playbin: check the flags before set again

[platform/upstream/gst-plugins-base.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer Base Plugins 1.3.2
+This is GStreamer Base Plugins 1.4.0
 
 Changes since 1.2:
 
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ New API:
    caps.
  • GstCollectPads has support for flushing and a default handler for
    SEEK events now.
+ • New GstFlowAggregator helper object that simplifies handling of
+   flow returns in elements with multiple source pads. Additionally
+   GstPad now always stores the last flow return and provides an
+   API to retrieve it.
  • GstSegment has new API to offset the running time by a specific
    value and this is used in GstPad to allow positive and negative
    offsets in gst_pad_set_offset() in all situations.
@@ -43,6 +47,7 @@ New API:
  • Support for tiled, raw video formats has been added.
  • GstVideoDecoder and GstAudioDecoder have API to help aggregating tag
    events and merge custom tags into them consistently.
+ • GstBufferPool has support for flushing now.
  • playbin/playsink has support for application provided audio and video
    filters.
  • GstDiscoverer has new and simplified API to get details about missing
@@ -54,6 +59,10 @@ New API:
    DispManX (Raspberry Pi), EAGL (iOS), WGL (Windows) and generic X11,
    Wayland and EGL platforms.
    This replaces eglglessink and also is supposed to replace osxvideosink.
+ • New GstAggregator base class in gst-plugins-bad. This is supposed to
+   replace GstCollectPads in the future and fix long-known shortcomings
+   in its API. Together with the base class some elements are provided
+   already, like a videomixer (compositor).
 
 
 Major changes:
@@ -88,7 +97,7 @@ Major changes:
      are available on OS X and iOS now.
 
  • Other changes:
-   ∘ gst-libav now uses libav 10.1, and gained support for H265/HEVC.
+   ∘ gst-libav now uses libav 10.2, and gained support for H265/HEVC.
    ∘ Support for hardware codecs and special memory types has been
      improved with bugfixes and feature additions in various plugins
      and base classes.
@@ -97,7 +106,8 @@ Major changes:
    ∘ dvbsrc supports more delivery mechanisms and other features
      now, including DVB S2 and T2 support.
    ∘ The MPEGTS library has support for many more descriptors.
-   ∘ Major improvements to tsdemux, especially time related.
+   ∘ Major improvements to tsdemux and tsparse, especially time and
+     seeking related.
    ∘ souphttpsrc now has support for keep-alive connections,
      compression, configurable number of retries and configuration
      for SSL certificate validation.
@@ -110,9 +120,16 @@ Major changes:
      finish.
    ∘ videoflip can automatically flip based on the orientation tag.
    ∘ openjpeg supports the OpenJPEG2 API.
+   ∘ waylandsink was refactored and should be more useful now. It also
+     includes a small library which most likely is going to be removed
+     in the future and will result in extensions to the GstVideoOverlay
+     interface.
    ∘ gst-rtsp-server supports SRTP and MIKEY now.
+   ∘ gst-libav encoders are now negotiating any profile/level settings
+     with downstream via caps.
    ∘ Lots of fixes for coverity warnings all over the place.
-   ∘ 400+ fixed bug reports, and many other bug fixes and other
+   ∘ Negotiation related performance improvements.
+   ∘ 800+ fixed bug reports, and many other bug fixes and other
      improvements everywhere that had no bug report.
 
 Things to look out for:
@@ -120,3 +137,9 @@ Things to look out for:
    element.
  • The mfcdec element was removed and replaced by v4l2videodec.
  • osxvideosink is only available in OS X 10.6 or newer.
+ • On Android the namespace of the automatically generated Java class
+   for initialization of GStreamer has changed from com.gstreamer to
+   org.freedesktop.gstreamer to prevent namespace pollution.
+ • On iOS you have to update your gst_ios_init.h and gst_ios_init.m in
+   your projects from the one included in the binaries if you used the
+   GnuTLS GIO module before. The loading mechanism has slightly changed.