-gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes. 2010-03-22
-Copyright (C) 2010 Splitted-Desktop Systems
+gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes. 2014-07-29
+Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems
+Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Intel Corporation
+Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora
-Version 0.1.1 - 22.Mar.2010
+Version 0.5.9 - 29.Jul.2014
+* Add VP8 decoder (+Halley Zhao)
+* Add H.264 MVC decoder and encoder (+Sreerenj Balachandran, Xiaowei Li)
+* Fix support for Firefox >= 30 when built with GStreamer 1.0 APIs
+* Fix MPEG-4:2 decoder hang on skipped frames (Fabrice Bellet) [#733324]
+* Fix MPEG-2 decoder to propagate PTS from demuxer (Jan Schmidt) [#732719]
+* Improvements to H.264 decoder
+ + Add support for grayscale encoded clips
+ + Add minor optimizations to the parsing process
+ + Make support for interlaced streams more robust [#701340]
+ + Fix multiple slices decoding with varying slice types [#724518]
+ + Fix parsing of multiple SEI messages in single NAL units (Aurelien Zanelli)
+* Improvements to plugin elements
+ + Add download capability to vaapidecode [#733243]
+ + Add support for crop regions in VPP mode [#720730]
+ + Allow selection of a particular "display-name" for vaapisink [#722247]
+ + Fix support for headless pipelines, e.g. vaapisink display="drm" mode
+ + Fix creation of output surface pool for vaapipostproc (Simon Farnsworth)
+ + Fix vaapipostproc "deinterlace-mode" semantics (Simon Farnsworth) [#726361]
+ + Fix memory leak in vaapidecode ! {glimagesink,cluttersink} (Matthew Waters)
+ + Fix vaapidecode hang when downstream errors out (Matthew Waters) [#733897]
+
+Version 0.5.8 - 23.Jan.2014
+* Add H.264 video encoding (+Feng Yuan)
+* Add MPEG-2 video encoding (+Guangxin Xu)
+* Add initial support for GStreamer 1.3 (Matthieu Bouron)
+* Add support for H.264 Constrained Baseline profile (Feng Yuan)
+* Add support for colorbalance adjustment in vaapipostproc (Halley Zhao)
+* Add color space conversion in vaapisink (Holger Kaelberer) [#722255]
+* Fix OpenGL interop with clutter-gst and glimagesink elements (Matthieu Bouron)
+* Fix decoding of H.264 quantization matrices (+Cong Zhong) [#706406]
+* Fix robustness of H.264 decoder when packets are missing
+* Fix hang in vaapidecode on SIGINT [<Ctrl>+C] (Fen Yuan) [#720584]
+* Fix vaapisink initialization with foreign window (Holger Kaelberer) [#722244]
+* Fix Sharpening filter in vaapipostproc (Halley Zhao) [#720375]
+
+Version 0.5.7 - 21.Nov.2013
+* Add support for GStreamer 1.2 (+Victor Jaquez, Sreerenj Balachandran)
+* Add support for video processing (VA/VPP) (+Halley Zhao)
+ + Scaling and color conversion
+ + Image enhancement filters: Sharpening, Noise Reduction
+ + Advanced deinterlacing: Motion-Adaptive, Motion-Compensated
+* Fix vaapidecode pause/resume/seek capabilities (+Guangxin Xu)
+* JPEG decoder bug fixes and improvements
+ + Add support for multiscan images
+ + Improve overall performance by +12%
+ + Fix robustness and tolerance to missing packets
+ + Fix detection of image boundaries (Junfeng Xu)
+ + Fix decoding from Logitech Pro C920 cameras (Junfeng Xu)
+
+Version 0.5.6 - 29.Aug.2013
+* Add render-to-pixmap API to bypass VA/GLX in clutter-gst
+* Add initial support for video-processing APIs (+Halley Zhao)
+* Add support for video cropping and deinterlacing to the Wayland backend
+* Add "force-aspect-ratio" property to vaapisink (Simon Farnsworth)
+* Fix support for clutter-gst in GStreamer 0.10 builds
+* Fix HW accelerated rendering with SW decoded pipelines
+* Fix videotestsrc ! vaapisink pipelines (Guangxin Xu)
+* Fix memory leak of raw video uploader objects (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix decoding without a video parser element before `vaapidecde'
+* Fix regression in MPEG-2 decoder due to incomplete video cropping support
+* Fix dead-lock condition on Wayland when the end-of-stream is reached
+
+Version 0.5.5 - 15.Jul.2013
+* Allow creation of video surfaces with an explicit pixel format
+* 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 memory leak when processing interlaced pictures
+* 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)
+* Fix direct linking of vaapidownload element to xvimagesink (Feng Yuan)
+* Fix memory corruption in video pool implementation, e.g. for clutter-gst
+
+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
+* Fix memory leak in vaapiupload initialization function
+* Fix possible crash in vaapidecode deinitialization code
+* Add vaapidownload element to convert from VA surfaces to YUV pixels
+
+Version 0.3.1 - 16.Dec.2011
+* Fix check for supported VA images
+* Add support for partial VA image updates
+* Add support for new subtitle/overlay infrastructure (Thibault Saunier)
+* Add missing video context queries in vaapisink/vaapiconvert (Nicolas Dufresne)
+
+Version 0.3.0 - 09.Dec.2011
+* Group all plugins into the same bundle
+* Use new XOverlay API (Sreerenj Balachandran)
+* Use new GstVideoContext and GstSurfaceBuffer API (Nicolas Dufresne)
+* Fix vaapidecode sink caps if decoder is in NULL state (Sreerenj Balachandran)
+* Fix auto-plugging and downstream buffer allocation (Nicolas Dufresne)
+* Fix crash in VA display init if no VA configs were found (Nicolas Dufresne)
+
+Version 0.2.7 - 07.Dec.2011
+* Relicense plugins and tests to LGPL v2.1 (SDS)
+* Fix MPEG-2 decoding from TS & PS streams
+* Fix build with newer versions of FFmpeg
+* Fix vaapiconvert direct-rendering modes
+* Fix use of invalid data at the end-of-stream
+
+Version 0.2.6 - 14.Jun.2011
+* Fix licensing terms (LGPL v2.1)
+
+Version 0.2.5 - 20.Jul.2010
+* Fix build with older VA-API 0.29-sds
+* Fix decoding of some H.264 streams. e.g. Ice Age 2 trailer
+* Fix VA/GLX support with texture-from-pixmap and GLX version < 1.3
+
+Version 0.2.4 - 18.May.2010
+* Fix video rendering rect within an embedder window (Totem)
+* Disable GLX rendering when vaapisink uses a foreign X window
+
+Version 0.2.3 - 16.May.2010
+* Fix memory leak of encoded buffers
+* Fix decoder caps to report codec aliases
+* Fix VC-1 decoding through the playbin2 pipeline
+
+Version 0.2.2 - 14.May.2010
+* Fix packaging dependencies
+* Fix a crash in the FFmpeg decoder on close
+* Fix OpenGL texture internal format (Clutter)
+* Fix foreign window size for embedding (Totem)
+
+Version 0.2.1 - 12.May.2010
+* Fix integration within the playbin2 pipeline
+* Fix vaapidecode to expose the HW supported caps only
+* Add GstXOverlay interface to vaapisink (Totem media player)
+
+Version 0.2.0 - 05.May.2010
+* Relicense gst-libs/ code to LGPL v2.1+
+* Add FFmpeg/VAAPI decoder for the new `vaapidecode' element
+
+Version 0.1.2 - 30.Mar.2010
+* Add AYUV image format
+* Add compatibility with the original VA-API 0.29
+* Add OpenGL support through VA/GLX extensions or TFP+FBO fallback
+
+Version 0.1.1 - 23.Mar.2010
* Document public API for libgstvaapi-*.so.*
* Optimize `vaapiconvert' pipeline (direct-rendering)
* Allow `vaapisink` to render videos in fullscreen mode
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