gstreamer-1.20.5 gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly gst-libav gstreamer-vaapi

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

The fifth 1.20 bug-fix release (1.20.5) was released on 19 December 2022.

This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to upgrade from 1.20.x.

Highlighted bugfixes in 1.20.5

• systemclock waiting fixes for certain 32-bit platforms/libcs
• alphacombine: robustness improvements for corner case scenarios
• avfvideosrc: Report latency when doing screen capture
• d3d11videosink: various thread-safety and stability fixes
• decklink: fix performance issue when HDMI signal has been lost for a

long time

• flacparse: Fix handling of headers advertising 32 bits per sample
• mpegts: Handle when iconv doesn’t support ISO 6937 (e.g. musl libc)
• opengl: fix automatic dispmanx detection for rpi4 and fix usage of

eglCreate/DestroyImage

• opusdec: Various channel-related fixes
• textrender: event handling fixes, esp. for GAP event
• subparse: Fix non-closed tag handling
• videoscale: fix handling of unknown buffer metas
• videosink: reverse playback handling fixes
• qtmux: Prefill mode fixes, especially for raw audio
• multiudpsink: allow binding to IPv6 address
• rtspsrc: Fix usage of IPv6 connections in SETUP
• rtspsrc: Only EOS on timeout if all streams are timed out/EOS
• splitmuxsrc: fix playback stall if there are unlinked pads
• v4l2: Fix SIGSEGV on state change during format changes
• wavparse robustness fixes
• Fix static linking on macOS (opengl, vulkan)
• gstreamer-vaapi: fix headless build against mesa >= 22.3.0
• GStreamer Editing Services library: Fix build with tools disabled
• webrtc example/demo fixes
• unit test fixes for aesdec and rtpjitterbuffer
• Cerbero: Fix ios cross-compile with cmake on M1; some recipe updates

and other build fixes

• Binary packages: pkg-config file fixes for various recipes (ffmpeg,

taglib, gstreamer)

• Binary packages: Enable high bitdepth support for libvpx (VP8/VP9

encoding/decoding)

• Binary packages: ship aes plugin
• Miscellaneous bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and

reliability improvements

• Performance improvements

gstreamer

• allocator: Copy allocator name in gst_allocator_register()
• miniobject: support higher refcount values
• pads: Fix non-serialized sticky event push, e.g. instant change rate

events

• padtemplate: Fix annotations
• systemclock: Use futex_time64 syscall on x32 and other platforms

that always…

• Fix build of 1.20 branch with Meson 0.64.1 for those who have hotdoc

installed on their system.

• meson: fix check for pthread_setname_np()
• -Wimplicit-function-declaration in pthread_setname_np check (missing

_GNU_SOURCE)

• gst-inspect: Don’t leak list

Core Elements

• concat: Properly propagate EOS seqnum
• fakesrc: avoid time overflow with datarate

gst-plugins-base

• audioconvert, audioresample, audiofilter: fix divide by 0 for input

buffer without caps

• cdparanoia: Ignore compiler warning coming from the cdparanoia

header

• oggdemux, parsebin: More leak fixes
• opengl: fix automatic dispmanx detection for rpi4
• opengl: Fix usage of eglCreate/DestroyImage
• opengl: Fix static linking on macOS
• opusdec: Various channel-related fixes
• textrender: Negotiate caps on a GAP event if none were negotiated

yet

• textrender: Don’t blindly forward all events and don’t blindly

forward all events

• timeoverlay: fix pad leak
• oggdemux: Don’t leak incoming EOS event
• subparse: Fix non-closed tag handling.
• videodecoder: Only post latency message if it changed
• videoscale: buffer meta handling fixes (NULL-terminate array of

valid meta tags)

• videosink: Don’t return unknown end-time from get_times()
• Bump core requirement in 1.20 branch to 1.20.4

Tools

• gst-play: Don’t leak the stream collection

gst-plugins-good

• flacparse: Fix handling of headers advertising 32bps
• qt5: deactivate context if fill_info fails
• qt5: initialize GError properly in gst_qt_get_gl_wrapcontext()
• qtdemux: check return value from gst_structure_get in PIFF box
• qtdemux: use unsigned int types to store result of QT_UINT32
• qtmux: Prefill mode fixes
• oss4: Fix debug category initialization
• multiudpsink: allow binding to IPv6 address
• rtpjitterbuffer tests: Cast drop-messages-interval type properly

(fixing it on 32-bit architectures)

• rtspsrc: fix seek event leaks
• rtspsrc: Don’t replace 404 errors with “no auth protocol found”
• rtspsrc: Only EOS on timeout if all streams are timed out/EOS
• rtspsrc: Fix usage of IPv6 connections in SETUP
• splitmuxsrc: don’t queue data on unlinked pads
• v4l2: Fix SIGSEGV on ‘change state’ during ‘format change’
• v4l2videodec: Fix activation of internal pool
• wavparse: Avoid occasional crash due to referencing freed buffer.
• wavparse: Fix crash that occurs in push mode when header chunks are

corrupted in certain ways.

gst-plugins-bad

• aesdec: Fix padding removal for per-buffer-padding=FALSE
• aesdec test failing in gst-plugins-bad
• alphacombine: Add missing query handler for gaps
• avfdeviceprovider: do not leak the properties
• avfvideosrc: Report latency when doing screen capture
• d3d11screencapturesrc: Specify PAR 1/1 to template caps
• d3d11videosink: Fixing focus lost on desktop layout change
• d3d11videosink: Call ShowWindow() from window thread
• d3d11videosink: Fix deadlock when parent window is busy
• d3d11videosink: Always clear back buffer on resize
• decklink: reset calculation of time_mapping to fix clipping HDMI

video

• directshow: Fix build error with glib 2.75 and newer
• dvbsubenc: Forward GAP events as-is if we wouldn’t produce an end

packet and…

• dvbsubenc: Write Display Definition Segment if a non-default

width/height is used

• h265decoder: Do not abort when failed to prepare ref pic set
• h264parser: Fix a typo in pred_weight_table parsing.
• mediafoundation, d3d11: Fix memory leak and make leak tracer happy
• mpegts: Handle when iconv doesn’t support ISO 6937 (e.g. musl libc)
• mpegts: Check continuity counter on section streams
• mpegts: Revert “mpegtspacketizer: memcmp potentially seen_before

data”

• mpegtspacketizer: memcmp potentially seen_before data
• mpegtsdemux: Always clear packetizer on DISCONT push mode
• srt: various fixes - improve stats and error handling
• rtmp2: Improve error messages
• rtmp2sink: Correctly return GST_FLOW_ERROR on error
• vulkan: Fix static linking on macOS
• webrtcbin: also add rtcp-fb ccm fir for video mlines by default
• webrtc/nice: fix small leak of split strings

gst-plugins-ugly

• No changes

gst-libav

• avdec_h265: Fix endless renegotiation with alternate interlacing
• avviddec: Avoid flushing on framerate changes

gstreamer-vaapi

• vaapi: prefix internal USE_X11 define to fix build with mesa 22.3.0
• vaapi: libs: context: use queried value for attrib
• gstreamer-vaapi cannot be built without X11 with recent mesa

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit d78e102e149d7843e4ccba7e72258f0d4a7e31ef