GStreamer 1.6 Open Source Multimedia Backend Gets Closer to Release, Here's What's New | Linux Today

GStreamer 1.6 Open Source Multimedia Backend Gets Closer to Release, Here’s What’s New

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Marius Nestor
Aug 24, 2015

Among the many great new features that will arrive in GStreamer 1.6, we can mention performance improvements for Caps negotiations, the addition of the nvenc element for recent NVIDIA GPUs, improvements to GtkGLSink, use of libav decoders for direct rendering, use of Phabricator for bug and code tracking, as well as improvements to RTP depayloadres and payloaders.

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Marius Nestor

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