1 This is GStreamer gst-plugins-bad 1.17.0.1.
3 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release in the
4 stable 1.0 API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
6 As always, this release is again packed with new features, bug fixes and
9 The 1.16 release series adds new features on top of the 1.14 series and is
10 part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
13 Full release notes will one day be found at:
15 https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/
17 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
18 shortly after the release.
20 This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction
21 with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience.
23 - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins
25 - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional
26 media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio,
27 video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc.
29 - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred
32 - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose
33 problems for distributors
35 - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made
36 their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one
37 reason or another. Many of these are are production quality
38 elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit
39 tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing
42 - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is
43 where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders
44 for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc.
46 - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using
47 VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware.
49 - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for
50 embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax
51 implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi.
53 - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP
55 - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
59 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
60 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
62 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
63 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
67 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
69 ==== Support and Bugs ====
71 We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org
72 for bug reports and feature requests:
74 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
76 Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See
78 https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/
82 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
83 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
85 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
89 GStreamer source code repositories can be found on GitLab on freedesktop.org:
91 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
93 and can also be cloned from there and this is also where you can submit
94 Merge Requests or file issues for bugs or feature requests.
96 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
97 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list:
99 https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel