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-gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes.  2015-12-07
-Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Splitted-Desktop Systems
-Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Intel Corporation
-Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora
-
-Version 0.7 - 07.Dec.2015
-* Add VP9 Decoder
-* Improvements to HEVC(H265) decoder
-  + Fix the decoding of dependent slice segment
-  + Fix decoding of stream when it has temporal sublayers
-  + Added Workaround to recognize wrongly encoded main profile streams
-  + Add SEI Header parsing
-  + Fix the value assigning for delta_chroma_log2_weight_denom
-  + Fix default value assignment of pred_weight_table
-  + Fix ChromaOffsetL0/ChromaOffsetL1 calculation
-  + Add calculation of WpOffsetHalfRangeC
-  + Fix the scaling list scan order
-  + Fix the picture addition in dpb() based on spec H265 v3 (04/2015)
-  + Fix the dpb_add() based on C.5.2.3
-  + Fix flushing of dpb for EOS/EOB nal
-* Added infrastructure for handling corrupted pictures in h264 decoder [#703921, #751434]
-* Add number of fixes and optimizations to GstContext sharing [#757598]
-* Add API for dynamic detection of OpenGL API in use [#753099]
-* Make vaapidecode + glimagesink combination work with opengl3 [#753099]
-* Fix segfault in vaapipostproc [#752558]
-* Fix seeking while using GLTextureUpload for rendering [#752929]
-* Ported JPEG decoder to new API/ABI changes in codecparser
-* Removed gstvaapiuploader [#752777]
-* Fix 0/1 frame-rate handling in encoder [#744042]
-* Validate chroma sampling according to the VA's RT format in Encoder [#744042]
-* Number of improvements in vaapi video memory handling [#744042]
-* Stabilization of vaapidecodebin [#749554, #757957]
-* Wayland fixes: Don't return GST_FLOW_ERROR on flushing [#753598]
-* Add yasm as build dependency
-* Remvoved custom(non-official) debian parallel compilation option
-* Fix multi-resolution video handling in vaapidecode [#753914]
-* Adding stereoscopic/multiview upstream API support [#750835]
-* Fixed fps calculation for for forced latency framerate [#755040]
-* Fix build issues while disabling built-in codecparsers [#754845]
-* Mark support for GStreamer 1.2 as obsolete
-* Update libvpx submodule to 1.4.0
-* Fix caps negotiation for meta:GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta [#756686]
-* Fixed leaked display instance in vaapidecodebin [#757595]
-
-Version 0.6 - 15.Jul.2015
-* Add HEVC(H265) Decoder
-* Add HEVC(H265) Encoder
-* Add VP8 Encoder
-* Add JPEG Encoder
-* Add support for EGL [#743846, #743847, #741079]
-* Add a vaapidecodebin(vaapidecode->queue->vaapipostproc) element [#745216]
-* Add skin-tone-enhancement feature in vaapipostproc [#744088]
-* Add support for H.264 MVC Multiview High profile encoding with more than 2 views [#732453]
-* Add support for GstVideoGLTextureOrientation in plugins
-* Add support for BGRA textures in plugins
-* Removed all GStreamer 0.10 and 1.0 specific code sections [#745728,#732666]
-* Add support for loss of picturers in h264 decoder [#745048,#703921]
-* Add a simple-encoder test program that uses libgstvaapi for video encoding [#719528]
-* Add finer wayland frame control and many other optimizations [#719528, #749078, #747492#]
-* Add scaling of quality factor and Qantization tables for JPEG encoder [#748335]
-* Add GstColorBalance interface in vaapipostproc [#720376]
-* Add a handoff signal to vaapisink [#747905]
-* Add rounding control handling for VC1 simple and Main profile [#743958]
-* Record glconext supplied by downstream to enable run-time compatibility check [#725643]
-* Switch back to single thread implementation in vaapidecode [#742605]
-* Set decoding latency in vaapidecode by assuming realtime performance fo the HW decoding [#740419]
-* Allow vaapidecode to connect with glimagesink, mark x11 display as compatible with EGL [#745902]
-* Allow decoding of VC1 streams which contain user BDUs [#741237]
-* Use git.mk, a small Makefile to autogenerate .gitignore files
-* Expose the overlay capability in vaapisink for compatibility with dvbsuboverlay [#750095]
-* Enable VPP element in vaapidecodebin only if there is HW support [#749554]
-* Fix autoplugging of vaapidecode in playbin for wmv/asf streams
-* Fix multi-slice hevc encoding [#749854]
-* Fix ABBA deadlock between vaapisink and vaapipostproc if running in different threds [#738249]
-* Fix Seeking failure while using navseek in pipeline [#738677]
-* Fix PTS cache for MPEG2 GOP start [#748676]
-* Fix the wrong selection of passthrough mode in vaapipostproc [#748184]
-* Fix GstVaapiVideoPool related dead-lock [#747944]
-* Fix the race condition while setting drm device type [#747914]
-* Fix crash in vaapidecode if buffer outlives the decoder [#745189]
-* Fix memory leak in vaapidecode [#743226]
-* Fix multiple caps negotiation issues with vaapi elements [#744618]
-* Improve check for upstream element that requires DMABUF buffer pool
-* Fix vaapisink memory leak in debug mode
-* Fix crash when seeking mpeg2 strems
-* Fix support for Wayland/EGL running alongside X11
-
-Version 0.5.10 - 3.Feb.2015
-* Add support for DRM Render-Nodes for headless operation
-* Add support for VA surface buffer sharing with DMABUF and GEM handles
-* Add support for v4l2src with io-mode={dmabuf,dmabuf-import}
-* Drop support for VA/GLX specific APIs in libgstvaapi and vaapisink [#736711]
-* Improvements to H.264 codecs
-  + Fix profile limits for encoding
-  + Fix pixel-aspect-ratio in the encoded stream
-  + Add decoding support for interlaced streams with repeat-first-field (RFF)
-  + Fix decoding of interlaced streams in top-field-first order (TFF) [#739291]
-  + Fix decoding of UK DVB-T2 streams [#739291]
-* Improvements to plugin elements
-  + Add support for dma_buf imports (Wind Yuan) [#735362]
-  + Allow for SW decoding fallbacks with unsupported profiles [#730997]
-  + Make vaapipostproc work with SW elements (+Victor Jaquez) [#720174, #704078]
-  + Allow vaapipostproc to integrate with GL downstream elements [#735231]
-  + Add support for high-quality scaling to vaapipostproc ("scale-method=hq")
-  + Fix advanced deinterlacing when it is the unique filter applied
-  + Add GstColorBalance interface to vaapisink (Changzhi Wei) [#722390]
-  + Implement the GstNavigation interface into vaapisink [#711479]
-  + Allow rescaling of X11 window for vaapisink (Holger Kaelberer) [#711478]
-  + Optimizations to vaapidecode thread handling (Sebastian Dröge) [#734616]
-  + Fix deinterlacing from non VA memory buffers (Simon Farnsworth) [#726270]
-  + Fix clearing of subtitle overlay (Simon Farnsworth)
-  + Fix clearing of vaapipostproc state during restart (Michael Olbrich)
-
-Version 0.5.9 - 29.Jul.2014
-* Add VP8 decoder (+Halley Zhao)
-* Add H.264 MVC decoder and encoder (+Sreerenj Balachandran, Xiaowei Li)
-* Fix support for Firefox >= 30 when built with GStreamer 1.0 APIs
-* Fix MPEG-4:2 decoder hang on skipped frames (Fabrice Bellet) [#733324]
-* Fix MPEG-2 decoder to propagate PTS from demuxer (Jan Schmidt) [#732719]
-* Improvements to H.264 decoder
-  + Add support for grayscale encoded clips
-  + Add minor optimizations to the parsing process
-  + Make support for interlaced streams more robust [#701340]
-  + Fix multiple slices decoding with varying slice types [#724518]
-  + Fix parsing of multiple SEI messages in single NAL units (Aurelien Zanelli)
-* Improvements to plugin elements
-  + Add download capability to vaapidecode [#733243]
-  + Add support for crop regions in VPP mode [#720730]
-  + Allow selection of a particular "display-name" for vaapisink [#722247]
-  + Fix support for headless pipelines, e.g. vaapisink display="drm" mode
-  + Fix creation of output surface pool for vaapipostproc (Simon Farnsworth)
-  + Fix vaapipostproc "deinterlace-mode" semantics (Simon Farnsworth) [#726361]
-  + Fix memory leak in vaapidecode ! {glimagesink,cluttersink} (Matthew Waters)
-  + Fix vaapidecode hang when downstream errors out (Matthew Waters) [#733897]
-
-Version 0.5.8 - 23.Jan.2014
-* Add H.264 video encoding (+Feng Yuan)
-* Add MPEG-2 video encoding (+Guangxin Xu)
-* Add initial support for GStreamer 1.3 (Matthieu Bouron)
-* Add support for H.264 Constrained Baseline profile (Feng Yuan)
-* Add support for colorbalance adjustment in vaapipostproc (Halley Zhao)
-* Add color space conversion in vaapisink (Holger Kaelberer) [#722255]
-* Fix OpenGL interop with clutter-gst and glimagesink elements (Matthieu Bouron)
-* Fix decoding of H.264 quantization matrices (+Cong Zhong) [#706406]
-* Fix robustness of H.264 decoder when packets are missing
-* Fix hang in vaapidecode on SIGINT [<Ctrl>+C] (Fen Yuan) [#720584]
-* Fix vaapisink initialization with foreign window (Holger Kaelberer) [#722244]
-* Fix Sharpening filter in vaapipostproc (Halley Zhao) [#720375]
-
-Version 0.5.7 - 21.Nov.2013
-* Add support for GStreamer 1.2 (+Victor Jaquez, Sreerenj Balachandran)
-* Add support for video processing (VA/VPP) (+Halley Zhao)
-  + Scaling and color conversion
-  + Image enhancement filters: Sharpening, Noise Reduction
-  + Advanced deinterlacing: Motion-Adaptive, Motion-Compensated
-* Fix vaapidecode pause/resume/seek capabilities (+Guangxin Xu)
-* JPEG decoder bug fixes and improvements
-  + Add support for multiscan images
-  + Improve overall performance by +12%
-  + Fix robustness and tolerance to missing packets
-  + Fix detection of image boundaries (Junfeng Xu)
-  + Fix decoding from Logitech Pro C920 cameras (Junfeng Xu)
-
-Version 0.5.6 - 29.Aug.2013
-* Add render-to-pixmap API to bypass VA/GLX in clutter-gst
-* Add initial support for video-processing APIs (+Halley Zhao)
-* Add support for video cropping and deinterlacing to the Wayland backend
-* Add "force-aspect-ratio" property to vaapisink (Simon Farnsworth)
-* Fix support for clutter-gst in GStreamer 0.10 builds
-* Fix HW accelerated rendering with SW decoded pipelines
-* Fix videotestsrc ! vaapisink pipelines (Guangxin Xu)
-* Fix memory leak of raw video uploader objects (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix decoding without a video parser element before `vaapidecde'
-* Fix regression in MPEG-2 decoder due to incomplete video cropping support
-* Fix dead-lock condition on Wayland when the end-of-stream is reached
-
-Version 0.5.5 - 15.Jul.2013
-* Allow creation of video surfaces with an explicit pixel format
-* Allocate VA/GLX capable buffers by default on X11 servers (Victor Jaquez)
-* Add support for video cropping in MPEG-2, VC-1 and H.264 codecs (+Sreerenj)
-* Fix memory leak when processing interlaced pictures
-* Fix creation of VA/GLX textures when video cropping is used
-* Fix raw image copies in vaapidownload / vaapiupload (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix MPEG-2 quantization matrices reset on new sequence headers (Cong Zhong)
-* Fix direct linking of vaapidownload element to xvimagesink (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix memory corruption in video pool implementation, e.g. for clutter-gst
-
-Version 0.5.4 - 14.Jun.2013
-* Streamline core libgstvaapi decoding library (API/ABI changes)
-* Use built-in codecparsers by default (or --disable-builtin-codecparsers)
-* Fix default Huffman tables generation (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix destruction of Wayland display resources
-* Fix explicit specification of display type to vaapisink
-* Fix memory leak in vaapiupload in GStreamer 0.10 builds (Halley Zhao)
-* Fix performance regression caused by improper use of GstTask callback
-* Fix raw decoding mode to transfer ownership of surface proxy to caller
-
-Version 0.5.3 - 18.Apr.2013
-* Add support for GStreamer 1.0.x API (+Sreerenj Balachandran)
-* Fix build on Fedora 17 (Víctor Manuel Jáquez)
-* Fix vaapidecode heuristics to detect decode timeouts
-* Fix fallback to sofware decoding if no hardware decoder is available
-* Fix regression in raw decoding mode whereby PTS or picture flags were lost
-
-Version 0.5.2 - 28.Mar.2013
-* Add support for video seek/reset (+Sreerenj Balachandran)
-* Improve MPEG-2 decoder robustness when packets are missing
-* Fix support for raw YUV buffers in vaapisink
-* Fix build on older Linux distributions with glib < 2.32
-* Fix decoding of MPEG-2 videos with height > 2800 pixels
-* Fix MPEG-2 decoding with explicit quantization matrices set (Cong Zhong)
-* Fix illegal write in vaapiupload for NV12 surfaces (Holger Kaelberer)
-
-Version 0.5.1 - 29.Jan.2013
-* Add simple decoder demo that only uses libgstvaapi
-* Fix thread-safety issues in the Wayland renderer
-* Fix VC-1 decoding bugs #692461, #692312, #692271, #692270, #692267
-* Fix decoding of VC-1 videos in AVI containers (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix H.264 parser to zero-initialize key syntax elements
-* Fix MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1 decoders to submit all decoded frames on <EOS>
-
-Version 0.5.0 - 15.Jan.2013
-* Optimize MPEG-2 and H.264 decoders
-* Use GstVideoDecoder API for vaapidecode (+Sreerenj Balachandran)
-* Add support for raw YUV buffers in vaapisink (+Halley Zhao)
-* Add support for global-alpha subpictures/overlay (+Holger Kaelberer)
-* Fix calculation of the vaapidecode time-out for a surface to get released
-
-Version 0.4.2 - 18.Dec.2012
-* Fix H.264 decoding on Cedar Trail platforms
-* Fix MPEG-4 decoding at end-of-stream (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix MPEG-4 decoding when a buffer contains multiple packets (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix memory leak in GstVaapiVideoBuffer for images and surfaces (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix symbols collision between built-in codecparsers/ and system library
-* Use GST_PLUGIN_PATH, if set, to install plugin elements (Halley Zhao)
-
-Version 0.4.1 - 27.Nov.2012
-* Add support for H.264 interlaced streams
-* Add support for Wayland 1.0 protocol (Robert Bradford)
-* Add upstream bitstream parsers library (codecparsers)
-* Fix build with the GNU gold linker
-* Fix detection of H.264 picture boundaries
-* Fix memory leak in MPEG-2 decoder for empty user-data packets
-* Fix H.264 decoder with MMCO-based reference picture marking process
-* Decode pending packets when an end-of-stream is received (+Feng Yuan)
-* Use pixel-aspect-ratio from bitstream parsers (Simon Farnsworth)
-
-Version 0.4.0 - 05.Oct.2012
-* Add support for video rotation
-* Add new video display APIs: Wayland and raw DRM for headless pipelines
-* Drop FFmpeg-based decoders, only use codecparsers-based ones
-* Only reset decoder if meaningful caps changed, e.g. size
-* Allocate the minimal number of video surfaces useful for decoding
-* Fix vaapisink to scale video down to fit the screen dimensions
-* Fix vaapidecode crash when trying to release inexistent lock (Philip Lorenz)
-
-Version 0.3.8 - 20.Sep.2012
-* Disable FFmpeg-based decoders by default
-* Add JPEG decoder (based on codecparsers)
-* Fix crash when destroying GstVaapiDisplay objects early
-* Fix GLX rendering with FBO + texture-from-pixmap (fallback for VA/GLX)
-* Fix rendering with EMGD driver when overlay mode is used
-* Fix MPEG-2 decoding on Intel Atom platforms with EMGD driver
-* Fix release of dangling proxy surfaces when decoder is reset (Philip Lorenz)
-
-Version 0.3.7 - 26.Jun.2012
-* Fix vaapidecode to report unsupported codec profiles
-* Fix MPEG-2 decoding of streams with extra slice() information
-* Map MPEG-2 compatible High profile streams to Main profile
-* Map MPEG-4 Simple Scalable profile streams to Advanced Simple (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix various MPEG-4 decoding bugs (timestamps, reference frames) (Feng Yuan)
-* Don't forcibly resize user provided X windows (Holger Kaelberer)
-* Recalculate render rect only if caps are negotiated (Holger Kaelberer)
-
-Version 0.3.6 - 02.Apr.2012
-* Add support for decoding MPEG-2 interlaced streams
-* Add support for interlaced streams with FFmpeg decoders (Holger Kaelberer)
-* Add vaapipostproc element for video postprocessing (e.g. deinterlacing)
-* Skip all H.264 Filler Data NALs
-* Fix crashes in MPEG-4 decoder (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix fallback from MPEG-2 Simple to Main profile
-* Improve decoding of misformed MPEG-2 streams (+Feng Yuan)
-* Avoid a hang in playbin2 for some MPEG-2 TS streams (Feng Yuan)
-
-Version 0.3.5 - 02.Mar.2012
-* Fix H.264 decoding when emulation prevention bytes are detected
-* Skip all H.264 Access Unit (AU) NALs (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix modification process of H.264 reference picture lists (Feng Yuan)
-* Fix MPEG-2 stream size calculation (Sreerenj Balachandran)
-* Fix MPEG-2 decoding on Intel Gen with multiple slices per MB line
-* Fix crash when downloading/uploading VA images on PowerVR (Cedar Trail)
-* Fix double buffer free issues with some VA drivers
-* Fix crash when there is no free surface available for decoding
-* Skip profiles which have no entrypoints (Halley Zhao)
-* Fix minor memory leaks in plug-in elements
-
-Version 0.3.4 - 01.Feb.2012
-* Add H.264 decoder (based on codecparsers)
-* Add workaround for qtdemux not exposing H.263 profiles (Halley Zhao)
-* Alias H.263 Baseline profile to MPEG-4:2 Simple profile (Halley Zhao)
-* Use optimized path to submit slice data buffers
-* Fix possible memory leak in MPEG-2 decoder
-* Fix vaapisink to cap window size to the maximum display size
-* Fix MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1 decoders to refcount reference surfaces properly
-
-Version 0.3.3 - 16.Jan.2012
-* Add MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1 decoders (based on codecparsers)
-* Add support for GstXOverlay::set_render_rectangle() in vaapisink
-* Fix memory leak of GL texture (Nicolas Dufresne)
-* Fix vaapisink to automatically fit video to window
-* Fix vaapiupload to only set caps on newly created buffers (Nicolas Dufresne)
-* Fix gst_vaapi_ensure_display() to honour DISPLAY environment variable
-
-Version 0.3.2 - 06.Jan.2012
-* Rename vaapiconvert element to vaapiupload
-* Fix vaapiupload from NV12 buffers
-* Fix possible leaks of VA surfaces in FFmpeg decoder
-* Fix memory leak in vaapiupload initialization function
-* Fix possible crash in vaapidecode deinitialization code
-* Add vaapidownload element to convert from VA surfaces to YUV pixels
-
-Version 0.3.1 - 16.Dec.2011
-* Fix check for supported VA images
-* Add support for partial VA image updates
-* Add support for new subtitle/overlay infrastructure (Thibault Saunier)
-* Add missing video context queries in vaapisink/vaapiconvert (Nicolas Dufresne)
-
-Version 0.3.0 - 09.Dec.2011
-* Group all plugins into the same bundle
-* Use new XOverlay API (Sreerenj Balachandran)
-* Use new GstVideoContext and GstSurfaceBuffer API (Nicolas Dufresne)
-* Fix vaapidecode sink caps if decoder is in NULL state (Sreerenj Balachandran)
-* Fix auto-plugging and downstream buffer allocation (Nicolas Dufresne)
-* Fix crash in VA display init if no VA configs were found (Nicolas Dufresne)
-
-Version 0.2.7 - 07.Dec.2011
-* Relicense plugins and tests to LGPL v2.1 (SDS)
-* Fix MPEG-2 decoding from TS & PS streams
-* Fix build with newer versions of FFmpeg
-* Fix vaapiconvert direct-rendering modes
-* Fix use of invalid data at the end-of-stream
-
-Version 0.2.6 - 14.Jun.2011
-* Fix licensing terms (LGPL v2.1)
-
-Version 0.2.5 - 20.Jul.2010
-* Fix build with older VA-API 0.29-sds
-* Fix decoding of some H.264 streams. e.g. Ice Age 2 trailer
-* Fix VA/GLX support with texture-from-pixmap and GLX version < 1.3
-
-Version 0.2.4 - 18.May.2010
-* Fix video rendering rect within an embedder window (Totem)
-* Disable GLX rendering when vaapisink uses a foreign X window
-
-Version 0.2.3 - 16.May.2010
-* Fix memory leak of encoded buffers
-* Fix decoder caps to report codec aliases
-* Fix VC-1 decoding through the playbin2 pipeline
-
-Version 0.2.2 - 14.May.2010
-* Fix packaging dependencies
-* Fix a crash in the FFmpeg decoder on close
-* Fix OpenGL texture internal format (Clutter)
-* Fix foreign window size for embedding (Totem)
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-Version 0.2.1 - 12.May.2010
-* Fix integration within the playbin2 pipeline
-* Fix vaapidecode to expose the HW supported caps only
-* Add GstXOverlay interface to vaapisink (Totem media player)
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-Version 0.2.0 - 05.May.2010
-* Relicense gst-libs/ code to LGPL v2.1+
-* Add FFmpeg/VAAPI decoder for the new `vaapidecode' element
-
-Version 0.1.2 - 30.Mar.2010
-* Add AYUV image format
-* Add compatibility with the original VA-API 0.29
-* Add OpenGL support through VA/GLX extensions or TFP+FBO fallback
-
-Version 0.1.1 - 23.Mar.2010
-* Document public API for libgstvaapi-*.so.*
-* Optimize `vaapiconvert' pipeline (direct-rendering)
-* Allow `vaapisink` to render videos in fullscreen mode
-
-Version 0.1.0 - 16.Mar.2010
-* Initial release
+This is gstreamer-vaapi 1.7.90.