| This is GStreamer 1.6.0 |
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| 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! |
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| This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new |
| features, bug fixes and other improvements. |
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| See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the full list of |
| changes. |
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| Highlights |
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| - 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 |
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