gstreamer-1.22.0 gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly gst-libav gstreamer-vaapi

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes

Highlights

• AV1 video codec support improvements
• New HLS, DASH and Microsoft Smooth Streaming adaptive streaming clients
• Qt6 support for rendering video inside a QML scene
• Minimal builds optimised for binary size, including only the individual elements needed
• Playbin3, Decodebin3, UriDecodebin3, Parsebin enhancements and stabilisation
• WebRTC simulcast support and support for Google Congestion Control
• WebRTC-based media server ingestion/egress (WHIP/WHEP) support
• New easy to use batteries-included WebRTC sender plugin
• Easy RTP sender timestamp reconstruction for RTP and RTSP
• ONVIF timed metadata support
• New fragmented MP4 muxer and non-fragmented MP4 muxer
• New plugins for Amazon AWS storage and audio transcription services
• New gtk4paintablesink and gtkwaylandsink renderers
• New videocolorscale element that can convert and scale in one go for better performance
• High bit-depth video improvements
• Touchscreen event support in navigation API
• Rust plugins now shipped in macOS and Windows/MSVC binary packages
• H.264/H.265 timestamp correction elements for PTS/DTS reconstruction before muxers
• Improved design for DMA buffer sharing and modifier handling for hardware-accelerated video decoders/encoders/filters and capturing/rendering on Linux
• Video4Linux2 hardware accelerated decoder improvements
• CUDA integration and Direct3D11 integration and plugin improvements
• New H.264 / AVC, H.265 / HEVC and AV1 hardware-accelerated video encoders for AMD GPUs using the Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK
• applemedia: H.265 / HEVC video encoding + decoding support
• androidmedia: H.265 / HEVC video encoding support
• New “force-live” property for audiomixer, compositor, glvideomixer, d3d11compositor etc.
• Lots of new plugins, features, performance improvements and bug fixes

There are many more details in the NEWS file in the tarballs.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Plugin and library moves

• The xingmux plugin has been moved from gst-plugins-ugly into gst-plugins-good.

• The various Windows directshow plugins in gst-plugins-bad have been unified into a single directshow plugin.

Plugin removals

• The dxgiscreencapsrc element has been removed, use d3d11screencapturesrc instead

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

50fd4304ca Update to Text-BibTeX-0.89 (Perl Module).
9dfe7f236f Update to doxyqml-0.5.2 (Python Module).
3389fc3151 Update gstreamer stack.