X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE;h=518b6916c41a358cacc3abc7561a94acfd9b4c67;hb=dac5966da6a0f53d0443dfa1ac239289028c415d;hp=8b8bc5d16167d908f5eda55442a958f851e7a57f;hpb=bfc87ac576fa36af3bf75b2fa7c4e6c989637814;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index 8b8bc5d..518b691 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,102 +1,96 @@ +This is GStreamer core 1.16.1. -Release notes for GStreamer 0.11.3 "Thrill of the Hunt" - +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 1.16 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. -The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release -in the 0.11.x unstable series of the -core of the GStreamer streaming media framework. +Full release notes will one day be found at: + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ -The 0.11.x series is an unstable series targeted at developers and will -eventually lead up to the stable 1.0 series. -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. +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. -The 0.11.x series has improved memory management and features -various cleanups and enhancements. + - 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. -This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. -For actual media playback, you will need other modules. + - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred + license -gst-plugins-base -contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins -gst-plugins-good -contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license -gst-plugins-ugly -contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for - distributors -gst-plugins-bad -contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the - rigorous quality testing we expect + - 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. -Features of this release - - * Various bug fixes and improvements - * Input-selector defaults to sync-streams=true - * Queue don't just start the thread on linking - * Add user_data and notify to gst_memory_new_wrapped() - * Rework caps function for performance - * Improve basetransform allocator handling - * Implement metadata transforms - * Metadata registration improvements - * Use generic marshallers everywhere - * Push Sticky events in more cases - * Register queries like events - * Add DRAIN serialized query - * Add 0-padding and prefix to GstMemory - * Rework the ALLOCATION query - * Allow setting the allocator in a bufferpool - * Improve pull/get_range -There were no bugs fixed in this release - + - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for + embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax + implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi. -Download + - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP -You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory: -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ + - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing -GStreamer Homepage +==== Download ==== -More details can be found on the project's website: -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ +You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download +directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ -Support and Bugs +The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at +https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/ -We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests: -http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer +==== Homepage ==== -Developers +The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ -GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there. -Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should -subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we -will create more lists as necessary. +==== Support and Bugs ==== - -Applications +We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org +for bug reports and feature requests: -Various applications have early ports to GStreamer 0.11 including Totem, RhythmBox, -Webkit, Jokosher, Transmageddon and others. We're working on porting more applications. + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer - -Contributors to this release - - * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller - * David Schleef - * Edward Hervey - * Mark Nauwelaerts - * Matej Knopp - * Ryan Lortie - * Sebastian Dröge - * Sreerenj Balachandran - * Stefan Sauer - * Tim-Philipp Müller - * Wim Taymans -  \ No newline at end of file +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