- Update to version 1.4.0:
+ Various API additions.
+ New plugins and elements:
- v4l2videodec element for accessing hardware codecs on
platforms that make them accessible via V4L2.
- New downloadbuffer element that replaces the download
buffering feature of queue2.
- rtpstreampay and rtpstreamdepay elements for transmitting RTP
packets over a stream API (e.g. TCP) according to RFC 4571.
- rtprtx elements for standard compliant implementation of
retransmissions, integrated into the rtpmanager plugin.
- audiomixer element that mixes multiple audio streams together
into a single one while keeping synchronization.
- OpenNI2 plugin for 3D cameras like the Kinect camera.
- OpenEXR plugin for decoding high-dynamic-range EXR images.
- curlsshsink and curlsftpsink to write files via SSH/SFTP.
- videosignal, ivfparse and sndfile plugins ported from 0.10.
- avfvideosrc, vtdec and other elements were ported from 0.10
and are available on OS X and iOS now.
+ Other changes:
- gst-libav now uses libav 10.1, and gained support for
H265/HEVC.
- Support for hardware codecs and special memory types has been
improved with bugfixes and feature additions in various
plugins and base classes.
- Various bugfixes and improvements to buffering in queue2 and
multiqueue elements.
- dvbsrc supports more delivery mechanisms and other features
now, including DVB S2 and T2 support.
- The MPEGTS library has support for many more descriptors.