1 This is GStreamer gst-libav 1.21.2.
3 GStreamer 1.21 is the unstable development branch leading up to the next major
4 stable version which will be 1.22.
6 The 1.21 development series adds new features on top of the 1.20 series and is
7 part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
10 Full release notes will one day be found at:
12 https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/
14 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
15 shortly after the release.
17 This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction
18 with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience.
20 - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins
22 - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional
23 media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio,
24 video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc.
26 - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred
29 - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose
30 problems for distributors
32 - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made
33 their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one
34 reason or another. Many of these are are production quality
35 elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit
36 tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing
39 - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is
40 where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders
41 for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc.
43 - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using
44 VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware.
46 - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for
47 embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax
48 implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi.
50 - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP
52 - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
56 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
57 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
59 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
60 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
64 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
66 ==== Support and Bugs ====
68 We track bugs and feature requests in GitLab:
70 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
72 Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See
74 https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/
78 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
79 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
81 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the OFTC IRC network, which is
82 also bridged into the Matrix network.
84 Please do not submit support requests in GitLab, we only use it
85 for bug tracking and merge requests review.
89 The GStreamer source code repository can be found on GitLab on freedesktop.org:
91 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/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