+This is GStreamer gst-plugins-base 1.17.2.
-Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.1.4
+GStreamer 1.17 is the development branch leading up to the next major
+stable version which will be 1.18.
+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.
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix release
-in the 1.x stable series of the
-core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
+Full release notes will one day be found at:
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.18/
-The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
-It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
-It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
-will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
+shortly after the release.
+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
-
- * 703378 : pbutils: Allow getting descriptions for unfixed caps
- * 660195 : GstDiscoverer: signals " discovered " and " finished " are only emitted in async mode
- * 553520 : tools: add gst-play utility that wraps playbin for testing purposes
- * 691462 : typefind: ADTS/AAC wrongly detected as MP2
- * 695889 : libs: many headers don't compile by themselves
- * 703405 : parse: Allow creating plain elements instead of single-element bins
- * 703669 : gst_rtcp_packet_fb_set_fci_length sets an incorrect buffer size.
- * 704929 : Prevent oggdemux from seeking a lot when the SEQUENTIAL scheduler flag is set
- * 705109 : audiodecoder/videodecoder: Needs to flush taglist on reception of stream-start
- * 705144 : mpegvideoparse: support field encoding for interlaced video
- * 705157 : tests: playbin_complex check fails during make check
- * 705369 : playbin: fix get-tags actions
- * 705555 : streamsynchronizer: should forward queries
- * 705826 : typefinding: add typefinder for webp imageformat
- * 705828 : videodecoder/videoencoder: Behaviour changes in ::reset() vfunc
- * 706061 : typefind: improved and extended typefinder for module music
- * 706569 : regression: playbin: chained oggs don't work any more
- * 706680 : dmabuf: fix mmap counting
- * 706885 : videoencoder: Fix forwarding of GstForceKeyUnit events
+ - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
==== Download ====
-You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
-directory: http://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 ====
-The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
==== 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
-
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Andoni Morales Alastruey
- * Arnaud Vrac
- * Carlos Rafael Giani
- * David Schleef
- * Edward Hervey
- * Jie Yang
- * Jonathan Matthew
- * Lubosz Sarnecki
- * Matthieu Bouron
- * Michael Olbrich
- * Olivier Crête
- * Rico Tzschichholz
- * Sebastian Dröge
- * Sjoerd Simons
- * Sreerenj Balachandran
- * Thibault Saunier
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Wim Taymans
- * Youness Alaoui
-
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