Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.6.0

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!

This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new features, bug fixes and other improvements.

See /releases/1.6/ for the full list of changes.

This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin, decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer. This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for their development. This module contains elements for, among others:

• device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
• containers: ogg
• codecs: vorbis, theora
• text: textoverlay, subparse
• sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
• network: tcp
• typefind functions
• audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
• visualisation: libvisual
• video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
• high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
• libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video

gst-plugins-good

contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license

gst-plugins-ugly

contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for distributors

gst-plugins-bad

contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation and/or unit tests

gst-libav

contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)