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
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