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GSTREAMER 1.16 RELEASE NOTES
GStreamer 1.16 has not been released yet. It is scheduled for release in
April 2019.
1.15.x is the unstable development version that is being developed in
the git master branch and which will eventually result in 1.16.
1.16 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 1.14, 1.12, 1.10, 1.8,
1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0 release series.
See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ for the latest
version of this document.
_Last updated: Wednesday 10 April 2019, 00:50 UTC (log)_
Introduction
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!
As always, this release is again packed with many new features, bug
fixes and other improvements.
Highlights
- GStreamer WebRTC stack gained support for data channels for
peer-to-peer communication based on SCTP, BUNDLE support, as well as
support for multiple TURN servers.
- AV1 video codec support for Matroska and QuickTime/MP4 containers
and more configuration options and supported input formats for the
AOMedia AV1 encoder
- Support for Closed Captions and other Ancillary Data in video
- Support for planar (non-interleaved) raw audio
- GstVideoAggregator, compositor and OpenGL mixer elements are now in
-base
- New alternate fields interlace mode where each buffer carries a
single field
- WebM and Matroska ContentEncryption support in the Matroska demuxer
- new WebKit WPE-based web browser source element
- Video4Linux: HEVC encoding and decoding, JPEG encoding, and improved
dmabuf import/export
- Hardware-accelerated Nvidia video decoder gained support for VP8/VP9
decoding, whilst the encoder gained support for H.265/HEVC encoding.
- Many improvements to the Intel Media SDK based hardware-accelerated
video decoder and encoder plugin (msdk): dmabuf import/export for
zero-copy integration with other components; VP9 decoding; 10-bit
HEVC encoding; video post-processing (vpp) support including
deinterlacing; and the video decoder now handles dynamic resolution
changes.
- The ASS/SSA subtitle overlay renderer can now handle multiple
subtitles that overlap in time and will show them on screen
simultaneously
- The Meson build is now feature-complete (*) and it is now the
recommended build system on all platforms. The Autotools build is
scheduled to be removed in the next cycle.
- The GStreamer Rust bindings and Rust plugins module are now
officially part of upstream GStreamer.
- Many performance improvements
Major new features and changes
Noteworthy new API
- GstAggregator has a new "min-upstream-latency" property that forces
a minimum aggregate latency for the input branches of an aggregator.
This is useful for dynamic pipelines where branches with a higher
latency might be added later after the pipeline is already up and
running and where a change in the latency would be disruptive. This
only applies to the case where at least one of the input branches is
live though, it won’t force the aggregator into live mode in the
absence of any live inputs.
- GstBaseSink gained a "processing-deadline" property and
setter/getter API to configure a processing deadline for live
pipelines. The processing deadline is the acceptable amount of time
to process the media in a live pipeline before it reaches the sink.
This is on top of the systemic latency that is normally reported by
the latency query. This defaults to 20ms and should make pipelines
such as v4l2src ! xvimagesink not claim that all frames are late in
the QoS events. Ideally, this should replace the "max-lateness"
property for most applications.
- RTCP Extended Reports (XR) parsing according to RFC 3611:
Loss/Duplicate RLE, Packet Receipt Times, Receiver Reference Time,
Delay since the last Receiver (DLRR), Statistics Summary, and VoIP
Metrics reports. This only provides the ability to parse such
packets, generation of XR packets is not supported yet and XR
packets are not automatically parsed by rtpbin / rtpsession but must
be actively handled by the application.
- a new mode for interlaced video was added where each buffer carries
a single field of interlaced video, with buffer flags indicating
whether the field is the top field or bottom field. Top and bottom
fields are expected to alternate in this mode. Caps for this
interlace mode must also carry a format:Interlaced caps feature to
ensure backwards compatibility.
- The video library has gained support for three new raw pixel
formats:
- Y410: packed 4:4:4 YUV, 10 bits per channel
- Y210: packed 4:2:2 YUV, 10 bits per channel
- NV12_10LE40: fully-packed 10-bit variant of NV12_10LE32,
i.e. without the padding bits
- GstRTPSourceMeta is a new meta that can be used to transport
information about the origin of depayloaded or decoded RTP buffers,
e.g. when mixing audio from multiple sources into a single stream. A
new "source-info" property on the RTP depayloader base class
determines whether depayloaders should put this meta on outgoing
buffers. Similarly, the same property on RTP payloaders determines
whether they should use the information from this meta to construct
the CSRCs list on outgoing RTP buffers.
- gst_sdp_message_from_text() is a convenience constructor to parse
SDPs from a string which is particularly useful for language
bindings.
Support for Planar (Non-Interleaved) Raw Audio
Raw audio samples are usually passed around in interleaved form in
GStreamer, which means that if there are multiple audio channels the
samples for each channel are interleaved in memory, e.g.
|LEFT|RIGHT|LEFT|RIGHT|LEFT|RIGHT| for stereo audio. A non-interleaved
or planar arrangement in memory would look like
|LEFT|LEFT|LEFT|RIGHT|RIGHT|RIGHT| instead, possibly with
|LEFT|LEFT|LEFT| and |RIGHT|RIGHT|RIGHT| residing in separate memory
chunks or separated by some padding.
GStreamer has always had signalling for non-interleaved audio since
version 1.0, but it was never actually properly implemented in any
elements. audioconvert would advertise support for it, but wasn’t
actually able to handle it correctly.
With this release we now have full support for non-interleaved audio as
well, which means more efficient integration with external APIs that
handle audio this way, but also more efficient processing of certain
operations like interleaving multiple 1-channel streams into a
multi-channel stream which can be done without memory copies now.
New API to support this has been added to the GStreamer Audio support
library: There is now a new GstAudioMeta which describes how data is
laid out inside the buffer, and buffers with non-interleaved audio must
always carry this meta. To access the non-interleaved audio samples you
must map such buffers with gst_audio_buffer_map() which works much like
gst_buffer_map() or gst_video_frame_map() in that it will populate a
little GstAudioBuffer helper structure passed to it with the number of
samples, the number of planes and pointers to the start of each plane in
memory. This function can also be used to map interleaved audio buffers
in which case there will be only one plane of interleaved samples.
Of course support for this has also been implemented in the various
audio helper and conversion APIs, base classes, and in elements such as
audioconvert, audioresample, audiotestsrc, audiorate.
Support for Closed Captions and Other Ancillary Data in Video
The video support library has gained support for detecting and
extracting Ancillary Data from videos as per the SMPTE S291M
specification, including:
- a VBI (Vertical Blanking Interval) parser that can detect and
extract Ancillary Data from Vertical Blanking Interval lines of
component signals. This is currently supported for videos in v210
and UYVY format.
- a new GstMeta for closed captions: GstVideoCaptionMeta. This
supports the two types of closed captions, CEA-608 and CEA-708,
along with the four different ways they can be transported (other
systems are a superset of those).
- a VBI (Vertical Blanking Interval) encoder for writing ancillary
data to the Vertical Blanking Interval lines of component signals.
The new closedcaption plugin in gst-plugins-bad then makes use of all
this new infrastructure and provides the following elements:
- cccombiner: a closed caption combiner that takes a closed captions
stream and another stream and adds the closed captions as
GstVideoCaptionMeta to the buffers of the other stream.
- ccextractor: a closed caption extractor which will take
GstVideoCaptionMeta from input buffers and output them as a separate
closed captions stream.
- ccconverter: a closed caption converter that can convert between
different formats
- line21decoder: extract line21 closed captions from SD video streams
- cc708overlay: decodes CEA 608/708 captions and overlays them on
video
Additionally, the following elements have also gained Closed Caption
support:
- qtdemux and qtmux support CEA 608/708 Closed Caption tracks
- mpegvideoparse extracts Closed Captions from MPEG-2 video streams
- decklinkvideosink can output closed captions and decklinkvideosrc
can extract closed captions
- playbin and playbin3 learned how to autoplug CEA 608/708 CC overlay
elements
- the externally maintained ajavideosrc element for AJA capture cards
has support for extracting closed captions
The rsclosedcaption plugin in the Rust plugins collection includes a
MacCaption (MCC) file parser and encoder.
New Elements
- overlaycomposition: New element that allows applications to draw
GstVideoOverlayCompositions on a stream. The element will emit the
"draw" signal for each video buffer, and the application then
generates an overlay for that frame (or not). This is much more
performant than e.g. cairooverlay for many use cases, e.g. because
pixel format conversions can be avoided or the blitting of the
overlay can be delegated to downstream elements (such as
gloverlaycompositor). It’s particularly useful for cases where only
a small section of the video frame should be drawn on.
- gloverlaycompositor: New OpenGL-based compositor element that
flattens any overlays from GstVideoOverlayCompositionMetas into the
video stream. This element is also always part of glimagesink.
- glalpha: New element that adds an alpha channel to a video stream.
The values of the alpha channel can either be set to a constant or
can be dynamically calculated via chroma keying. It is similar to
the existing alpha element but based on OpenGL. Calculations are
done in floating point so results may not be identical to the output
of the existing alpha element.
- rtpfunnel funnels together RTP streams into a single session. Use
cases include multiplexing and bundle. webrtcbin uses it to
implement BUNDLE support.
- testsrcbin is a source element that provides an audio and/or video
stream and also announces them using the recently-introduced
GstStream API. This is useful for testing elements such as playbin3
or uridecodebin3 etc.
- New closed caption elements: cccombiner, ccextractor, ccconverter,
line21decoder and cc708overlay (see above)
- wpesrc: new source element acting as a Web Browser based on WebKit
WPE
- Two new OpenCV-based elements: cameracalibrate and cameraundistort
that can communicate to figure out distortion correction parameters
for a camera and correct for the distortion.
- New sctp plugin based on usrsctp with sctpenc and sctpdec elements.
These elements are used inside webrtcbin for implementing data
channels.
New element features and additions
- playbin3, playbin and playsink have gained a new "text-offset"
property to adjust the positioning of the selected subtitle stream
vis-a-vis the audio and video streams. This uses subtitleoverlay’s
new "subtitle-ts-offset" property. GstPlayer has gained matching API
for this, namely gst_player_get_text_video_offset().
- playbin3 buffering improvements: in network playback scenarios there
may be multiple inputs to decodebin3, and buffering will be done
before decodebin3 using queue2 or downloadbuffer elements inside
urisourcebin. Since this is before any parsers or demuxers there may
not be any bitrate information available for the various streams, so
it was difficult to configure the buffering there smartly within
global constraints. This was improved now: The queue2 elements
inside urisourcebin will now use the new bitrate query to figure out
a bitrate estimate for the stream if no bitrate was provided by
upstream, and urisourcebin will use the bitrates of the individual
queues to distribute the globally-set "buffer-size" budget in bytes
to the various queues. urisourcebin also gained "low-watermark" and
"high-watermark" properties which will be proxied to the internal
queues, as well as a read-only "statistics" property which allows
querying of the minimum/maximum/average byte and time levels of the
queues inside the urisourcebin in question.
- splitmuxsink has gained a couple of new features:
- new "async-finalize" mode: This mode is useful for muxers or
outputs that can take a long time to finalize a file. Instead of
blocking the whole upstream pipeline while the muxer is doing
its stuff, we can unlink it and spawn a new muxer + sink
combination to continue running normally. This requires us to
receive the muxer and sink (if needed) as factories via the new
"muxer-factory" and "sink-factory" properties, optionally
accompanied by their respective properties structures (set via
the new "muxer-properties" and "sink-properties" properties).
There are also new "muxer-added" and "sink-added" signals in
case custom code has to be called for them to configure them.
- "split-at-running-time" action signal: When called by the user,
this action signal ends the current file (and starts a new one)
as soon as the given running time is reached. If called multiple
times, running times are queued up and processed in the order
they were given.
- "split-after" action signal to finish outputting the current GOP
to the current file and then start a new file as soon as the GOP
is finished and a new GOP is opened (unlike the existing
"split-now" which immediately finishes the current file and
writes the current GOP into the next newly-started file).
- "reset-muxer" property: when unset, the muxer is reset using
flush events instead of setting its state to NULL and back. This
means the muxer can keep state across resets, e.g. mpegtsmux
will keep the continuity counter continuous across segments as
required by hlssink2.
- qtdemux gained PIFF track encryption box support in addition to the
already-existing PIFF sample encryption support, and also allows
applications to select which encryption system to use via a
"drm-preferred-decryption-system-id" context in case there are
multiple options.
- qtmux: the "start-gap-threshold" property determines now whether an
edit list will be created to account for small gaps or offsets at
the beginning of a stream in case the start timestamps of tracks
don’t line up perfectly. Previously the threshold was hard-coded to
1% of the (video) frame duration, now it is 0 by default (so edit
list will be created even for small differences), but fully
configurable.
- rtpjitterbuffer has improved end-of-stream handling
- rtpmp4vpay will be prefered over rtpmp4gpay for MPEG-4 video in
autoplugging scenarios now
- rtspsrc now allows applications to send RTSP SET_PARAMETER and
GET_PARAMETER requests using action signals.
- rtspsrc has a small (100ms) configurable teardown delay by default
to try and make sure an RTSP TEARDOWN request gets sent out when the
source element shuts down. This will block the downward PAUSED to
READY state change for a short time, but can be disabled where it’s
a problem. Some servers only allow a limited number of concurrent
clients, so if no proper TEARDOWN is sent new clients may have
problems connecting to the server for a while.
- souphttpsrc behaves better with low bitrate streams now. Before it
would increase the read block size too quickly which could lead to
it not reading any data from the socket for a very long time with
low bitrate streams that are output live downstream. This could lead
to servers kicking off the client.
- filesink: do internal buffering to avoid performance regression with
small writes since we bypass libc buffering by using writev()
instead of fwrite()
- identity: add "eos-after" property and fix "error-after" property
when the element is reused
- input-selector: lets context queries pass through, so that
e.g. upstream OpenGL elements can use contexts and displays
advertised by downstream elements
- queue2: avoid ping-pong between 0% and 100% buffering messages if
upstream is pushing buffers larger than one of its limits, plus
performance optimisations
- opusdec: new "phase-inversion" property to control phase inversion.
When enabled, this will slightly increase stereo quality, but
produces a stream that when downmixed to mono will suffer audio
distortions.
- The x265enc HEVC encoder also exposes a "key-int-max" property to
configure the maximum allowed GOP size now.
- decklinkvideosink has seen stability improvements for long-running
pipelines (potential crash due to overflow of leaked clock refcount)
and clock-slaving improvements when performing flushing seeks
(causing stalls in the output timeline), pausing and/or buffering.
- srtpdec, srtpenc: add support for MKIs which allow multiple keys to
be used with a single SRTP stream
- The srt Secure Reliable Transport plugin has integrated server and
client elements srt{client,server}{src,sink} into one (srtsrc and
srtsink), since SRT connection mode can be changed by uri
parameters.
- h264parse and h265parse will handle SEI recovery point messages and
mark recovery points as keyframes as well (in addition to IDR
frames)
- webrtcbin: "add-turn-server" action signal to pass multiple ICE
relays (TURN servers).
- The removesilence element has received various new features and
properties, such as a "threshold" property, detecting silence only
after minimum silence time/buffers, a "silent" property to control
bus message notifications as well as a "squash" property.
- AOMedia AV1 decoder gained support for 10/12bit decoding whilst the
AV1 encoder supports more image formats and subsamplings now and
acquired support for rate control and profile related configuration.
- The Fraunhofer fdkaac plugin can now be built against the 2.0.0
version API and has improved multichannel support
- kmssink now supports unpadded 24-bit RGB and can configure mode
setting from video info, which enables display of multi-planar
formats such as I420 or NV12 with modesetting. It has also gained a
number of new properties: The "restore-crtc" property does what it
says on the tin and is enabled by default. "plane-properties" and
"connector-properties" can be used to pass custom properties to the
DRM.
- waylandsink has a "fullscreen" property now.
Plugin and library moves
- The stereo element was moved from -bad into the existing audiofx
plugin in -good. If you get duplicate type registration warnings
when upgrading, check that you don’t have a stale stereoplugin lying
about somewhere.
GstVideoAggregator, compositor, and OpenGL mixer elements moved from -bad to -base
GstVideoAggregator is a new base class for raw video mixers and muxers
and is based on GstAggregator. It provides defined-latency mixing of raw
video inputs and ensures that the pipeline won’t stall even if one of
the input streams stops producing data.
As part of the move to stabilise the API there were some last-minute API
changes and clean-ups, but those should mostly affect internal elements.
Most notably, the "ignore-eos" pad property was renamed to
"repeat-after-eos" and the conversion code was moved to a
GstVideoAggregatorConvertPad subclass to avoid code duplication, make
things less awkward for subclasses like the OpenGL-based video mixer,
and make the API more consistent with the audio aggregator API.
It is used by the compositor element, which is a replacement for
‘videomixer’ which did not handle live inputs very well. compositor
should behave much better in that respect and generally behave as one
would expected in most scenarios.
The compositor element has gained support for per-pad blending mode
operators (SOURCE, OVER, ADD) which determines what operator to use for
blending this pad over the previous ones. This can be used to implement
crossfading and the available operators can be extended in the future as
needed.
A number of OpenGL-based video mixer elements (glvideomixer, glmixerbin,
glvideomixerelement, glstereomix, glmosaic) which are built on top of
GstVideoAggregator have also been moved from -bad to -base now. These
elements have been merged into the existing OpenGL plugin, so if you get
duplicate type registration warnings when upgrading, check that you
don’t have a stale openglmixers plugin lying about somewhere.
Plugin removals
The following plugins have been removed from gst-plugins-bad:
- The experimental daala plugin has been removed, since it’s not so
useful now that all effort is focused on AV1 instead, and it had to
be enabled explicitly with --enable-experimental anyway.
- The spc plugin has been removed. It has been replaced by the gme
plugin.
- The acmmp3dec and acmenc plugins for Windows have been removed. ACM
is an ancient legacy API and there was no point in keeping the
plugins around for a licensed MP3 decoder now that the MP3 patents
have expired and we have a decoder in -good. We also didn’t ship
these in our cerbero-built Windows packages, so it’s unlikely that
they’ll be missed.
Miscellaneous API additions
- GstBitwriter: new generic bit writer API to complement the existing
bit reader
- gst_buffer_new_wrapped_bytes() creates a wrap buffer from a GBytes
- gst_caps_set_features_simple() sets a caps feature on all the
structures of a GstCaps
- New GST_QUERY_BITRATE query: This allows determining from downstream
what the expected bitrate of a stream may be which is useful in
queue2 for setting time based limits when upstream does not provide
timing information. tsdemux, qtdemux and matroskademux have basic
support for this query on their sink pads.
- elements: there is a new “Hardware” class specifier. Elements
interacting with hardware devices should specify this classifier in
their element factory class metadata. This is useful to advertise as
one might need to put such elements into READY state to test if the
hardware is present in the system for example.
- protection: Add a new definition for unspecified system protection,
GST_PROTECTION_UNSPECIFIED_SYSTEM_ID
- take functions for various mini objects that didn’t have them yet:
gst_query_take(), gst_message_take(), gst_tag_list_take(),
gst_buffer_list_take(). Unlike the various _replace() functions
_take() does not increase the reference count but takes ownership of
the mini object passed.
- clear functions for various mini object types and GstObject which
unrefs the object or mini object (if non-NULL) and sets the variable
pointed to to NULL: gst_clear_structure(), gst_clear_tag_list(),
gst_clear_query(), gst_clear_message(), gst_clear_event(),
gst_clear_caps(), gst_clear_buffer_list(), gst_clear_buffer(),
gst_clear_mini_object(), gst_clear_object()
- miniobject: new API gst_mini_object_add_parent() and
gst_mini_object_remove_parent() to set parent pointers on mini
objects to ensure correct writability: Every container of
miniobjects now needs to store itself as parent in the child object,
and remove itself again later. A mini object is then only writable
if there is at most one parent, that parent is writable itself, and
the reference count of the mini object is 1. GstBuffer (for
memories), GstBufferList (for buffers), GstSample (for caps, buffer,
bufferlist), and GstVideoOverlayComposition were updated
accordingly. Without this it was possible to have e.g. a buffer list
with a refcount of 2 used in two places at once that both modify the
same buffer with refcount 1 at the same time wrongly thinking it is
writable even though it’s really not.
- poll: add API to watch for POLLPRI and stop treating POLLPRI as a
read. This is useful to wait for video4linux events which are
signalled via POLLPRI.
- sample: new API to update the contents of a GstSample and make it
writable: gst_sample_set_buffer(), gst_sample_set_caps(),
gst_sample_set_segment(), gst_sample_set_info(), plus
gst_sample_is_writable() and gst_sample_make_writable(). This makes
it possible to reuse a sample object and avoid unnecessary memory
allocations, for example in appsink.
- ClockIDs now keep a weak reference to underlying clock to avoid
crashes in basesink in corner cases where a clock goes away while
the ClockID is still in use, plus some new API
(gst_clock_id_get_clock(), gst_clock_id_uses_clock()) to check the
clock a ClockID is linked to.
- The GstCheck unit test library gained a
fail_unless_equals_clocktime() convenience macro as well as some new
GstHarness API for for proposing meta APIs from the allocation
query: gst_harness_add_propose_allocation_meta(). ASSERT_CRITICAL()
checks in unit tests are now skipped if GStreamer was compiled with
GST_DISABLE_GLIB_CHECKS.
- gst_audio_buffer_truncate() convenience function to truncate a raw
audio buffer
Miscellaneous performance and memory optimisations
As always there have been many performance and memory usage improvements
across all components and modules. Some of them (such as dmabuf
import/export) have already been mentioned elsewhere so won’t be
repeated here.
The following list is only a small snapshot of some of the more
interesting optimisations that haven’t been mentioned in other contexts
yet:
- The GstVideoEncoder and GstVideoDecoder base classes now release the
STREAM_LOCK when pushing out buffers, which means (multi-threaded)
encoders and decoders can now receive and continue to process input
buffers whilst waiting for downstream elements in the pipeline to
process the buffer that was pushed out. This increases throughput
and reduces processing latency, also and especially for
hardware-accelerated encoder/decoder elements.
- GstQueueArray has seen a few API additions
(gst_queue_array_peek_nth(), gst_queue_array_set_clear_func(),
gst_queue_array_clear()) so that it can be used in other places like
GstAdapter instead of a GList, which reduces allocations and
improves performance.
- appsink now reuses the sample object in pull_sample() if possible
- rtpsession only starts the RTCP thread when it’s actually needed now
- udpsrc uses a buffer pool now and the GstUdpSrc object structure was
optimised for better cache performance
GstPlayer
- API was added to fine-tune the synchronisation offset between
subtitles and video
Miscellaneous changes
- As a result of moving to newer FFmpeg APIs, encoder and decoder
elements exposed by the GStreamer FFmpeg wrapper plugin (gst-libav)
may have seen possibly incompatible changes to property names and/or
types, and not all properties exposed might be functional. We are
still reviewing the new properties and aim to minimise breaking
changes at least for the most commonly-used properties, so please
report any issues you run into!
OpenGL integration
- The OpenGL mixer elements have been moved from -bad to
gst-plugins-base (see above)
- The Mesa GBM backend now supports headless mode
- gloverlaycompositor: New OpenGL-based compositor element that
flattens any overlays from GstVideoOverlayCompositionMetas into the
video stream.
- glalpha: New element that adds an alpha channel to a video stream.
The values of the alpha channel can either be set to a constant or
can be dynamically calculated via chroma keying. It is similar to
the existing alpha element but based on OpenGL. Calculations are
done in floating point so results may not be identical to the output
of the existing alpha element.
- glupload: Implement direct dmabuf uploader, the idea being that some
GPUs (like the Vivante series) can actually perform the YUV->RGB
conversion internally, so no custom conversion shaders are needed.
To make use of this feature, we need an additional uploader that can
import DMABUF FDs and also directly pass the pixel format, relying
on the GPU to do the conversion.
- The OpenGL library no longer restores the OpenGL viewport. This is a
performance optimization to not require performing multiple
expensive glGet*() function calls per frame. This affects any
application or plugin use of the following functions and objects:
- glcolorconvert library object (not the element)
- glviewconvert library object (not the element)
- gst_gl_framebuffer_draw_to_texture()
- custom GstGLWindow implementations
Tracing framework and debugging improvements
- There is now a GDB PRETTY PRINTER FOR VARIOUS GSTREAMER TYPES: For
GstObject pointers the type and name is added, e.g.
0x5555557e4110 [GstDecodeBin|decodebin0]. For GstMiniObject pointers
the object type is added, e.g. 0x7fffe001fc50 [GstBuffer]. For
GstClockTime and GstClockTimeDiff the time is also printed in human
readable form, e.g. 150116219955 [+0:02:30.116219955].
- GDB EXTENSION WITH TWO CUSTOM GDB COMMANDS gst-dot AND gst-print:
- gst-dot creates dot files that a very close to what
GST_DEBUG_BIN_TO_DOT_FILE() produces, but object properties and
buffer contents such as codec-data in caps are not available.
- gst-print produces high-level information about a GStreamer
object. This is currently limited to pads for GstElements and
events for the pads. The output may look like this:
(gdb) gst-print pad.object.parent
GstMatroskaDemux (matroskademux0) {
SinkPad (sink, pull) {
}
SrcPad (video_0, push) {
events:
stream-start:
stream-id: 0463ccb080d00b8689bf569a435c4ff84f9ff753545318ae2328ea0763fd0bec/001:1274058367
caps: video/x-theora
width: 1920
height: 800
pixel-aspect-ratio: 1/1
framerate: 24/1
streamheader: < 0x5555557c7d30 [GstBuffer], 0x5555557c7e40 [GstBuffer], 0x7fffe00141d0 [GstBuffer] >
segment: time
rate: 1
tag: global
container-format: Matroska
}
SrcPad (audio_0, push) {
events:
stream-start:
stream-id: 0463ccb080d00b8689bf569a435c4ff84f9ff753545318ae2328ea0763fd0bec/002:1551204875
caps: audio/mpeg
mpegversion: 4
framed: true
stream-format: raw
codec_data: 0x7fffe0014500 [GstBuffer]
level: 2
base-profile: lc
profile: lc
channels: 2
rate: 44100
segment: time
rate: 1
tag: global
container-format: Matroska
tag: stream
audio-codec: MPEG-4 AAC audio
language-code: en
}
}
- gst_structure_to_string() now serialises the actual value of
pointers when serialising GstStructures instead of claiming they’re
NULL. This makes debug logging in various places less confusing,
because it’s clear now that structure fields actually hold valid
objects. Such object pointer values will never be deserialised
however.
Tools
- gst-inspect-1.0 has coloured output now and will automatically use a
pager if the output does not fit on a page. This only works in a
UNIX environment and if the output is not piped, and on Windows 10
build 16257 or newer. If you don’t like the colours you can disable
them by setting the GST_INSPECT_NO_COLORS=1 environment variable or
passing the --no-color command line option.
GStreamer RTSP server
- Improved backlog handling when using TCP interleaved for data
transport. Before there was a fixed maximum size for backlog
messages, which was prone to deadlocks and made it difficult to
control memory usage with the watch backlog. The RTSP server now
limits queued TCP data messages to one per stream, moving queuing of
the data into the pipeline and leaving the RTSP connection
responsive to RTSP messages in both directions, preventing all those
problems.
- Initial ULP Forward Error Correction support in rtspclientsink and
for RECORD mode in the server.
- API to explicitly enable retransmission requests (RTX)
- Lots of multicast-related fixes
- rtsp-auth: Add support for parsing .htdigest files
GStreamer VAAPI
- this section will be filled in in due course
GStreamer OMX
- Add support of NV16 format to video encoders input.
- Video decoders now handle the ALLOCATION query to tell upstream
about the number of buffers they require. Video encoders will also
use this query to adjust their number of allocated buffers
preventing starvation when using dynamic buffer mode.
- The OMX_PERFORMANCE debug category has been renamed to OMX_API_TRACE
and can now be used to track a widder variety of interactions
between OMX and GStreamer.
- Video encoders will now detect frame rate only changes and will
inform OMX about it rather than doing a full format reset.
- Various Zynq UltraScale+ specific improvements:
- Video encoders are now able to import dmabuf from upstream.
- Support for HEVC range extension profiles and more AVC profiles.
- We can now request video encoders to generate an IDR using the
force key unit event.
GStreamer Editing Services and NLE
- this section will be filled in in due course
GStreamer validate
- this section will be filled in in due course
GStreamer Python Bindings
- add binding for gst_pad_set_caps()
- pygobject dependency requirement was bumped to >= 3.8
- new audiotestsrc, audioplot, and mixer plugin examples, and a
dynamic pipeline example
GStreamer C# Bindings
- bindings for the GstWebRTC library
GStreamer Rust Bindings
The GStreamer Rust bindings are now officially part of the GStreamer
project and are also maintained in the GStreamer GitLab.
The releases will generally not be synchronized with the releases of
other GStreamer parts due to dependencies on other projects.
Also unlike the other GStreamer libraries, the bindings will not commit
to full API stability but instead will follow the approach that is
generally taken by Rust projects, e.g.:
1) 0.12.X will be completely API compatible with all other 0.12.Y
versions.
2) 0.12.X+1 will contain bugfixes and compatible new feature additions.
3) 0.13.0 will _not_ be backwards compatible with 0.12.X but projects
will be able to stay at 0.12.X without any problems as long as they
don’t need newer features.
The current stable release is 0.12.2 and the next release series will be
0.13, probably around March 2019.
At this point the bindings cover most of GStreamer core (except for most
notably GstAllocator and GstMemory), and most parts of the app, audio,
base, check, editing-services, gl, net. pbutils, player, rtsp,
rtsp-server, sdp, video and webrtc libraries.
Also included is support for creating subclasses of the following types
and writing GStreamer plugins:
- gst::Element
- gst::Bin and gst::Pipeline
- gst::URIHandler and gst::ChildProxy
- gst::Pad, gst::GhostPad
- gst_base::Aggregator and gst_base::AggregatorPad
- gst_base::BaseSrc and gst_base::BaseSink
- gst_base::BaseTransform
Changes to 0.12.X since 0.12.0
Fixed
- PTP clock constructor actually creates a PTP instead of NTP clock
Added
- Bindings for GStreamer Editing Services
- Bindings for GStreamer Check testing library
- Bindings for the encoding profile API (encodebin)
- VideoFrame, VideoInfo, AudioInfo, StructureRef implements Send and
Sync now
- VideoFrame has a function to get the raw FFI pointer
- From impls from the Error/Success enums to the combined enums like
FlowReturn
- Bin-to-dot file functions were added to the Bin trait
- gst_base::Adapter implements SendUnique now
- More complete bindings for the gst_video::VideoOverlay interface,
especially
gst_video::is_video_overlay_prepare_window_handle_message()
Changed
- All references were updated from GitHub to freedesktop.org GitLab
- Fix various links in the README.md
- Link to the correct location for the documentation
- Remove GitLab badge as that only works with gitlab.com currently
Changes in git master for 0.13
Fixed
- gst::tag::Album is the album tag now instead of artist sortname
Added
- Subclassing infrastructure was moved directly into the bindings,
making the gst-plugin crate deprecated. This involves many API
changes but generally cleans up code and makes it more flexible.
Take a look at the gst-plugins-rs crate for various examples.
- Bindings for CapsFeatures and Meta
- Bindings for
ParentBufferMeta,VideoMetaandVideoOverlayCompositionMeta`
- Bindings for VideoOverlayComposition and VideoOverlayRectangle
- Bindings for VideoTimeCode
- UniqueFlowCombiner and UniqueAdapter wrappers that make use of the
Rust compile-time mutability checks and expose more API in a safe
way, and as a side-effect implement Sync and Send now
- More complete bindings for Allocation Query
- pbutils functions for codec descriptions
- TagList::iter() for iterating over all tags while getting a single
value per tag. The old ::iter_tag_list() function was renamed to
::iter_generic() and still provides access to each value for a tag
- Bus::iter() and Bus::iter_timed() iterators around the corresponding
::pop\*() functions
- serde serialization of Value can also handle Buffer now
- Extensive comments to all examples with explanations
- Transmuxing example showing how to use typefind, multiqueue and
dynamic pads
- basic-tutorial-12 was ported and added
Changed
- Rust 1.31 is the minimum supported Rust version now
- Update to latest gir code generator and glib bindings
- Functions returning e.g. gst::FlowReturn or other “combined” enums
were changed to return split enums like
Result<gst::FlowSuccess, gst::FlowError> to allow usage of the
standard Rust error handling.
- MiniObject subclasses are now newtype wrappers around the underlying
GstRc<FooRef> wrapper. This does not change the API in any breaking
way for the current usages, but allows MiniObjects to also be
implemented in other crates and makes sure rustdoc places the
documentation in the right places.
- BinExt extension trait was renamed to GstBinExt to prevent conflicts
with gtk::Bin if both are imported
- Buffer::from_slice() can’t possible return None
- Various clippy warnings
GStreamer Rust Plugins
Like the GStreamer Rust bindings, the Rust plugins are now officially
part of the GStreamer project and are also maintained in the GStreamer
GitLab.
In the 0.3.x versions this contained infrastructure for writing
GStreamer plugins in Rust, and a set of plugins.
In git master that infrastructure was moved to the GLib and GStreamer
bindings directly, together with many other improvements that were made
possible by this, so the gst-plugins-rs repository only contains
GStreamer elements now.
Elements included are:
- Tutorials plugin: identity, rgb2gray and sinesrc with extensive
comments
- rsaudioecho, a port of the audiofx element
- rsfilesrc, rsfilesink
- rsflvdemux, a FLV demuxer. Not feature-equivalent with flvdemux yet
- threadshare plugin: ts-appsrc, ts-proxysrc/sink, ts-queue, ts-udpsrc
and ts-tcpclientsrc elements that use a fixed number of threads and
share them between instances. For more background about these
elements see Sebastian’s talk “When adding more threads adds more
problems - Thread-sharing between elements in GStreamer” at the
GStreamer Conference 2017.
- rshttpsrc, a HTTP source around the hyper/reqwest Rust libraries.
Not feature-equivalent with souphttpsrc yet.
- togglerecord, an element that allows to start/stop recording at any
time and keeps all audio/video streams in sync.
- mccparse and mccenc, parsers and encoders for the MCC closed caption
file format.
Changes to 0.3.X since 0.3.0
- All references were updated from GitHub to freedesktop.org GitLab
- Fix various links in the README.md
- Link to the correct location for the documentation
Changes in git master for 0.4
- togglerecord: Switch to parking_lot crate for mutexes/condition
variables for lower overhead
- Merge threadshare plugin here
- New closedcaption plugin with mccparse and mccenc elements
- New identity element for the tutorials plugin
- Register plugins statically in tests instead of relying on the
plugin loader to find the shared library in a specific place
- Update to the latest API changes in the GLib and GStreamer bindings
- Update to the latest versions of all crates
Build and Dependencies
- The MESON BUILD SYSTEM BUILD IS NOW FEATURE-COMPLETE (*) and it is
now the recommended build system on all platforms and also used by
Cerbero to build GStreamer on all platforms. The Autotools build is
scheduled to be removed in the next cycle. Developers who currently
use gst-uninstalled should move to gst-build. The build option
naming has been cleaned up and made consistent and there are now
feature options to enable/disable plugins and various other features
on a case-by-case basis. (*) with the exception of plugin docs which
will be handled differently in future
- Symbol export in libraries is now controlled via explicit exports
using symbol visibility or export defines where supported, to ensure
consistency across all platforms. This also allows libraries to have
exports that vary based on detected platform features and configure
options as is the case with the GStreamer OpenGL integration library
for example. A few symbols that had been exported by accident in
earlier versions may no longer be exported. These symbols will not
have had declarations in any public header files then though and
would not have been usable.
- The GStreamer FFmpeg wrapper plugin (gst-libav) now depends on
FFmpeg 4.x and uses the new FFmpeg 4.x API and stopped relying on
ancient API that was removed with the FFmpeg 4.x release. This means
that it is no longer possible to build this module against an older
system-provided FFmpeg 3.x version. Use the internal FFmpeg 4.x copy
instead if you build using autotools, or use gst-libav 1.14.x
instead which targets the FFmpeg 3.x API and _should_ work fine in
combination with a newer GStreamer. It’s difficult for us to support
both old and new FFmpeg APIs at the same time, apologies for any
inconvenience caused.
- Hardware-accelerated Nvidia video encoder/decoder plugins nvdec and
nvenc can be built against CUDA Toolkit versions 9 and 10.0 now. The
dynlink interface has been dropped since it’s deprecated in 10.0.
- The (optional) OpenCV requirement has been bumped to >= 3.0.0 and
the plugin can also be built against OpenCV 4.x now.
- New sctp plugin based on usrsctp (for WebRTC data channels)
Cerbero
Cerbero is a meta build system used to build GStreamer plus dependencies
on platforms where dependencies are not readily available, such as
Windows, Android, iOS and macOS.
Cerbero has seen a number of improvements:
- Cerbero has been ported to Python 3 and requires Python 3.5 or newer
now
- Source tarballs are now protected by checksums in the recipes to
guard against download errors and malicious takeover of projects or
websites. In addition, downloads are only allowed via secure
transports now and plain HTTP, FTP and git:// transports are not
allowed anymore.
- There is now a new fetch-bootstrap command which downloads sources
required for bootstrapping, with an optional --build-tools-only
argument to match the bootstrap --build-tools-only command.
- The bootstrap, build, package and bundle-source commands gained a
new --offline switch that ensures that only sources from the cache
are used and never downloaded via the network. This is useful in
combination with the fetch and fetch-bootstrap commands that acquire
sources ahead of time before any build steps are executed. This
allows more control over the sources used and when sources are
updated, and is particularly useful for build environments that
don’t have network access.
- bootstrap --assume-yes will automatically say ‘yes’ to any
interactive prompts during the bootstrap stage, such as those from
apt-get or yum.
- bootstrap --system-only will only bootstrap the system without build
tools.
- Manifest support: The build manifest can be used in continuous
integration (CI) systems to fixate the Git revision of certain
projects so that all builds of a pipeline are on the same reference.
This is used in GStreamer’s gitlab CI for example. It can also be
used in order to re-produce a specific build. To set a manifest, you
can set manifest = 'my_manifest.xml' in your configuration file, or
use the --manifest command line option. The command line option will
take precendence over anything specific in the configuration file.
- The new build-deps command can be used to build only the
dependencies of a recipe, without the recipe itself.
- new --list-variants command to list available variants
- variants can now be set on the command line via the -v option as a
comma-separated list. This overrides any variants set in any
configuration files.
- new qt5, intelmsdk and nvidia variants for enabling Qt5 and hardware
codec support. See the Enabling Optional Features with Variants
section in the Cerbero documentation for more details how to enable
and use these variants.
- A new -t / --timestamp command line switch makes commands print
timestamps
Platform-specific changes and improvements
Android
- toolchain: update compiler to clang and NDKr18. NDK r18 removed the
armv5 target and only has Android platforms that target at least
armv7 so the armv5 target is not useful anymore.
- The way that GIO modules are named has changed due to upstream GLib
natively adding support for loading static GIO modules. This means
that any GStreamer application using gnutls for SSL/TLS on the
Android or iOS platforms (or any other setup using static libraries)
will fail to link looking for the g_io_module_gnutls_load_static()
function. The new function name is now
g_io_gnutls_load(gpointer data). data can be NULL for a static
library. Look at this commit for the necessary change in the
examples.
- various build issues on Android have been fixed.
macOS and iOS
- various build issues on iOS have been fixed.
- the minimum required iOS version is now 9.0. The difference in
adoption between 8.0 and 9.0 is 0.1% and the bump to 9.0 fixes some
build issues.
- The way that GIO modules are named has changed due to upstream GLib
natively adding support for loading static GIO modules. This means
that any GStreamer application using gnutls for SSL/TLS on the
Android or iOS platforms (or any other setup using static libraries)
will fail to link looking for the g_io_module_gnutls_load_static()
function. The new function name is now
g_io_gnutls_load(gpointer data). data can be NULL for a static
library. Look at this commit for the necessary change in the
examples.
Windows
- The webrtcdsp element is shipped again as part of the Windows binary
packages, the build system issue has been resolved.
- ‘Inconsistent DLL linkage’ warnings when building with MSVC have
been fixed
- Hardware-accelerated Nvidia video encoder/decoder plugins nvdec and
nvenc build on Windows now, also with MSVC and using Meson.
- The ksvideosrc camera capture plugin supports 16-bit grayscale video
now
- The wasapisrc audio capture element implements loopback recording
from another output device or sink
- wasapisink recover from low buffer levels in shared mode and some
exclusive mode fixes
- dshowsrc now implements the GstDeviceMonitor interface
Contributors
Aaron Boxer, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué, Alessandro Decina, Alexandru Băluț,
Alex Ashley, Alexey Chernov, Alicia Boya García, Amit Pandya, Andoni
Morales Alastruey, Andreas Frisch, Andre McCurdy, Andy Green, Anthony
Violo, Antoine Jacoutot, Antonio Ospite, Arun Raghavan, Aurelien Jarno,
Aurélien Zanelli, ayaka, Bananahemic, Bastian Köcher, Branko Subasic,
Brendan Shanks, Carlos Rafael Giani, Charlie Turner, Christoph Reiter,
Corentin Noël, Daeseok Youn, Damian Vicino, Dan Kegel, Daniel Drake,
Daniel Klamt, Danilo Spinella, Dardo D Kleiner, David Ing, David
Svensson Fors, Devarsh Thakkar, Dimitrios Katsaros, Edward Hervey,
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Enrique Ocaña González, Erlend Eriksen, Ezequiel
Garcia, Fabien Dessenne, Fabrizio Gennari, Florent Thiéry, Francisco
Velazquez, Freyr666, Garima Gaur, Gary Bisson, George Kiagiadakis, Georg
Lippitsch, Georg Ottinger, Geunsik Lim, Göran Jönsson, Guillaume
Desmottes, H1Gdev, Haihao Xiang, Haihua Hu, Harshad Khedkar, Havard
Graff, He Junyan, Hoonhee Lee, Hosang Lee, Hyunjun Ko, Ilya Smelykh,
Ingo Randolf, Iñigo Huguet, Jakub Adam, James Stevenson, Jan Alexander
Steffens, Jan Schmidt, Jerome Laheurte, Jimmy Ohn, Joakim Johansson,
Jochen Henneberg, Johan Bjäreholt, John-Mark Bell, John Bassett, John
Nikolaides, Jonathan Karlsson, Jonny Lamb, Jordan Petridis, Josep Torra,
Joshua M. Doe, Jos van Egmond, Juan Navarro, Julian Bouzas, Jun Xie,
Junyan He, Justin Kim, Kai Kang, Kim Tae Soo, Kirill Marinushkin, Kyrylo
Polezhaiev, Lars Petter Endresen, Linus Svensson, Louis-Francis
Ratté-Boulianne, Lucas Stach, Luis de Bethencourt, Luz Paz, Lyon Wang,
Maciej Wolny, Marc-André Lureau, Marc Leeman, Marco Trevisan (Treviño),
Marcos Kintschner, Marian Mihailescu, Marinus Schraal, Mark Nauwelaerts,
Marouen Ghodhbane, Martin Kelly, Matej Knopp, Mathieu Duponchelle,
Matteo Valdina, Matthew Waters, Matthias Fend, memeka, Michael Drake,
Michael Gruner, Michael Olbrich, Michael Tretter, Miguel Paris, Mike
Wey, Mikhail Fludkov, Naveen Cherukuri, Nicola Murino, Nicolas Dufresne,
Niels De Graef, Nirbheek Chauhan, Norbert Wesp, Ognyan Tonchev, Olivier
Crête, Omar Akkila, Pat DeSantis, Patricia Muscalu, Patrick Radizi,
Patrik Nilsson, Paul Kocialkowski, Per Forlin, Peter Körner, Peter
Seiderer, Petr Kulhavy, Philippe Normand, Philippe Renon, Philipp Zabel,
Pierre Labastie, Piotr Drąg, Roland Jon, Roman Sivriver, Roman Shpuntov,
Rosen Penev, Russel Winder, Sam Gigliotti, Santiago Carot-Nemesio,
Sean-Der, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Shi Yan, Sjoerd Simons, Snir
Sheriber, Song Bing, Soon, Thean Siew, Sreerenj Balachandran, Stefan
Ringel, Stephane Cerveau, Stian Selnes, Suhas Nayak, Takeshi Sato,
Thiago Santos, Thibault Saunier, Thomas Bluemel, Tianhao Liu,
Tim-Philipp Müller, Tobias Ronge, Tomasz Andrzejak, Tomislav Tustonić,
U. Artie Eoff, Ulf Olsson, Varunkumar Allagadapa, Víctor Guzmán, Víctor
Manuel Jáquez Leal, Vincenzo Bono, Vineeth T M, Vivia Nikolaidou, Wang
Fei, wangzq, Whoopie, Wim Taymans, Wind Yuan, Wonchul Lee, Xabier
Rodriguez Calvar, Xavier Claessens, Haihao Xiang, Yacine Bandou,
Yeongjin Jeong, Yuji Kuwabara, Zeeshan Ali,
… and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent
suggestions or helped testing.
Bugs fixed in 1.16
- this section will be filled in in due course
More than XXX bugs have been fixed during the development of 1.16.
This list does not include issues that have been cherry-picked into the
stable 1.16 branch and fixed there as well, all fixes that ended up in
the 1.16 branch are also included in 1.16.
This list also does not include issues that have been fixed without a
bug report in bugzilla, so the actual number of fixes is much higher.
Stable 1.16 branch
After the 1.16.0 release there will be several 1.16.x bug-fix releases
which will contain bug fixes which have been deemed suitable for a
stable branch, but no new features or intrusive changes will be added to
a bug-fix release usually. The 1.16.x bug-fix releases will be made from
the git 1.16 branch, which is a stable branch.
1.16.0
1.16.0 is scheduled to be released in April 2019.
Known Issues
- possibly breaking/incompatible changes to properties of wrapped
FFmpeg decoders and encoders (see above).
- The way that GIO modules are named has changed due to upstream GLib
natively adding support for loading static GIO modules. This means
that any GStreamer application using gnutls for SSL/TLS on the
Android or iOS platforms (or any other setup using static libraries)
will fail to link looking for the g_io_module_gnutls_load_static()
function. The new function name is now
g_io_gnutls_load(gpointer data). See Android/iOS sections above for
further details.
Schedule for 1.18
Our next major feature release will be 1.18, and 1.17 will be the
unstable development version leading up to the stable 1.18 release. The
development of 1.17/1.18 will happen in the git master branch.
The plan for the 1.18 development cycle is yet to be confirmed, but it
is expected that feature freeze will be around July 2019 followed by
several 1.17 pre-releases and the new 1.18 stable release in
August/September.
1.18 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 1.16, 1.14, 1.12, 1.10,
1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0 release series.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
_These release notes have been prepared by Tim-Philipp Müller with_
_contributions from Sebastian Dröge, Guillaume Desmottes and Matthew
Waters._
_License: CC BY-SA 4.0_
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