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@@ -1,64 +1,29 @@ -This is GStreamer 1.6.0 +This is GStreamer 1.6.1 -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! +The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first bugfix release in the stable +1.6 release 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. +This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.6.0. For a +full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla: + https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&limit=0&list_id=73005&order=bug_id&product=GStreamer&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=1.6.1 -See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the full list of -changes. +See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the latest version of this document. -Highlights +Major bugfixes -- 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 +- Crashes in the gst-libav encoders were fixed +- More DASH-IF test streams are working now +- Live DASH, HLS and MS SmoothStreaming streams work more reliable and other + fixes for the adaptive streaming protocols +- Reverse playback works with scaletempo to keep the audio pitch +- Correct stream-time is reported for negative applied_rate +- SRTP packet validation during decoding does not reject valid packets anymore +- Fixes for audioaggregator and aggregator to start producing output at the + right time, and e.g. not outputting lots of silence in the beginning +- gst-libav's internal ffmpeg snapshot was updated to 2.8.1 +- cerbero has support for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) +- Various memory leaks were fixed, including major leaks in playbin, playsink + and decodebin +- Various GObject-Introspection annotation fixes for bindings +- and many, many more: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&limit=0&list_id=73005&order=bug_id&product=GStreamer&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=1.6.1 |