-Release notes for GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0.0
+This is GStreamer gst-plugins-good 1.16.2.
-The GStreamer project is pleased to announce the very first release of the
-new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
+The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug-fix release in the
+stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
-The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI
-compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed in parallel
-with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
+The 1.16 release series adds new features on top of the 1.14 series and is
+part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
+framework.
-Major improvements include: more flexible memory handling; extensible and
-negotiable metadata for buffers; caps negotiation and renegotiation mechanisms,
-decoupled from buffer allocation; improved caps renegotiation; automatic
-re-sending of state for dynamic pipelines; reworked and more fine-grained pad
-probing; simpler and more descriptive audio and video caps; more efficient
-allocation of buffers, events and other mini objects; improved timestamp
-handling; support for gobject-inspection-based language bindings; countless
-other improvements.
+Full release notes will one day be found at:
-Most of these changes involve the GStreamer plugin API. The application API
-has changed comparatively little, and most applications should be fairly easy
-to port to the new API. There is a porting guide available.
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/
-The GStreamer team would like to thank everyone who helped bring this release
-about, whether by submitting patches, reporting bugs, testing, sponsoring
-development, attending hackfests, or simply supplying moral support.
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
+shortly after the release.
-This is the end of a long development process, but also the beginning of
-one. This release does not mark the pinnacle of perfection, but the point
-where the team is content with the API and stability and quality of the code
-base in general, especially compared to the old 0.10 series.
-
-There will be bugs to fix, and starting from this release there will be
-distinct bug-fixing and feature development cycles, with the goal of getting
-bug-fixes out quicker and unencumbered by other more risky changes. See
-
- http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReleasePlanning/RoadMap
-
-for a tentative road map and possible schedule.
-
-=== Module
-
-"Such ingratitude. After all the times I've saved your life."
-
-A collection of plugins you'd want to have right next to you on the
-battlefield. Shooting sharp and making no mistakes, these plugins have it
-all: good looks, good code, and good licensing. Documented and dressed up
-in tests. If you're looking for a role model to base your own plugin on,
-here it is.
-
-If you find a plot hole or a badly lip-synced line of code in them,
-let us know - it is a matter of honour for us to ensure Blondie doesn't look
-like he's been walking 100 miles through the desert without water.
-
-This module contains a set of plugins that we consider to have good quality
-code, correct functionality, our preferred license (LGPL for the plugin code,
-LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library).
-
-We believe distributors can safely ship these plugins.
-
-People writing elements should base their code on these elements.
-
-Other modules containing plugins are:
-
- gst-plugins-base : a basic set of well-supported plugins
- gst-plugins-ugly : a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems
- for distributors
- gst-plugins-bad : a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
- rigorous quality testing we expect
- gst-libav : a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
-
-==== Download
-
-You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
-
- http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
-
-==== GStreamer Homepage
-
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-
- http://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
- or
- http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bugs/
-
-==== Developers
-
-GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be
-cloned from there. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and
-applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list and/or pop into
-our #gstreamer IRC channel on Freenode.
-
-==== Contributors to this release
-
- Alban Browaeys
- Aleix Conchillo Flaque
- Alessandro Decina
- Alexander Saprykin
- Alexey Fisher
- Andoni Morales Alastruey
- Andrej Gelenberg
- Antoine Tremblay
- Anton Belka
- Anton Novikov
- Arun Raghavan
- Bastien Nocera
- Branko Subasic
- Chris Pankow
- Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
- Daniela
- David Corvoysier
- David Schleef
- Dominique Leuenberger
- Edward Hervey
- Gary Ching-Pang Lin
- Hans de Goede
- Havard Graff
- Huacai Chen
- idc-dragon
- Jan Schmidt
- Javier Jardón
- Jayakrishnan M
- Jens Georg
- John Ogness
- Jonas Holmberg
- Josep Torra
- Leo Singer
- Luis de Bethencourt
- Marc Leeman
- Maria Giovanna Chiossa
- Mark Nauwelaerts
- Martin Ertsaas
- Mart Raudsepp
- Matej Knopp
- Mathias Hasselmann
- Matthias Clasen
- Michael Jones
- Michael Rubinstein
- Michael Smith
- Mohammed Sameer
- Nicola Murino
- Nicolas Dufresne
- Oleksij Rempel (Alexey Fisher)
- Olivier Crête
- Pascal Buhler
- Patricia Muscalu
- Peteris Krisjanis
- Peter Seiderer
- Philip Jägenstedt
- Philippe Normand
- Raimo Järvi
- Ralph Giles
- René Stadler
- Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
- Robert Swain
- Ross Burton
- Sebastian Dröge
- Sebastian Rasmussen
- Sjoerd Simons
- Sreerenj Balachandran
- Stefan Sauer
- Stig Sandnes
- Thiago Santos
- Thomas Vander Stichele
- Tim-Philipp Müller
- Tuukka Pasanen
- uraeus
- Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
- Vincent Penquerc'h
- Vincent Untz
- Wim Taymans
- Xavi Artigas
- Yaakov Selkowitz
- Youness Alaoui
- Руслан Ижбулатов
+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
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred
+ license
+
+ - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose
+ problems for distributors
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP
+
+ - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
+
+==== Download ====
+
+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
+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/
+
+==== Homepage ====
+
+The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+
+==== Support and Bugs ====
+
+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
+
+ 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).
+
+There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
+
+==== Developers ====
+
+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:
+
+ https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel