Tim-Philipp Müller | 566e4ec | 2018-10-02 23:08:34 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This is GStreamer gst-plugins-bad 1.14.4. |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 513ef5e | 2018-07-20 01:00:22 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug-fix release in the |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 48cde37 | 2018-03-19 20:24:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 48cde37 | 2018-03-19 20:24:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | The 1.14 release series adds new features on top of the 1.12 series and is |
| 7 | part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia |
| 8 | framework. |
Sebastian Dröge | ab7c61d | 2012-06-07 16:23:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | Full release notes can be found at: |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.14/ |
Sebastian Dröge | ce9c82a | 2017-01-12 15:39:06 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly |
| 15 | after the release. |
Sebastian Dröge | ce9c82a | 2017-01-12 15:39:06 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction |
| 18 | with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience. |
Sebastian Dröge | ce9c82a | 2017-01-12 15:39:06 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins |
Sebastian Dröge | b2ce00c | 2014-05-03 18:16:21 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional |
| 23 | media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio, |
| 24 | video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc. |
Sebastian Dröge | ab7c61d | 2012-06-07 16:23:09 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred |
| 27 | license |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose |
| 30 | problems for distributors |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made |
| 33 | their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one |
| 34 | reason or another. Many of these are are production quality |
| 35 | elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit |
| 36 | tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing |
| 37 | we expect yet. |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is |
| 40 | where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders |
| 41 | for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc. |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using |
| 44 | VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware. |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for |
| 47 | embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax |
| 48 | implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi. |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 46e8c20 | 2012-09-24 14:42:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | ==== Download ==== |
| 55 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 076809e | 2018-03-03 22:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download |
| 57 | directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | |
| 59 | The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at |
Tim-Philipp Müller | fd17861 | 2018-05-17 13:30:37 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/ |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | |
| 62 | ==== Homepage ==== |
| 63 | |
Sebastian Dröge | 50ae46c | 2016-02-19 11:50:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | |
| 66 | ==== Support and Bugs ==== |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | |
| 68 | We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests: |
Tim-Philipp Müller | fd17861 | 2018-05-17 13:30:37 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the |
| 74 | gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details). |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network. |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 46e8c20 | 2012-09-24 14:42:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | ==== Developers ==== |
Tim-Philipp Müller | 46e8c20 | 2012-09-24 14:42:25 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | |
Tim-Philipp Müller | bb48b60 | 2012-10-07 15:57:03 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned |
| 81 | from there (see link above). |
| 82 | |
| 83 | Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should |
| 84 | subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. |