RELEASE: GStreamer VA-API Plugins 0.5.9

gstreamer-vaapi is a collection of GStreamer plugins and helper libraries that allow hardware accelerated video decoding, video encoding and video processing through VA-API. Complete support depends on the underlying hardware. However, video decoding from JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4:2, H.264 AVC, H.264 MVC, VC-1 and VP8 is supported; and video encoding in MPEG-2, H.264 AVC and H.264 MVC format is supported. Renderers are available for X11, GLX, Wayland and raw DRM for headless pipelines. == Source Code == * Git repository: <http://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi> * Source tarballs: <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/gstreamer-vaapi/> 14f476f834a15422ecfa6a472df1b18ac2a0e50f gstreamer-vaapi-0.5.9.tar.bz2 == Changes == * Major changes: - Add VP8 decoder - Add H.264 MVC decoder and encoder - Add support for GStreamer 1.4.0 / 1.5-git (1.6) - Fix support for Firefox >= 30 when built with GStreamer 1.0 APIs * Other changes of interest: - Add download capability to vaapidecode - Add support for crop regions in VPP mode for vaapipostproc - Allow selection of a particular "display-name" for vaapisink - Many improvements to the H.264 AVC decoder for better conformance and robustness - Fix MPEG-4:2 decoder hang on skipped frames - Fix MPEG-2 decoder to propagate presentation timestamps from demuxer - Fix support for headless pipelines, e.g. vaapisink display="drm" mode - Fix vaapipostproc "deinterlace-mode" semantics - Fix memory leak in vaapidecode ! {glimagesink, cluttersink} use cases - Fix vaapidecode hang when downstream elements error out (and around 50+ bug reports fixed) * GStreamer support corner: - GStreamer >= 1.2-git is the a minimal requirement from now on - GStreamer 1.0.x is deprecated, and will be obsoleted in a future release - GStreamer 0.10.x is obsolete, and will be removed in a future release == Reporting Bugs == * Bugs can be reported in the GNOME Bugzilla system at: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gstreamer-vaapi> >From the main page, new bugs can be reported through New -> Other -> gstreamer-vaapi product. == Contributors == This release was brought to you by: Cong Zhong, Fabrice Bellet, Gwenole Beauchesne, Halley Zhao, Holger Kaelberer, Jan Schmidt, Lionel Landwerlin, Matthew Waters, Matthieu Bouron, Simon Farnsworth, Sreerenj Balachandran, Xiaowei Li. Thanks! Regards, -- Gwenole Beauchesne Intel Corporation SAS / 2 rue de Paris, 92196 Meudon Cedex, France Registration Number (RCS): Nanterre B 302 456 199