gstreamer-1.6.0, gst-plugins-base-1.6.0, gst-plugins-good-1.6.0, gst-plugins-bad-1.6.0, gst-plugins-ugly-1.6.0, and gst-libav-1.6.0

[Fernando de Oliveira]

​http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-1.6.0.tar.xz 52ef885647afef11c8b7645a9afefe04aa09e8971c4b932e7717872ab8a30fcc

​http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-1.6.0.tar.xz 314fd1b707f65caf8eb6164d9422fc51e2b220a890ccd2de6ec03a2883d77231

​http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-1.6.0.tar.xz a0915639595305e48884656e22b16fda7c6892aa02cdb3eb43e23dab6e6b81fa

​http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad-1.6.0.tar.xz d8ff26128d4ecd2ffeb28e14843808d2d971b09056b7cee6f08afcae01fc0f49

​http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-1.6.0.tar.xz 91178dc0d687a83c083190a905681d3a66901374b1004fc52cd300b7802e5f06

​http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/gst-libav-1.6.0.tar.xz 6cca6cf73182a882768ef0c860af88c2fd2c77e2c81ce464a998ab4e6baa604c

​http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/2015-September/054726.html

RELEASE: GStreamer Core, Plugins, RTSP Server, Editing Services, Python,
Validate 1.6.0 stable release
Sebastian Dröge sebastian at centricular.com
Fri Sep 25 15:05:14 PDT 2015

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.

Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided
separately by the GStreamer project.
We'll send follow-up mails to this mail once they are available.


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

-- 
Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com

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