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Tim-Philipp Müller566e4ec2018-10-02 23:08:34 +01001This is GStreamer gst-plugins-bad 1.14.4.
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +00002
Tim-Philipp Müller513ef5e2018-07-20 01:00:22 +01003The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug-fix release in the
Tim-Philipp Müller48cde372018-03-19 20:24:05 +00004stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +00005
Tim-Philipp Müller48cde372018-03-19 20:24:05 +00006The 1.14 release series adds new features on top of the 1.12 series and is
7part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
8framework.
Sebastian Drögeab7c61d2012-06-07 16:23:09 +02009
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000010Full release notes can be found at:
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +000011
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000012 https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.14/
Sebastian Drögece9c82a2017-01-12 15:39:06 +020013
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000014Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly
15after the release.
Sebastian Drögece9c82a2017-01-12 15:39:06 +020016
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000017This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction
18with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience.
Sebastian Drögece9c82a2017-01-12 15:39:06 +020019
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000020 - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins
Sebastian Drögeb2ce00c2014-05-03 18:16:21 +020021
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000022 - 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 Drögeab7c61d2012-06-07 16:23:09 +020025
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000026 - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred
27 license
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010028
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000029 - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose
30 problems for distributors
Thomas Vander Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000031
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000032 - 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 Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010038
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000039 - 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 Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000042
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000043 - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using
44 VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware.
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010045
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000046 - 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 Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000049
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000050 - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP
Thomas Vander Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000051
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000052 - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
Tim-Philipp Müller46e8c202012-09-24 14:42:25 +010053
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010054==== Download ====
55
Tim-Philipp Müller076809e2018-03-03 22:39:27 +000056You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
57directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010058
59The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
Tim-Philipp Müllerfd178612018-05-17 13:30:37 +010060https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010061
62==== Homepage ====
63
Sebastian Dröge50ae46c2016-02-19 11:50:25 +020064The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010065
66==== Support and Bugs ====
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +000067
68We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
Tim-Philipp Müllerfd178612018-05-17 13:30:37 +010069https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +000070
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010071Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +000072
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010073For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
74gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +000075
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010076There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
Tim-Philipp Müller46e8c202012-09-24 14:42:25 +010077
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010078==== Developers ====
Tim-Philipp Müller46e8c202012-09-24 14:42:25 +010079
Tim-Philipp Müllerbb48b602012-10-07 15:57:03 +010080GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
81from there (see link above).
82
83Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
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