RELEASE
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This is GStreamer gst-plugins-base 1.18.0.
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The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
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As always, this release is again packed with new features, bug fixes and
other improvements.
The 1.18 release series adds new features on top of the 1.16 series and is
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part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
framework.
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Full release notes can be found at:
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https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.18/
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Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
shortly after the release.
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This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction
with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience.
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- gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins
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- gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional
media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio,
video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc.
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- gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred
license
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- gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose
problems for distributors
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- gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made
their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one
reason or another. Many of these are are production quality
elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit
tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing
we expect yet.
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- gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is
where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders
for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc.
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- gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using
VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware.
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- gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for
embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax
implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi.
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- gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP
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- gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
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==== Download ====
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You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
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The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/
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==== Homepage ====
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The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
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==== Support and Bugs ====
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We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org
for bug reports and feature requests:
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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/
for more details.
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For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
==== Developers ====
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GStreamer source code repositories can be found on GitLab on freedesktop.org:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
and can also be cloned from there and this is also where you can submit
Merge Requests or file issues for bugs or feature requests.
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Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
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subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel