+This is GStreamer core 1.16.1.
-Release notes for GStreamer 1.7.90
+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 GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the stable
-1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of
-the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
-series of the GStreamer 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.
+Full release notes will one day be found at:
-Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
-during the stable 1.8 release series.
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
+shortly after the release.
-This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
-For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
+This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction
+with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience.
-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)
+ - 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
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 728326 : Check for return values of gst_buffer_map and gst_memory_map
- * 759539 : Stopping a stream with AAC very soon after starting crashes
- * 760979 : tracers: Allow adding tracers programatically without defining environment variables
- * 762450 : tags: add GST_TAG_CONDUCTOR
- * 762702 : gst_bus_add_watch will SEGV when process reaches fd limit
- * 762778 : API: add gst_element_class_add_static_pad_template()
- * 762792 : amcvideodec: Can't render to Surface if the color format is not supported
- * 762845 : tests: ghostpad: Fix memory leak
- * 762849 : bus: GSource can access GPollFD after the bus was destroyed
+ - 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 ====
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://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/
==== Homepage ====
==== 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 bugzilla as well.
+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).
==== 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
-
- * Adam Miartus
- * Edward Hervey
- * George Yunaev
- * James Stevenson
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Nirbheek Chauhan
- * Sebastian Dröge
- * Thiago Santos
- * Thibault Saunier
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vineeth TM
-
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