GStreamer 1.12 Is On Approach With New Features, Wayland Zero-Copy Playback | Linux Today

GStreamer 1.12 Is On Approach With New Features, Wayland Zero-Copy Playback

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Michael Larabel
Apr 21, 2017

GStreamer 1.12.0 will soon be released as the latest version of this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework. GStreamer 1.12 is bringing waylandsink DMA-BUF importation support so zero-copy multimedia playback will now work under Wayland. GStreamer 1.12 is also bringing Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder/decoder support, Intel Media SDK support for accelerated video encode/decode on embedded Linux and Windows, OpenCV improvements, CineForm support, and more.

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Michael Larabel

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