GStreamer 1.24.0 new major stable release
The GStreamer team is excited to announce a new major feature
release of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
As always, this release is again packed with new features, bug
fixes and many other improvements.
The 1.24 release series adds new features on top of the previous
1.22 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series
of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
Highlights:
New Discourse forum and Matrix chat space
New Analytics and Machine Learning abstractions and elements
Playbin3 and decodebin3 are now stable and the default in gst-play-1.0, GstPlay/GstPlayer
The va plugin is now preferred over gst-vaapi and has higher ranks
GstMeta serialization/deserialization and other GstMeta improvements
New GstMeta for SMPTE ST-291M HANC/VANC Ancillary Data
New unixfd plugin for efficient 1:N inter-process communication on Linux
cudaipc source and sink for zero-copy CUDA memory sharing between processes
New intersink and intersrc elements for 1:N pipeline decoupling within the same process
Qt5 + Qt6 QML integration improvements including qml6glsrc, qml6glmixer, qml6gloverlay, and qml6d3d11sink elements
DRM Modifier Support for dmabufs on Linux
OpenGL, Vulkan and CUDA integration enhancements
Vulkan H.264 and H.265 video decoders
RTP stack improvements including new RFC7273 modes and more correct header extension handling in depayloaders
WebRTC improvements such as support for ICE consent freshness, and a new webrtcsrc element to complement webrtcsink
WebRTC signallers and webrtcsink implementations for LiveKit and AWS Kinesis Video Streams
WHIP server source and client sink, and a WHEP source
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) clock support for Windows and other additions
Low-Latency HLS (LL-HLS) support and many other HLS and DASH enhancements
New W3C Media Source Extensions library
Countless closed caption handling improvements including new cea608mux and cea608tocea708 elements
Translation support for awstranscriber
Bayer 10/12/14/16-bit depth support
MPEG-TS support for asynchronous KLV demuxing and segment seeking, plus various new muxer features
Capture source and sink for AJA capture and playout cards
SVT-AV1 and VA-API AV1 encoders, stateless AV1 video decoder
New uvcsink element for exporting streams as UVC camera
DirectWrite text rendering plugin for windows
Direct3D12-based video decoding, conversion, composition, and rendering
AMD Advanced Media Framework AV1 + H.265 video encoders with 10-bit and HDR support
AVX/AVX2 support and NEON support on macOS on Apple ARM64 CPUs via new liborc
GStreamer C# bindings have been updated
Rust bindings improvements and many new and improved Rust plugins
Lots of new plugins, features, performance improvements and bug fixes
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