gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly gst-libav gst-plugins-rs-gstreamer (libgstgtk4) 1.26.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Rahul Chandra]

Built and runs fine for me!

[Douglas R. Reno]

Here are the highlights:

Highlights:

    H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) codec support
    Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) support
    Closed captions: H.264/H.265 extractor/inserter, cea708overlay, cea708mux, 
tttocea708 and more
    New hlscmafsink, hlssink3, and hlsmultivariantsink; HLS/DASH client and dashsink 
improvements
    New AWS and Speechmatics transcription, translation and TTS services elements, plus 
translationbin
    Splitmux lazy loading and dynamic fragment addition support
    Matroska: H.266 video and rotation tag support, defined latency muxing
    MPEG-TS: support for H.266, JPEG XS, AV1, VP9 codecs and SMPTE ST-2038 and ID3 meta; 
mpegtslivesrc
    ISO MP4: support for H.266, Hap, Lagarith lossless codecs; raw video support; 
rotation tags
    SMPTE 2038 ancillary data streams support
    JPEG XS image codec support
    Analytics: New TensorMeta; N-to-N relationships; Mtd to carry segmentation masks
    ONVIF metadata extractor and conversion to/from relation metas
    New originalbuffer element that can restore buffers again after transformation steps 
for analytics
    Improved Python bindings for analytics API
    Lots of Vulkan integration and Vulkan Video decoder/encoder improvements
    OpenGL integration improvements, esp. in glcolorconvert, gldownload, glupload
    Qt5/Qt6 QML GL sinks now support direct DMABuf import from hardware decoders
    CUDA: New compositor, Jetson NVMM memory support, stream-ordered allocator
    NVCODEC AV1 video encoder element, and nvdsdewarp
    New Direct3D12 integration support library
    New d3d12swapchainsink and d3d12deinterlace elements and D3D12 sink/source for zero-
copy IPC
    Decklink HDR support (PQ + HLG) and frame scheduling enhancements
    AJA capture source clock handling and signal loss recovery improvements
    RTP and RTSP: New rtpbin sync modes, client-side MIKEY support in rtspsrc
    New Rust rtpbin2, rtprecv, rtpsend, and many new Rust RTP payloaders and 
depayloaders
    webrtcbin support for basic rollbacks and other improvements
    webrtcsink: support for more encoders, SDP munging, and a built-in web/signalling 
server
    webrtcsrc/sink: support for uncompressed audio/video and NTP & PTP clock signalling 
and synchronization
    rtmp2: server authentication improvements incl. Limelight CDN (llnw) authentication
    New Microsoft WebView2 based web browser source element
    The GTK3 plugin has gained support for OpenGL/WGL on Windows
    Many GTK4 paintable sink improvements
    GstPlay: id-based stream selection and message API improvements
    Real-time pipeline visualization in a browser using a new dots tracer and viewer
    New tracers for tracking memory usage, pad push timings, and buffer flow as pcap 
files
    VA hardware-acclerated H.266/VVC decoder, VP8 and JPEG encoders, VP9/VP8 alpha \
decodebins
    Video4Linux2 elements support DMA_DRM caps negotiation now
    V4L2 stateless decoders implement inter-frame resolution changes for AV1 and VP9
    Editing services: support for reverse playback and audio channel reordering
    New QUIC-based elements for working with raw QUIC streams, RTP-over-QUIC (RoQ) and 
WebTransport
    Apple AAC audio encoder and multi-channel support for the Apple audio decoders
    cerbero: Python bindings and introspection support; improved Windows installer based 
on WiX5
    Lots of new plugins, features, performance improvements and bug fixes

[Douglas R. Reno]

More comprehensive changes can be found at ​https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/ - this was a huge release!

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at a6a6aeea058678f688b0f7a8ea4c31b17f870d1c