The GStreamer team is excited to announce a new major feature release of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!

The 1.16 release series adds new features on top of the previous 1.14 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.

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 (with the exception of plugin docs) 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.
• The GStreamer Editing Services gained a gesdemux element that allows directly playing back serialized edit list with playbin or (uri)decodebin
• Many performance improvements

Full release notes can be found here.

Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.

You can download release tarballs directly here: gstreamer, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, gst-libav, gst-rtsp-server, gst-python, gst-editing-services, gst-validate, gstreamer-vaapi, gstreamer-sharp, or gst-omx.