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
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