable.
When uploading raw images into a VA surfaces now VADeriveImages
are tried fist, improving the upload performance, if it is
possible.
The decoders and the post-processor now can push dmabuf-based
buffers to downstream under certain conditions. For example:
GST_GL_PLATFORM=egl gst-play-1.0 video-sample.mkv
--videosink=glimagesink
Refactored the wrapping of VA surface into gstreamer memory,
adding lock when mapping and unmapping, and many other fixes.
Now vaapidecodebin loads vaapipostproc dynamically. It is
possible to avoid it usage with the environment variable
GST_VAAPI_DISABLE_VPP=1.
Regarding encoders: they have primary rank again, since they
can discover, in run-time, the color formats they can use for
upstream raw buffers and caps renegotiation is now possible.
Also the encoders push encoding info downstream via tags.
About specific encoders: added constant bit-rate encoding mode
for VP8 and H265 encoder handles P010_10LE color format.
Regarding decoders, flush operation has been improved, now the
internal VA encoder is not recreated at each flush. Also there
are several improvements in the handling of H264 and H265
streams.
VAAPI plugins try to create their on GstGL context (when
available) if they cannot find it in the pipeline, to figure
out what type of VA Display they should create.
Regarding vaapisink for X11, if the backend reports that it is
unable to render correctly the current color format, an internal
VA post-processor, is instantiated (if available) and converts
the color format.
GStreamer Editing Services and NLE
Enhanced auto transition behaviour
Fix some races in nlecomposition
Allow building with msvc
Added a UNIX manpage for ges-launch
API changes:
Added ges_deinit (allowing the leak tracer to work properly)
Added ges_layer_get_clips_in_interval Finally hide internal
symbols that should never have been exposed
GStreamer validate
Port gst-validate-launcher to python 3
gst-validate-launcher now checks if blacklisted bugs have been
fixed on bugzilla and errors out if it is the case
Allow building with msvc
Add ability for the launcher to run GStreamer unit tests
Added a way to activate the leaks tracer on our tests and fix
leaks
Make the http server multithreaded
New testsuite for running various test scenarios on the DASH-IF
test vectors
GStreamer Python Bindings
Overrides has been added for IntRange, Int64Range, DoubleRange,
FractionRange, Array and List. This finally enables Python
programmers to fully read and write GstCaps objects.
Build and Dependencies
Meson build files are now disted in tarballs, for jhbuild and
so distro packagers can start using it. Note that the Meson-based
build system is not 100% feature-equivalent with the autotools-based
one yet.
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.
Developers who install GStreamer from source and just do make
install after updating the source code, without doing make
uninstall first, will have to manually remove the old installed
plugin files from the installation prefix, or they will get
'Cannot register existing type' critical warnings.
Most of the docbook-based documentation (FAQ, Application
Development Manual, Plugin Writer's Guide, design documents)
has been converted to markdown and moved into a new gst-docs
module. The gtk-doc library API references and the plugins
documentation are still built as part of the source modules
though.
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).
gst-omx and gstreamer-vaapi modules can now also be built using
the Meson build system.
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.
Platform-specific improvements Android
androidmedia: add support for VP9 video decoding/encoding and
Opus audio decoding (where supported)
OS/X and iOS
avfvideosrc, which represents an iPhone camera or, on a Mac, a
screencapture session, so far allowed you to select an input
device by device index only. New API adds the ability to select
the position (front or back facing) and device-type (wide angle,
telephoto, etc.). Furthermore, you can now also specify the
orientation (portrait, landscape, etc.) of the videostream.
Bugs fixed in 1.12
More than 635 bugs have been fixed during the development of 1.12.
This list does not include issues that have been cherry-picked into
the stable 1.10 branch and fixed there as well, all fixes that ended
up in the 1.10 branch are also included in 1.12.
This list also does not include issues that have been fixed without
a bug report in bugzilla, so the actual number of fixes is much
higher. Stable 1.12 branch
After the 1.12.0 release there will be several 1.12.x bug-fix
releases which will contain bug fixes which have been deemed suitable
for a stable branch, but no new features or intrusive changes will
be added to a bug-fix release usually. The 1.12.x bug-fix releases
will be made from the git 1.12 branch, which is a stable branch.
1.12.0
1.12.0 was released on 4th May 2017.
1.12.1
The first 1.12 bug-fix release (1.12.1) was released on 20 June
2017. This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to
update from 1.12.x. Major bugfixes in 1.12.1
Various fixes for crashes, assertions, deadlocks and memory
leaks Fix for regression when seeking to the end of ASF files
Fix for regression in (raw)videoparse that caused it to omit
video metadata Fix for regression in discoverer that made it
show more streams than actually available Numerous bugfixes to
the adaptive demuxer base class and the DASH demuxer Various
playbin3/urisourcebin related bugfixes Vivante DirectVIV (imx6)
texture uploader works with single-plane (e.g. RGB) video formats
now Intel Media SDK encoder now outputs valid PTS and keyframe
flags OpenJPEG2000 plugin can be loaded again on MacOS and
correctly displays 8 bit RGB images now Fixes to DirectSound
source/sink for high CPU usage and wrong latency/buffer size
calculations gst-libav was updated to ffmpeg n3.3.2 ... and
many, many more!
1.12.2
The second 1.12 bug-fix release (1.12.2) was released on 14 July
2017. This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to
update from 1.12.x. Major bugfixes in 1.12.2
Various fixes for crashes, assertions, deadlocks and memory
leaks Regression fix for playback of live HLS streams Regression
fix for crash when playing back a tunneled RTSP stream Regression
fix for playback of RLE animations in MOV containers Regression
fix for RTP GSM payloading producing corrupted output Major
bugfixes to the MXF demuxer, mostly related to seeking and fixes
to the frame reordering handling in the MXF muxer and demuxer
Fix for playback of mono streams on MacOS More fixes for index
handling of ASF containers Various fixes to adaptivedemux, DASH
and HLS demuxers Fix deadlock in gstreamer-editing-services
during class initialization ... and many, many more!
1.8.3
The third 1.8 bug-fix release (1.8.3) was released on 19 August 2016. This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to update from 1.8.x.
Major bugfixes in 1.8.3
Fix Android build scripts on OS X and Windows
Fix stepping in PAUSED state in certain circumstances
Fix jackaudiosink hang when exiting
Fix udpsrc receiving multicast packets not only from the selected multicast group
Fix unnecessary decoding of unselected streams in GES
Fix (multi)udpsink randomly not sending to clients
Fix ALL_BOTH probes not considering EVENT_FLUSH
Fix average input rate calculations in queue2
Fix various locking issues causing deadlock in adaptivedemux
Fix gst-libav encoders to correctly produce codec_data in caps
Add Wayland, Windows and Rasberry Pi support to the QML GL video sink
Add support for building with OpenH264 1.6
Add support for controlling deinterlacing in GES video sources
... and many, many more!
For a full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. Note that this is not the full list of changes. For the full list of changes please refer to the GIT logs or ChangeLogs of the particular modules.
Known Issues
gst-rtsp-server does not take address pool configuration into account for sending unicast UDP. Bugzilla #766612
vp8enc crashes on 32 bit Windows, but was working fine in 1.6. 64 bit Windows is unaffected. Bugzilla #763663
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/
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 'good' plugins for GStreamer. It provides the
pulseaudio plugin for GStreamer, which allows playback and recording of
sound through the Pulseaudio sound daemon.
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