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@@ -1,2 +1,64 @@ -This is GStreamer 1.5.91 +This is GStreamer 1.6.0 + +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! + +This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new +features, bug fixes and other improvements. + +See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the full list of +changes. + +Highlights + +- 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 |