1 gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes. 2012-08-DD
2 Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems
3 Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Intel Corporation
4 Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora
6 Version 0.4.0 - DD.Aug.2012
7 * Drop FFmpeg-based decoders
9 Version 0.3.7 - 26.Jun.2012
10 * Fix vaapidecode to report unsupported codec profiles
11 * Fix MPEG-2 decoding of streams with extra slice() information
12 * Map MPEG-2 compatible High profile streams to Main profile
13 * Map MPEG-4 Simple Scalable profile streams to Advanced Simple (Feng Yuan)
14 * Fix various MPEG-4 decoding bugs (timestamps, reference frames) (Feng Yuan)
15 * Don't forcibly resize user provided X windows (Holger Kaelberer)
16 * Recalculate render rect only if caps are negotiated (Holger Kaelberer)
18 Version 0.3.6 - 02.Apr.2012
19 * Add support for decoding MPEG-2 interlaced streams
20 * Add support for interlaced streams with FFmpeg decoders (Holger Kaelberer)
21 * Add vaapipostproc element for video postprocessing (e.g. deinterlacing)
22 * Skip all H.264 Filler Data NALs
23 * Fix crashes in MPEG-4 decoder (Feng Yuan)
24 * Fix fallback from MPEG-2 Simple to Main profile
25 * Improve decoding of misformed MPEG-2 streams (+Feng Yuan)
26 * Avoid a hang in playbin2 for some MPEG-2 TS streams (Feng Yuan)
28 Version 0.3.5 - 02.Mar.2012
29 * Fix H.264 decoding when emulation prevention bytes are detected
30 * Skip all H.264 Access Unit (AU) NALs (Feng Yuan)
31 * Fix modification process of H.264 reference picture lists (Feng Yuan)
32 * Fix MPEG-2 stream size calculation (Sreerenj Balachandran)
33 * Fix MPEG-2 decoding on Intel Gen with multiple slices per MB line
34 * Fix crash when downloading/uploading VA images on PowerVR (Cedar Trail)
35 * Fix double buffer free issues with some VA drivers
36 * Fix crash when there is no free surface available for decoding
37 * Skip profiles which have no entrypoints (Halley Zhao)
38 * Fix minor memory leaks in plug-in elements
40 Version 0.3.4 - 01.Feb.2012
41 * Add H.264 decoder (based on codecparsers)
42 * Add workaround for qtdemux not exposing H.263 profiles (Halley Zhao)
43 * Alias H.263 Baseline profile to MPEG-4:2 Simple profile (Halley Zhao)
44 * Use optimized path to submit slice data buffers
45 * Fix possible memory leak in MPEG-2 decoder
46 * Fix vaapisink to cap window size to the maximum display size
47 * Fix MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1 decoders to refcount reference surfaces properly
49 Version 0.3.3 - 16.Jan.2012
50 * Add MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1 decoders (based on codecparsers)
51 * Add support for GstXOverlay::set_render_rectangle() in vaapisink
52 * Fix memory leak of GL texture (Nicolas Dufresne)
53 * Fix vaapisink to automatically fit video to window
54 * Fix vaapiupload to only set caps on newly created buffers (Nicolas Dufresne)
55 * Fix gst_vaapi_ensure_display() to honour DISPLAY environment variable
57 Version 0.3.2 - 06.Jan.2012
58 * Rename vaapiconvert element to vaapiupload
59 * Fix vaapiupload from NV12 buffers
60 * Fix possible leaks of VA surfaces in FFmpeg decoder
61 * Fix memory leak in vaapiupload initialization function
62 * Fix possible crash in vaapidecode deinitialization code
63 * Add vaapidownload element to convert from VA surfaces to YUV pixels
65 Version 0.3.1 - 16.Dec.2011
66 * Fix check for supported VA images
67 * Add support for partial VA image updates
68 * Add support for new subtitle/overlay infrastructure (Thibault Saunier)
69 * Add missing video context queries in vaapisink/vaapiconvert (Nicolas Dufresne)
71 Version 0.3.0 - 09.Dec.2011
72 * Group all plugins into the same bundle
73 * Use new XOverlay API (Sreerenj Balachandran)
74 * Use new GstVideoContext and GstSurfaceBuffer API (Nicolas Dufresne)
75 * Fix vaapidecode sink caps if decoder is in NULL state (Sreerenj Balachandran)
76 * Fix auto-plugging and downstream buffer allocation (Nicolas Dufresne)
77 * Fix crash in VA display init if no VA configs were found (Nicolas Dufresne)
79 Version 0.2.7 - 07.Dec.2011
80 * Relicense plugins and tests to LGPL v2.1 (SDS)
81 * Fix MPEG-2 decoding from TS & PS streams
82 * Fix build with newer versions of FFmpeg
83 * Fix vaapiconvert direct-rendering modes
84 * Fix use of invalid data at the end-of-stream
86 Version 0.2.6 - 14.Jun.2011
87 * Fix licensing terms (LGPL v2.1)
89 Version 0.2.5 - 20.Jul.2010
90 * Fix build with older VA-API 0.29-sds
91 * Fix decoding of some H.264 streams. e.g. Ice Age 2 trailer
92 * Fix VA/GLX support with texture-from-pixmap and GLX version < 1.3
94 Version 0.2.4 - 18.May.2010
95 * Fix video rendering rect within an embedder window (Totem)
96 * Disable GLX rendering when vaapisink uses a foreign X window
98 Version 0.2.3 - 16.May.2010
99 * Fix memory leak of encoded buffers
100 * Fix decoder caps to report codec aliases
101 * Fix VC-1 decoding through the playbin2 pipeline
103 Version 0.2.2 - 14.May.2010
104 * Fix packaging dependencies
105 * Fix a crash in the FFmpeg decoder on close
106 * Fix OpenGL texture internal format (Clutter)
107 * Fix foreign window size for embedding (Totem)
109 Version 0.2.1 - 12.May.2010
110 * Fix integration within the playbin2 pipeline
111 * Fix vaapidecode to expose the HW supported caps only
112 * Add GstXOverlay interface to vaapisink (Totem media player)
114 Version 0.2.0 - 05.May.2010
115 * Relicense gst-libs/ code to LGPL v2.1+
116 * Add FFmpeg/VAAPI decoder for the new `vaapidecode' element
118 Version 0.1.2 - 30.Mar.2010
119 * Add AYUV image format
120 * Add compatibility with the original VA-API 0.29
121 * Add OpenGL support through VA/GLX extensions or TFP+FBO fallback
123 Version 0.1.1 - 23.Mar.2010
124 * Document public API for libgstvaapi-*.so.*
125 * Optimize `vaapiconvert' pipeline (direct-rendering)
126 * Allow `vaapisink` to render videos in fullscreen mode
128 Version 0.1.0 - 16.Mar.2010