+This is GStreamer gst-plugins-base 1.17.2.
-Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.11.2
+GStreamer 1.17 is the development branch leading up to the next major
+stable version which will be 1.18.
-The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
-1.11 release series. The 1.11 release series is adding new features on top of
-the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 1.10 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
-series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.11 release series
-will lead to the stable 1.12 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added
-API can still change until that point.
+The 1.17 development series adds new features on top of the 1.16 series and is
+part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
+framework.
+Full release notes will one day be found at:
-Full release notes will be provided at some point during the 1.11 release
-cycle, highlighting all the new features, bugfixes, performance optimizations
-and other important changes.
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.18/
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
+shortly after the release.
-Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.
+This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction
+with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience.
+ - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins
-This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
-plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
-as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
-decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
+ - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional
+ media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio,
+ video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc.
-This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
-writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
-their development.
+ - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred
+ license
-This module contains elements for, among others:
+ - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose
+ problems for distributors
- device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
- containers: ogg
- codecs: vorbis, theora
- text: textoverlay, subparse
- sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
- network: tcp
- typefind functions
- audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
- visualisation: libvisual
- video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
- high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
- libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
+ - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made
+ their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one
+ reason or another. Many of these are are production quality
+ elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit
+ tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing
+ we expect yet.
+ - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is
+ where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders
+ for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc.
-Other modules containing plugins are:
+ - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using
+ VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware.
+ - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for
+ embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax
+ implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi.
-gst-plugins-good
-contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
-gst-plugins-ugly
-contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
- distributors
-gst-plugins-bad
-contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
- rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
- and/or unit tests
-gst-libav
-contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
+ - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP
-
-
-
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 740557 : videotestsrc: add ball motion based on system clock
- * 775553 : playback: Fix leak on select_streams
- * 775893 : decodbin: Leaking pads on errors
- * 776797 : encodebin: fix caps leak in test
- * 777458 : decklinkaudiosrc: Option to use max channels supported by device
- * 777530 : decodebin3: Fix crash caused by slot double freeing
- * 778298 : [REGRESSION]: discoverer: Misunderstands stream topology when a parser does stream formart conversion
- * 778702 : videotimecode: Init from GDateTime
- * 778974 : video-converter: Implement multi-threaded scaling/conversion
- * 779010 : videotimecode: Validate for drop-frame correctness
+ - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
==== Download ====
-You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
-directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
+You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
+directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
-http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/
==== Homepage ====
==== Support and Bugs ====
-We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
-http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
+We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org
+for bug reports and feature requests:
+
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
+
+Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See
-Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/
+
+for more details.
For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
==== Developers ====
-GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
-from there (see link above).
+GStreamer source code repositories can be found on GitLab on freedesktop.org:
+
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
+
+and can also be cloned from there and this is also where you can submit
+Merge Requests or file issues for bugs or feature requests.
Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
-subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
-
-
-Contributors to this release
-
- * Carl Karsten
- * Edward Hervey
- * Georg Lippitsch
- * Guillaume Desmottes
- * Heekyoung Seo
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jochen Henneberg
- * Olivier Crete
- * Sebastian Dröge
- * Seungha Yang
- * Stefan Sauer
- * Thibault Saunier
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vincent Penquerc'h
- * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
-
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