-gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes. 2012-01-DD
+gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes. 2013-07-DD
Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems
-Copyright (C) 2011 Intel Corporation
+Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Intel Corporation
+Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora
-Version 0.3.2 - DD.Jan.2012
+Version 0.5.5 - DD.Jul.2013
+* Allocate VA/GLX capable buffers by default on X11 servers (Victor Jaquez)
+* Add support for video cropping in MPEG-2, VC-1 and H.264 codecs (+Sreerenj)
+* Fix creation of VA/GLX textures when video cropping is used
+* Fix raw image copies in vaapidownload / vaapiupload (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix MPEG-2 quantization matrices reset on new sequence headers (Cong Zhong)
+
+Version 0.5.4 - 14.Jun.2013
+* Streamline core libgstvaapi decoding library (API/ABI changes)
+* Use built-in codecparsers by default (or --disable-builtin-codecparsers)
+* Fix default Huffman tables generation (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix destruction of Wayland display resources
+* Fix explicit specification of display type to vaapisink
+* Fix memory leak in vaapiupload in GStreamer 0.10 builds (Halley Zhao)
+* Fix performance regression caused by improper use of GstTask callback
+* Fix raw decoding mode to transfer ownership of surface proxy to caller
+
+Version 0.5.3 - 18.Apr.2013
+* Add support for GStreamer 1.0.x API (+Sreerenj Balachandran)
+* Fix build on Fedora 17 (Víctor Manuel Jáquez)
+* Fix vaapidecode heuristics to detect decode timeouts
+* Fix fallback to sofware decoding if no hardware decoder is available
+* Fix regression in raw decoding mode whereby PTS or picture flags were lost
+
+Version 0.5.2 - 28.Mar.2013
+* Add support for video seek/reset (+Sreerenj Balachandran)
+* Improve MPEG-2 decoder robustness when packets are missing
+* Fix support for raw YUV buffers in vaapisink
+* Fix build on older Linux distributions with glib < 2.32
+* Fix decoding of MPEG-2 videos with height > 2800 pixels
+* Fix MPEG-2 decoding with explicit quantization matrices set (Cong Zhong)
+* Fix illegal write in vaapiupload for NV12 surfaces (Holger Kaelberer)
+
+Version 0.5.1 - 29.Jan.2013
+* Add simple decoder demo that only uses libgstvaapi
+* Fix thread-safety issues in the Wayland renderer
+* Fix VC-1 decoding bugs #692461, #692312, #692271, #692270, #692267
+* Fix decoding of VC-1 videos in AVI containers (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix H.264 parser to zero-initialize key syntax elements
+* Fix MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1 decoders to submit all decoded frames on <EOS>
+
+Version 0.5.0 - 15.Jan.2013
+* Optimize MPEG-2 and H.264 decoders
+* Use GstVideoDecoder API for vaapidecode (+Sreerenj Balachandran)
+* Add support for raw YUV buffers in vaapisink (+Halley Zhao)
+* Add support for global-alpha subpictures/overlay (+Holger Kaelberer)
+* Fix calculation of the vaapidecode time-out for a surface to get released
+
+Version 0.4.2 - 18.Dec.2012
+* Fix H.264 decoding on Cedar Trail platforms
+* Fix MPEG-4 decoding at end-of-stream (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix MPEG-4 decoding when a buffer contains multiple packets (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix memory leak in GstVaapiVideoBuffer for images and surfaces (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix symbols collision between built-in codecparsers/ and system library
+* Use GST_PLUGIN_PATH, if set, to install plugin elements (Halley Zhao)
+
+Version 0.4.1 - 27.Nov.2012
+* Add support for H.264 interlaced streams
+* Add support for Wayland 1.0 protocol (Robert Bradford)
+* Add upstream bitstream parsers library (codecparsers)
+* Fix build with the GNU gold linker
+* Fix detection of H.264 picture boundaries
+* Fix memory leak in MPEG-2 decoder for empty user-data packets
+* Fix H.264 decoder with MMCO-based reference picture marking process
+* Decode pending packets when an end-of-stream is received (+Feng Yuan)
+* Use pixel-aspect-ratio from bitstream parsers (Simon Farnsworth)
+
+Version 0.4.0 - 05.Oct.2012
+* Add support for video rotation
+* Add new video display APIs: Wayland and raw DRM for headless pipelines
+* Drop FFmpeg-based decoders, only use codecparsers-based ones
+* Only reset decoder if meaningful caps changed, e.g. size
+* Allocate the minimal number of video surfaces useful for decoding
+* Fix vaapisink to scale video down to fit the screen dimensions
+* Fix vaapidecode crash when trying to release inexistent lock (Philip Lorenz)
+
+Version 0.3.8 - 20.Sep.2012
+* Disable FFmpeg-based decoders by default
+* Add JPEG decoder (based on codecparsers)
+* Fix crash when destroying GstVaapiDisplay objects early
+* Fix GLX rendering with FBO + texture-from-pixmap (fallback for VA/GLX)
+* Fix rendering with EMGD driver when overlay mode is used
+* Fix MPEG-2 decoding on Intel Atom platforms with EMGD driver
+* Fix release of dangling proxy surfaces when decoder is reset (Philip Lorenz)
+
+Version 0.3.7 - 26.Jun.2012
+* Fix vaapidecode to report unsupported codec profiles
+* Fix MPEG-2 decoding of streams with extra slice() information
+* Map MPEG-2 compatible High profile streams to Main profile
+* Map MPEG-4 Simple Scalable profile streams to Advanced Simple (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix various MPEG-4 decoding bugs (timestamps, reference frames) (Feng Yuan)
+* Don't forcibly resize user provided X windows (Holger Kaelberer)
+* Recalculate render rect only if caps are negotiated (Holger Kaelberer)
+
+Version 0.3.6 - 02.Apr.2012
+* Add support for decoding MPEG-2 interlaced streams
+* Add support for interlaced streams with FFmpeg decoders (Holger Kaelberer)
+* Add vaapipostproc element for video postprocessing (e.g. deinterlacing)
+* Skip all H.264 Filler Data NALs
+* Fix crashes in MPEG-4 decoder (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix fallback from MPEG-2 Simple to Main profile
+* Improve decoding of misformed MPEG-2 streams (+Feng Yuan)
+* Avoid a hang in playbin2 for some MPEG-2 TS streams (Feng Yuan)
+
+Version 0.3.5 - 02.Mar.2012
+* Fix H.264 decoding when emulation prevention bytes are detected
+* Skip all H.264 Access Unit (AU) NALs (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix modification process of H.264 reference picture lists (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix MPEG-2 stream size calculation (Sreerenj Balachandran)
+* Fix MPEG-2 decoding on Intel Gen with multiple slices per MB line
+* Fix crash when downloading/uploading VA images on PowerVR (Cedar Trail)
+* Fix double buffer free issues with some VA drivers
+* Fix crash when there is no free surface available for decoding
+* Skip profiles which have no entrypoints (Halley Zhao)
+* Fix minor memory leaks in plug-in elements
+
+Version 0.3.4 - 01.Feb.2012
+* Add H.264 decoder (based on codecparsers)
+* Add workaround for qtdemux not exposing H.263 profiles (Halley Zhao)
+* Alias H.263 Baseline profile to MPEG-4:2 Simple profile (Halley Zhao)
+* Use optimized path to submit slice data buffers
+* Fix possible memory leak in MPEG-2 decoder
+* Fix vaapisink to cap window size to the maximum display size
+* Fix MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1 decoders to refcount reference surfaces properly
+
+Version 0.3.3 - 16.Jan.2012
+* Add MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1 decoders (based on codecparsers)
+* Add support for GstXOverlay::set_render_rectangle() in vaapisink
+* Fix memory leak of GL texture (Nicolas Dufresne)
+* Fix vaapisink to automatically fit video to window
+* Fix vaapiupload to only set caps on newly created buffers (Nicolas Dufresne)
+* Fix gst_vaapi_ensure_display() to honour DISPLAY environment variable
+
+Version 0.3.2 - 06.Jan.2012
* Rename vaapiconvert element to vaapiupload
* Fix vaapiupload from NV12 buffers
* Fix possible leaks of VA surfaces in FFmpeg decoder