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GStreamer 1.12 Release Notes

GStreamer 1.12.0 was originally released on 4th May 2017. The latest bug-fix release in the 1.12 series is 1.12.5 and was released on 28 March 2018.

1.12.5 will be the last release in the 1.12 release series which has now been superseded by the 1.14 release series.

See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.12/ for the latest version of this document.

Last updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018, 10:00 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 new features, bug fixes and other improvements.

Highlights

  • new msdk plugin for Intel's Media SDK for hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding on Intel graphics hardware on Windows or Linux.

  • x264enc can now use multiple x264 library versions compiled for different bit depths at runtime, to transparently provide support for multiple bit depths.

  • videoscale and videoconvert now support multi-threaded scaling and conversion, which is particularly useful with higher resolution video.

  • h264parse will now automatically insert AU delimiters if needed when outputting byte-stream format, which improves standard compliance and is needed in particular for HLS playback on iOS/macOS.

  • rtpbin has acquired bundle support for incoming streams

Major new features and changes

Noteworthy new API

  • The video library gained support for a number of new video formats:

    • GBR_12LE, GBR_12BE, GBRA_12LE, GBRA_12BE (planar 4:4:4 RGB/RGBA, 12 bits per channel)
    • GBRA_10LE, GBRA_10BE (planar 4:4:4:4 RGBA, 10 bits per channel)
    • GBRA (planar 4:4:4:4 ARGB, 8 bits per channel)
    • I420_12BE, I420_12LE (planar 4:2:0 YUV, 12 bits per channel)
    • I422_12BE,I422_12LE (planar 4:2:2 YUV, 12 bits per channel)
    • Y444_12BE, Y444_12LE (planar 4:4:4 YUV, 12 bits per channel)
    • VYUY (another packed 4:2:2 YUV format)
  • The high-level GstPlayer API was extended with functions for taking video snapshots and enabling accurate seeking. It can optionally also use the still-experimental playbin3 element now.

New Elements

  • msdk: new plugin for Intel's Media SDK for hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding on Intel graphics hardware on Windows or Linux. This includes an H.264 encoder/decoder (msdkh264dec, msdkh264enc), an H.265 encoder/decoder (msdkh265dec, msdkh265enc), an MJPEG encoder/encoder (msdkmjpegdec, msdkmjpegenc), an MPEG-2 video encoder (msdkmpeg2enc) and a VP8 encoder (msdkvp8enc).

  • iqa is a new Image Quality Assessment plugin based on DSSIM, similar to the old (unported) videomeasure element.

  • The faceoverlay element, which allows you to overlay SVG graphics over a detected face in a video stream, has been ported from 0.10.

  • our ffmpeg wrapper plugin now exposes/maps the ffmpeg Opus audio decoder (avdec_opus) as well as the GoPro CineForm HD / CFHD decoder (avdec_cfhd), and also a parser/writer for the IVF format (avdemux_ivf and avmux_ivf).

  • audiobuffersplit is a new element that splits raw audio buffers into equal-sized buffers

  • audiomixmatrix is a new element that mixes N:M audio channels according to a configured mix matrix.

  • The timecodewait element got renamed to avwait and can operate in different modes now.

  • The opencv video processing plugin has gained a new dewarp element that dewarps fisheye images.

  • ttml is a new plugin for parsing and rendering subtitles in Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) format. For the time being these elements will not be autoplugged during media playback however, unless the GST_TTML_AUTOPLUG=1 environment variable is set. Only the EBU-TT-D profile is supported at this point.

New element features and additions

  • x264enc can now use multiple x264 library versions compiled for different bit depths at runtime, to transparently provide support for multiple bit depths. A new configure parameter --with-x264-libraries has been added to specify additional paths to look for additional x264 libraries to load. Background is that the libx264 library is always compile for one specific bit depth and the x264enc element would simply support the depth supported by the underlying library. Now we can support multiple depths.

  • x264enc also picks up the interlacing mode automatically from the input caps now and passed interlacing/TFF information correctly to the library.

  • videoscale and videoconvert now support multi-threaded scaling and conversion, which is particularly useful with higher resolution video. This has to be enabled explicitly via the "n-threads" property.

  • videorate's new "rate" property lets you set a speed factor on the output stream

  • splitmuxsink's buffer collection and scheduling was rewritten to make processing and splitting deterministic; before it was possible for a buffer to end up in a different file chunk in different runs. splitmuxsink also gained a new "format-location-full" signal that works just like the existing "format-location" signal only that it is also passed the primary stream's first buffer as argument, so that it is possible to construct the file name based on metadata such as the buffer timestamp or any GstMeta attached to the buffer. The new "max-size-timecode" property allows for timecode-based splitting. splitmuxsink will now also automatically start a new file if the input caps change in an incompatible way.

  • fakesink has a new "drop-out-of-segment" property to not drop out-of-segment buffers, which is useful for debugging purposes.

  • identity gained a "ts-offset" property.

  • both fakesink and identity now also print what kind of metas are attached to buffers when printing buffer details via the "last-message" property used by gst-launch-1.0 -v.

  • multiqueue: made "min-interleave-time" a configurable property.

  • video nerds will be thrilled to know that videotestsrc's snow is now deterministic. videotestsrc also gained some new properties to make the ball pattern based on system time, and invert colours each second ("animation-mode", "motion", and "flip" properties).

  • oggdemux reverse playback should work again now. You're welcome.

  • playbin3 and urisourcebin now have buffering enabled by default, and buffering message aggregation was fixed.

  • tcpclientsrc now has a "timeout" property

  • appsink has gained support for buffer lists. For backwards compatibility reasons users need to enable this explicitly with gst_app_sink_set_buffer_list_support(), however. Once activated, a pulled GstSample can contain either a buffer list or a single buffer.

  • splitmuxsrc reverse playback was fixed and handling of sparse streams, such as subtitle tracks or metadata tracks, was improved.

  • matroskamux has acquired support for muxing G722 audio; it also marks all buffers as keyframes now when streaming only audio, so that tcpserversink will behave properly with audio-only streams.

  • qtmux gained support for ProRes 4444 XQ, HEVC/H.265 and CineForm (GoPro) formats, and generally writes more video stream-related metadata into the track headers. It is also allows configuration of the maximum interleave size in bytes and time now. For fragmented mp4 we always write the tfdt atom now as required by the DASH spec.

  • qtdemux supports FLAC, xvid, mp2, S16L and CineForm (GoPro) tracks now, and generally tries harder to extract more video-related information from track headers, such as colorimetry or interlacing details. It also received a couple of fixes for the scenario where upstream operates in TIME format and feeds chunks to qtdemux (e.g. DASH or MSE).

  • audioecho has two new properties to apply a delay only to certain channels to create a surround effect, rather than an echo on all channels. This is useful when upmixing from stereo, for example. The "surround-delay" property enables this, and the "surround-mask" property controls which channels are considered surround sound channels in this case.

  • webrtcdsp gained various new properties for gain control and also exposes voice activity detection now, in which case it will post "voice-activity" messages on the bus whenever the voice detection status changes.

  • The decklink capture elements for Blackmagic Decklink cards have seen a number of improvements:

    • decklinkvideosrc will post a warning message on "no signal" and an info message when the signal lock has been (re)acquired. There is also a new read-only "signal" property that can be used to query the signal lock status. The GAP flag will be set on buffers that are captured without a signal lock. The new drop-no-signal-frames will make decklinkvideosrc drop all buffers that have been captured without an input signal. The "skip-first-time" property will make the source drop the first few buffers, which is handy since some devices will at first output buffers with the wrong resolution before they manage to figure out the right input format and decide on the actual output caps.

    • decklinkaudiosrc supports more than just 2 audio channels now.

    • The capture sources no longer use the "hardware" timestamps which turn out to be useless and instead just use the pipeline clock directly.

  • srtpdec now also has a readonly "stats" property, just like srtpenc.

  • rtpbin gained RTP bundle support, as used by e.g. WebRTC. The first rtpsession will have a rtpssrcdemux element inside splitting the streams based on their SSRC and potentially dispatch to a different rtpsession. Because retransmission SSRCs need to be merged with the corresponding media stream the ::on-bundled-ssrc signal is emitted on rtpbin so that the application can find out to which session the SSRC belongs.

  • rtprtxqueue gained two new properties exposing retransmission statistics ("requests" and "fulfilled-requests")

  • kmssink will now use the preferred mode for the monitor and render to the base plane if nothing else has set a mode yet. This can also be done forcibly in any case via the new "force-modesetting" property. Furthermore, kmssink now allows only the supported connector resolutions as input caps in order to avoid scaling or positioning of the input stream, as kmssink can't know whether scaling or positioning would be more appropriate for the use case at hand.

  • waylandsink can now take DMAbuf buffers as input in the presence of a compatible Wayland compositor. This enables zero-copy transfer from a decoder or source that outputs DMAbuf. It will also set surface opacity hint to allow better rendering optimization in the compositor.

  • udpsrc can be bound to more than one interface when joining a multicast group, this is done by giving a comma separate list of interfaces such as multicast-iface="eth0,eth1".

Plugin moves

  • dataurisrc moved from gst-plugins-bad to core

  • The rawparse plugin containing the rawaudioparse and rawvideoparse elements moved from gst-plugins-bad to gst-plugins-base. These elements supersede the old videoparse and audioparse elements. They work the same, with just some minor API changes. The old legacy elements still exist in gst-plugins-bad, but may be removed at some point in the future.

  • timecodestamper is an element that attaches time codes to video buffers in form of GstVideoTimeCodeMetas. It had a "clock-source" property which has now been removed because it was fairly useless in practice. It gained some new properties however: the "first-timecode" property can be used to set the inital timecode; alternatively "first-timecode-to-now" can be set, and then the current system time at the time the first buffer arrives is used as base time for the time codes.

Plugin removals

  • The mad mp1/mp2/mp3 decoder plugin was removed from gst-plugins-ugly, as libmad is GPL licensed, has been unmaintained for a very long time, and there are better alternatives available. Use the mpg123audiodec element from the mpg123 plugin in gst-plugins-ugly instead, or avdec_mp3 from the gst-libav module which wraps the ffmpeg library. We expect that we will be able to move mp3 decoding to gst-plugins-good in the next cycle seeing that most patents around mp3 have expired recently or are about to expire.

  • The mimic plugin was removed from gst-plugins-bad. It contained a decoder and encoder for a video codec used by MSN messenger many many years ago (in a galaxy far far away). The underlying library is unmaintained and no one really needs to use this codec any more. Recorded videos can still be played back with the MIMIC decoder in gst-libav.

Miscellaneous API additions

  • Request pad name templates passed to gst_element_request_pad() may now contain multiple specifiers, such as e.g. src_%u_%u.

  • gst_buffer_iterate_meta_filtered() is a variant of gst_buffer_iterate_meta() that only returns metas of the requested type and skips all other metas.

  • gst_pad_task_get_state() gets the current state of a task in a thread-safe way.

  • gst_uri_get_media_fragment_table() provides the media fragments of an URI as a table of key=value pairs.

  • gst_print(), gst_println(), gst_printerr(), and gst_printerrln() can be used to print to stdout or stderr. These functions are similar to g_print() and g_printerr() but they also support all the additional format specifiers provided by the GStreamer logging system, such as e.g. GST_PTR_FORMAT.

  • a GstParamSpecArray has been added, for elements who want to have array type properties, such as the audiomixmatrix element for example. There are also two new functions to set and get properties of this type from bindings:

    • gst_util_set_object_array()
    • gst_util_get_object_array()
  • various helper functions have been added to make it easier to set or get GstStructure fields containing caps-style array or list fields from language bindings (which usually support GValueArray but don't know about the GStreamer specific fundamental types):

  • a new 'dynamic type' registry factory type was added to register dynamically loadable GType types. This is useful for automatically loading enum/flags types that are used in caps, such as for example the GstVideoMultiviewFlagsSet type used in multiview video caps.

  • there is a new GstProxyControlBinding for use with GstController. This allows proxying the control interface from one property on one GstObject to another property (of the same type) in another GstObject. So e.g. in parent-child relationship, one may need to call gst_object_sync_values() on the child and have a binding (set elsewhere) on the parent update the value. This is used in glvideomixer and glsinkbin for example, where sync_values() on the child pad or element will call sync_values() on the exposed bin pad or element.

    Note that this doesn't solve GObject property forwarding, that must be taken care of by the implementation manually or using GBinding.

  • gst_base_parse_drain() has been made public for subclasses to use.

  • `gst_base_sink_set_drop_out_of_segment()' can be used by subclasses to prevent GstBaseSink from dropping buffers that fall outside of the segment.

  • gst_calculate_linear_regression() is a new utility function to calculate a linear regression.

  • gst_debug_get_stack_trace is an easy way to retrieve a stack trace, which can be useful in tracer plugins.

  • allocators: the dmabuf allocator is now sub-classable, and there is a new GST_CAPS_FEATURE_MEMORY_DMABUF define.

  • video decoder subclasses can use the newly-added function gst_video_decoder_allocate_output_frame_with_params() to pass a GstBufferPoolAcquireParams to the buffer pool for each buffer allocation.

  • the video time code API has gained a dedicated GstVideoTimeCodeInterval type plus related API, including functions to add intervals to timecodes.

  • There is a new libgstbadallocators-1.0 library in gst-plugins-bad, which may go away again in future releases once the GstPhysMemoryAllocator interface API has been validated by more users and was moved to libgstallocators-1.0 from gst-plugins-base.

GstPlayer

New API has been added to:

  • get the number of audio/video/subtitle streams:

    • gst_player_media_info_get_number_of_streams()
    • gst_player_media_info_get_number_of_video_streams()
    • gst_player_media_info_get_number_of_audio_streams()
    • gst_player_media_info_get_number_of_subtitle_streams()
  • enable accurate seeking: gst_player_config_set_seek_accurate() and gst_player_config_get_seek_accurate()

  • get a snapshot image of the video in RGBx, BGRx, JPEG, PNG or native format: gst_player_get_video_snapshot()

  • selecting use of a specific video sink element (gst_player_video_overlay_video_renderer_new_with_sink())

  • If the environment variable GST_PLAYER_USE_PLAYBIN3 is set, GstPlayer will use the still-experimental playbin3 element and the GstStreams API for playback.

Miscellaneous changes

  • video caps for interlaced video may contain an optional "field-order" field now in the case of interlaced-mode=interleaved to signal that the field order is always the same throughout the stream. This is useful to signal to muxers such as mp4mux. The new field is parsed from/to GstVideoInfo of course.

  • video decoder and video encoder base classes try harder to proxy interlacing, colorimetry and chroma-site related fields in caps properly.

  • The buffer stored in the PROTECTION events is now left unchanged. This is a change of behaviour since 1.8, especially for the mssdemux element which used to decode the base64 parsed data wrapped in the protection events emitted by the demuxer.

  • PROTECTION events can now be injected into the pipeline from the application; source elements deriving from GstBaseSrc will forward those downstream now.

  • The DASH demuxer is now correctly parsing the MSPR-2.0 ContentProtection nodes and emits Protection events accordingly. Applications relying on those events might need to decode the base64 data stored in the event buffer before using it.

  • The registry can now also be disabled by setting the environment variable GST_REGISTRY_DISABLE=yes, with similar effect as the GST_DISABLE_REGISTRY compile time switch.

  • Seeking performance with gstreamer-vaapi based decoders was improved. It would recreate the decoder and surfaces on every seek which can be quite slow.

  • more robust handling of input caps changes in videoaggregator-based elements such as compositor.

  • Lots of adaptive streaming-related fixes across the board (DASH, MSS, HLS). Also:

    • mssdemux, the Microsoft Smooth Streaming demuxer, has seen various fixes for live streams, duration reporting and seeking.

    • The DASH manifest parser now extracts MS PlayReady ContentProtection objects from manifests and sends them downstream as PROTECTION events. It also supports multiple Period elements in external xml now.

  • gst-libav was updated to ffmpeg 3.3 but should still work with any 3.x version.

  • GstEncodingProfile has been generally enhanced so it can, for example, be used to get possible profiles for a given file extension. It is now possible to define profiles based on element factory names or using a path to a .gep file containing a serialized profile.

  • audioconvert can now do endianness conversion in-place. All other conversions still require a copy, but e.g. sign conversion and a few others could also be implemented in-place now.

  • The new, experimental playbin3 and urisourcebin elements got many bugfixes and improvements and should generally be closer to a full replacement of the old elements.

  • interleave now supports > 64 channels.

  • OpenCV elements, grabcut and retinex has been ported to use GstOpencvVideoFilter base class, increasing code reuse and fixing buffer map/unmap issues. Redundant copie of images has been removed in edgedetect, cvlaplace and cvsobel. This comes with various cleanup and Meson support.

OpenGL integration

  • As usual the GStreamer OpenGL integration library has seen numerous fixes and performance improvements all over the place, and is hopefully ready now to become API stable and be moved to gst-plugins-base during the 1.14 release cycle.

  • The GStreamer OpenGL integration layer has also gained support for the Vivante EGL FB windowing system, which improves performance on platforms such as Freescale iMX.6 for those who are stuck with the proprietary driver. The qmlglsink element also supports this now if Qt is used with eglfs or wayland backend, and it works in conjunction with gstreamer-imx of course.

  • various qmlglsrc improvements

Tracing framework and debugging improvements

  • New tracing hooks have been added to track GstMiniObject and GstObject ref/unref operations.

  • The memory leaks tracer can optionally use this to retrieve stack traces if enabled with e.g. GST_TRACERS=leaks(filters="GstEvent,GstMessage",stack-traces-flags=full)

  • The GST_DEBUG_FILE environment variable, which can be used to write the debug log output to a file instead of printing it to stderr, can now contain a name pattern, which is useful for automated testing and continuous integration systems. The following format specifiers are supported:

    • %p: will be replaced with the PID
    • %r: will be replaced with a random number, which is useful for instance when running two processes with the same PID but in different containers.

Tools

  • gst-inspect-1.0 can now list elements by type with the new --types command-line option, e.g. gst-inspect-1.0 --types=Audio/Encoder will show a list of audio encoders.

  • gst-launch-1.0 and gst_parse_launch() have gained a new operator (:) that allows linking all pads between two elements. This is useful in cases where the exact number of pads or type of pads is not known beforehand, such as in the uridecodebin : encodebin scenario, for example. In this case, multiple links will be created if the encodebin has multiple profiles compatible with the output of uridecodebin.

  • gst-device-monitor-1.0 now shows a gst-launch-1.0 snippet for each device that shows how to make use of it in a gst-launch-1.0 pipeline string.

GStreamer RTSP server

  • The RTSP server now also supports Digest authentication in addition to Basic authentication.

  • The GstRTSPClient class has gained a pre-*-request signal and virtual method for each client request type, emitted in the beginning of each rtsp request. These signals or virtual methods let the application validate the requests, configure the media/stream in a certain way and also generate error status codes in case of an error or a bad request.

GStreamer VAAPI

  • GstVaapiDisplay now inherits from GstObject, thus the VA display logging messages are better and tracing the context sharing is more readable.

  • When uploading raw images into a VA surfaces now VADeriveImages are tried fist, improving the upload performance, if it is possible.

  • The decoders and the post-processor now can push dmabuf-based buffers to downstream under certain conditions. For example:

    GST_GL_PLATFORM=egl gst-play-1.0 video-sample.mkv --videosink=glimagesink

  • Refactored the wrapping of VA surface into gstreamer memory, adding lock when mapping and unmapping, and many other fixes.

  • Now vaapidecodebin loads vaapipostproc dynamically. It is possible to avoid it usage with the environment variable GST_VAAPI_DISABLE_VPP=1.

  • Regarding encoders: they have primary rank again, since they can discover, in run-time, the color formats they can use for upstream raw buffers and caps renegotiation is now possible. Also the encoders push encoding info downstream via tags.

  • About specific encoders: added constant bit-rate encoding mode for VP8 and H265 encoder handles P010_10LE color format.

  • Regarding decoders, flush operation has been improved, now the internal VA encoder is not recreated at each flush. Also there are several improvements in the handling of H264 and H265 streams.

  • VAAPI plugins try to create their on GstGL context (when available) if they cannot find it in the pipeline, to figure out what type of VA Display they should create.

  • Regarding vaapisink for X11, if the backend reports that it is unable to render correctly the current color format, an internal VA post-processor, is instantiated (if available) and converts the color format.

GStreamer Editing Services and NLE

  • Enhanced auto transition behaviour

  • Fix some races in nlecomposition

  • Allow building with msvc

  • Added a UNIX manpage for ges-launch

  • API changes:

    • Added ges_deinit (allowing the leak tracer to work properly)
    • Added ges_layer_get_clips_in_interval
    • Finally hide internal symbols that should never have been exposed

GStreamer validate

  • Port gst-validate-launcher to python 3

  • gst-validate-launcher now checks if blacklisted bugs have been fixed on bugzilla and errors out if it is the case

  • Allow building with msvc

  • Add ability for the launcher to run GStreamer unit tests

  • Added a way to activate the leaks tracer on our tests and fix leaks

  • Make the http server multithreaded

  • New testsuite for running various test scenarios on the DASH-IF test vectors

GStreamer Python Bindings

  • Overrides has been added for IntRange, Int64Range, DoubleRange, FractionRange, Array and List. This finally enables Python programmers to fully read and write GstCaps objects.

Build and Dependencies

  • Meson build files are now disted in tarballs, for jhbuild and so distro packagers can start using it. Note that the Meson-based build system is not 100% feature-equivalent with the autotools-based one yet.

  • Some plugin filenames have been changed to match the plugin names: for example the file name of the encoding plugin in gst-plugins-base containing the encodebin element was libgstencodebin.so and has been changed to libgstencoding.so. This affects only a handful of plugins across modules.

    Developers who install GStreamer from source and just do make install after updating the source code, without doing make uninstall first, will have to manually remove the old installed plugin files from the installation prefix, or they will get 'Cannot register existing type' critical warnings.

  • Most of the docbook-based documentation (FAQ, Application Development Manual, Plugin Writer's Guide, design documents) has been converted to markdown and moved into a new gst-docs module. The gtk-doc library API references and the plugins documentation are still built as part of the source modules though.

  • GStreamer core now optionally uses libunwind and libdw to generate backtraces. This is useful for tracer plugins used during debugging and development.

  • There is a new libgstbadallocators-1.0 library in gst-plugins-bad (which may go away again in future releases once the GstPhysMemoryAllocator interface API has been validated by more users).

  • gst-omx and gstreamer-vaapi modules can now also be built using the Meson build system.

  • The qtkitvideosrc element for macOS was removed. The API is deprecated since 10.9 and it wasn't shipped in the binaries since a few releases.

Platform-specific improvements

Android

  • androidmedia: add support for VP9 video decoding/encoding and Opus audio decoding (where supported)

OS/X and iOS

  • avfvideosrc, which represents an iPhone camera or, on a Mac, a screencapture session, so far allowed you to select an input device by device index only. New API adds the ability to select the position (front or back facing) and device-type (wide angle, telephoto, etc.). Furthermore, you can now also specify the orientation (portrait, landscape, etc.) of the videostream.

Windows

  • dx9screencapsrc can now optionally also capture the cursor.

Contributors

Aleix Conchillo Flaque, Alejandro G. Castro, Aleksandr Slobodeniuk, Alexandru Băluț, Alex Ashley, Andre McCurdy, Andrew, Anton Eliasson, Antonio Ospite, Arnaud Vrac, Arun Raghavan, Aurélien Zanelli, Axel Menzel, Benjamin Otte, Branko Subasic, Brendan Shanks, Carl Karsten, Carlos Rafael Giani, ChangBok Chae, Chris Bass, Christian Schaller, christophecvr, Claudio Saavedra, Corentin Noël, Dag Gullberg, Daniel Garbanzo, Daniel Shahaf, David Evans, David Schleef, David Warman, Dominique Leuenberger, Dongil Park, Douglas Bagnall, Edgard Lima, Edward Hervey, Emeric Grange, Enrico Jorns, Enrique Ocaña González, Evan Nemerson, Fabian Orccon, Fabien Dessenne, Fabrice Bellet, Florent Thiéry, Florian Zwoch, Francisco Velazquez, Frédéric Dalleau, Garima Gaur, Gaurav Gupta, George Kiagiadakis, Georg Lippitsch, Göran Jönsson, Graham Leggett, Guillaume Desmottes, Gurkirpal Singh, Haihua Hu, Hanno Boeck, Havard Graff, Heekyoung Seo, hoonhee.lee, Hyunjun Ko, Imre Eörs, Iñaki García Etxebarria, Jagadish, Jagyum Koo, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), Jan Schmidt, Jean-Christophe Trotin, Jochen Henneberg, Jonas Holmberg, Joris Valette, Josep Torra, Juan Pablo Ugarte, Julien Isorce, Jürgen Sachs, Koop Mast, Kseniia Vasilchuk, Lars Wendler, leigh123linux@googlemail.com, Luis de Bethencourt, Lyon Wang, Marcin Kolny, Marinus Schraal, Mark Nauwelaerts, Mathieu Duponchelle, Matthew Waters, Matt Staples, Michael Dutka, Michael Olbrich, Michael Smith, Michael Tretter, Miguel París Díaz, namanyadav12, Neha Arora, Nick Kallen, Nicola Murino, Nicolas Dechesne, Nicolas Dufresne, Nicolas Huet, Nirbheek Chauhan, Ole André Vadla Ravnås, Olivier Crête, Patricia Muscalu, Peter Korsgaard, Peter Seiderer, Petr Kulhavy, Philippe Normand, Philippe Renon, Philipp Zabel, Rahul Bedarkar, Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado, Rico Tzschichholz, Руслан Ижбулатов, Samuel Maroy, Santiago Carot-Nemesio, Scott D Phillips, Sean DuBois, Sebastian Dröge, Sergey Borovkov, Seungha Yang, shakin chou, Song Bing, Søren Juul, Sreerenj Balachandran, Stefan Kost, Stefan Sauer, Stepan Salenikovich, Stian Selnes, Stuart Weaver, suhas2go, Thiago Santos, Thibault Saunier, Thomas Bluemel, Thomas Petazzoni, Tim-Philipp Müller, Ting-Wei Lan, Tobias Mueller, Todor Tomov, Tomasz Zajac, Ulf Olsson, Ursula Maplehurst, Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Victor Toso, Vincent Penquerc'h, Vineeth TM, Vinod Kesti, Vitor Massaru Iha, Vivia Nikolaidou, WeiChungChang, William Manley, Wim Taymans, Wojciech Przybyl, Wonchul Lee, Xavier Claessens, Yasushi SHOJI

... and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent suggestions or helped testing.

Bugs fixed in 1.12

More than 635 bugs have been fixed during the development of 1.12.

This list does not include issues that have been cherry-picked into the stable 1.10 branch and fixed there as well, all fixes that ended up in the 1.10 branch are also included in 1.12.

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 1.12 branch

After the 1.12.0 release there will be several 1.12.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 1.12.x bug-fix releases will be made from the git 1.12 branch, which is a stable branch.

1.12.0

1.12.0 was released on 4th May 2017.

1.12.1

The first 1.12 bug-fix release (1.12.1) was released on 20 June 2017. This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to update from 1.12.x.

Major bugfixes in 1.12.1

  • Various fixes for crashes, assertions, deadlocks and memory leaks
  • Fix for regression when seeking to the end of ASF files
  • Fix for regression in (raw)videoparse that caused it to omit video metadata
  • Fix for regression in discoverer that made it show more streams than actually available
  • Numerous bugfixes to the adaptive demuxer base class and the DASH demuxer
  • Various playbin3/urisourcebin related bugfixes
  • Vivante DirectVIV (imx6) texture uploader works with single-plane (e.g. RGB) video formats now
  • Intel Media SDK encoder now outputs valid PTS and keyframe flags
  • OpenJPEG2000 plugin can be loaded again on MacOS and correctly displays 8 bit RGB images now
  • Fixes to DirectSound source/sink for high CPU usage and wrong latency/buffer size calculations
  • gst-libav was updated to ffmpeg n3.3.2
  • ... and many, many more!

For a full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. Note that this is not the full list of changes. For the full list of changes please refer to the GIT logs or ChangeLogs of the particular modules.

1.12.2

The second 1.12 bug-fix release (1.12.2) was released on 14 July 2017. This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to update from 1.12.x.

Major bugfixes in 1.12.2

  • Various fixes for crashes, assertions, deadlocks and memory leaks
  • Regression fix for playback of live HLS streams
  • Regression fix for crash when playing back a tunneled RTSP stream
  • Regression fix for playback of RLE animations in MOV containers
  • Regression fix for RTP GSM payloading producing corrupted output
  • Major bugfixes to the MXF demuxer, mostly related to seeking and fixes to the frame reordering handling in the MXF muxer and demuxer
  • Fix for playback of mono streams on MacOS
  • More fixes for index handling of ASF containers
  • Various fixes to adaptivedemux, DASH and HLS demuxers
  • Fix deadlock in gstreamer-editing-services during class initialization
  • ... and many, many more!

For a full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. Note that this is not the full list of changes. For the full list of changes please refer to the GIT logs or ChangeLogs of the particular modules.

1.12.3

The third 1.12 bug-fix release (1.12.3) was released on 18 September 2017. This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to update from 1.12.x.

Major bugfixes in 1.12.3

  • Fix for infinite recursion on buffer free in v4l2
  • Fix for glimagesink crash on macOS when used via autovideosink
  • Fix for huge overhead in matroskamux caused by writing one Cluster per audio-frame in audio-only streams. Also use SimpleBlocks for Opus and other audio codecs, which works around a bug in VLC that prevented Opus streams to be played and decreases overhead even more
  • Fix for flushing seeks in rtpmsrc always causing an error
  • Fix for timestamp overflows in calculations in audio encoder base class
  • Fix for RTP h265 depayloader marking P-frames as I-frames
  • Fix for long connection delays of clients in RTSP server
  • Fixes for event handling in queue and queue2 elements, and updates to buffering levels on NOT_LINKED streams
  • Various fixes to event and buffering handling in decodebin3/playbin3
  • Various fixes for memory leaks, deadlocks and crashes in all modules
  • ... and many, many more!

For a full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. Note that this is not the full list of changes. For the full list of changes please refer to the GIT logs or ChangeLogs of the particular modules.

1.12.4

The fourth 1.12 bug-fix release (1.12.4) was released on 7 December 2017. This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to update from 1.12.x.

Major bugfixes in 1.12.4

  • Dozens of fixes for various issues detected with the help of Google's OSS-Fuzz project: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz Details to be found there in the bug tracker
  • Performance regressions with registering debug categories after gst_init() were fixed
  • Regression with seeking back to 0 in souphttpsrc was fixed
  • Regression with header rewriting in flacparse was fixed
  • Regression with playbin/playsink leaking sinks was fixed
  • Inconsistencies with DROPPED/HANDLED handling in pad probe handlers are fixed
  • gst_bin_iterate_sorted() always returns sources last now, as documented
  • gst_query_writable_structure() will never return NULL, for consistency with events
  • Removal of metas from gst_buffer_meta_foreach() works correctly now
  • OpenJPEG plugin builds with OpenJPEG >= 2.3
  • CDIO plugin builds with CDIO >= 1.0
  • gstreamer-vaapi works correctly with libva 1.0
  • gst-libav was updated to ffmpeg 3.3.5
  • Various fixes for memory leaks, deadlocks and crashes in all modules
  • ... and many, many more!

For a full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. Note that this is not the full list of changes. For the full list of changes please refer to the GIT logs or ChangeLogs of the particular modules.

1.12.5

The fifth (and likely last) 1.12 bug-fix release (1.12.5) was released on 28 March 2018. This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to update from 1.12.x.

The 1.12 series has now been superseded by the 1.14 stable release series, and users should upgrade at their earliest convenience.

Bugs fixed in 1.12.5

  • pad: fix some stream deactivation deadlocks/races
  • registrychunks: don't read from unaligned memory when loading registry
  • ptp: fix build failure with #undef USE_MEASUREMENT_FILTERING
  • downloadbuffer: Don't hold the mutex while posting the download-complete message
  • playbin3: Fix accessing invalid index in GstStream when received select-stream event
  • id3v2: re-fix handling of ID3 v2.4 tags with extended headers
  • audio: fix handling of U32BE format
  • videodecoder: Reset QoS time after pushing segment. This fixes playbin gapless playback with videos.
  • subparse: push out of last chunk of text if last line has no newline
  • aacparse: When parsing raw input, accept frames of any size. This fixes handling of encoded silence.
  • splitmuxsrc: Improve not-linked handling.
  • rtspsrc: also proxy multicast-iface property to RTCP udpsrc
  • flacdec: flush flac decoder on lost sync, so that it can re-sync.
  • matroskamux: Only mark new clusters as keyframe if they start on a keyframe or we're muxing only audio
  • matroskamux: Clip maximum cluster duration to the maximum possible value
  • h264parse: reset internal 'state' variable properly
  • x264enc: fix build with newer x264 with support for multiple bit depths
  • x265enc: Fix tagging of keyframes on output buffers
  • glimagesink: Correct PAR in output caps when transforming
  • vtdec: destroy and create the GL context on start()/stop(), fixing a refcount loop
  • player: fix criticals when reading info/track properties that are NULL
  • lv2: fix inverted boolean properties
  • rtponviftimestamp: fix state change function init/reset, fixing memory corruption or leaks on shutdown
  • libav: some build issues fixes
  • rtsp-server: Place netaddress meta on packets received via TCP. Fixes keep-alive via RTCP in TCP interleaved mode.
  • rtsp-server: gi annotation fixes
  • gst-libav: internal ffmpeg copy was updated to ffmpeg 3.3.6
  • Various fixes for memory leaks, deadlocks and crashes in all modules
  • ... and many, many more!

For a full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. Note that this is not the full list of changes. For the full list of changes please refer to the GIT logs or ChangeLogs of the particular modules.

Known Issues

  • The webrtcdsp element is currently not shipped as part of the Windows binary packages due to a build system issue.

Schedule for 1.14

GStreamer 1.14.0 was released on 19 March 2018 and supersedes the 1.12.x series.

It is backwards-compatible to the stable 1.12, 1.10, 1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0 release series.


These release notes have been prepared by Olivier Crête, Sebastian Dröge, Nicolas Dufresne, Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Tim-Philipp Müller, Philippe Normand and Thibault Saunier.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0


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