X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE;h=0a189fe2a62042d072fbe6c298ea9bba2b05ab3e;hb=ce43de86902c4e9c8ed4e9682602664cb9bce2ee;hp=5c5f5f78bb34d231e0e846c8185cacec96ee8d8a;hpb=cd202c647b01e49a4951d383d30e8779067c0a0a;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index 5c5f5f7..0a189fe 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,70 +1,83 @@ +This is GStreamer core 1.16.0. -Release notes for GStreamer 1.2.0 +The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release in the +stable 1.0 API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! +As always, this release is again packed with new features, bug fixes and +other improvements. -The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new feature release -in the 1.x stable series of the -core of the GStreamer streaming media framework. +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. +Full release notes will one day be found at: -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. + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ +Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided +shortly after the release. -The 1.x series has been reworked for more flexible memory handling, improved -caps negotiation and re-negotiation, better handling of dynamic pipelines, -and increased performance in general. It also features countless other feature -additions and enhancements. +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, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. -For actual media playback, you will need other modules. + - 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-base -contains a basic set of well-supported plugins -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-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. -Bugs fixed in this release - - * 706551 : gsttestclock check failed - * 708605 : testclock: Does not handle unscheduled entries correctly - * 708636 : collectpads: Should set *all* its pads to flushing when set_flushing is called, not only the ones in the public list - * 708668 : context: Potential regression + - 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: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ +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/gstreamer/ +https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/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). @@ -73,19 +86,14 @@ There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network. ==== 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 - - * Alex Ashley - * Edward Hervey - * Mathieu Duponchelle - * Sebastian Dröge - * Tim-Philipp Müller - * Wim Taymans -  \ No newline at end of file +subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list: + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel