This is GStreamer 1.6.0 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in the stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new features, bug fixes and other improvements. See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the full list of changes. Highlights - Stereoscopic 3D and multiview video support - Trick mode API for key-frame only fast-forward/fast-reverse playback etc. - Improved DTS (decoding timestamp) vs. PTS (presentation timestamp) handling to account for negative DTS - New GstVideoConverter API for more optimised and more correct conversion of raw video frames between all supported formats, with rescaling - v4l2src now supports renegotiation - v4l2transform can now do scaling - V4L2 Element now report Colorimetry properly - Easier chunked recording of MP4, Matroska, Ogg, MPEG-TS: new splitmuxsink and multifilesink improvements - Content Protection signalling API and Common Encryption (CENC) support for DASH/MP4 - Many adaptive streaming (DASH, HLS and MSS) improvements - New PTP and NTP network client clocks and better remote clock tracking stability - High-quality text subtitle overlay at display resolutions with glimagesink or gtkglsink - RECORD support for the GStreamer RTSP Server - Retransmissions (RTX) support in RTSP server and client - RTSP seeking support in client and server has been fixed - RTCP scheduling improvements and reduced size RTCP support - MP4/MOV muxer acquired a new "robust" mode of operation which attempts to keep the output file in a valid state at all times - Live mixing support in aggregator, audiomixer and compositor was improved a lot - compositor now supports rescaling and converting inputs streams on the fly - New audiointerleave element with proper input synchronisation and live input support - Blackmagic Design DeckLink capture and playback card support was rewritten from scratch; 2k/4k support; mode sensing - KLV metadata support in RTP and MPEG-TS - H.265 video encoder (x265), decoders (libav, libde265) and RTP payloader and depayloaders - New DTLS plugin and SRTP/DTLS support - OpenGL3 support, multiple contexts and context propagation, 3D video, transfer/conversion separation, subtitle blending - New OpenGL-based QML video sink, Gtk GL video sink, CoreAnimation CAOpenGLLayerSink video sink - gst-libav switched to ffmpeg as libav-provider, gains support for 3D/multiview video, trick modes, and the CAVS codec - GstHarness API for unit tests - gst-editing-services got a completely new ges-launch-1.0 interface, improved mixing support and integration into gst-validate - gnonlin has been deprecated in favor of nle (Non Linear Engine) in gst-editing-services - gst-validate has a new plugin system, an extensive default testsuite, support for concurrent test runs and valgrind support - cerbero build tool for SDK binary packages gains new 'bundle-source' command - Various improvements to the Android, iOS, OS X and Windows platform support