GStreamer 1.12 Multimedia Framework to Support Intel's Media SDK and CineForm | Linux Today

GStreamer 1.12 Multimedia Framework to Support Intel’s Media SDK and CineForm

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Marius Nestor
Apr 25, 2017

Collabora made several contributions to the widely-used open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework, and now that many of you already managed to get an early taste of the new features coming with the GStreamer 1.12 release during the RC (Release Candidate) testing phase, let’s take a look at the upcoming changes. The biggest new feature of GStreamer 1.12 appears to be support for Intel’s Media SDK (Software Development Kit), which was made open source by the famous company, allowing anyone to contribute to its code and improve the cross-platform API (Application Programming Interface).

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Marius Nestor

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