GStreamer 1.16 Is Nearly Ready With AV1 For Matroska/MP4 Containers, V4L HEVC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GStreamer 1.16 Is Nearly Ready With AV1 For Matroska/MP4 Containers, V4L HEVC

The GStreamer 1.16 cycle is slowly coming to an end and today marks the availability of the release candidate for this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GStreamer-1.16-RC1

[wswartzendruber]

AV1 is marching on. Good.

[jacob]

This looks like a great release.

[johanb]

If you want to know what has been in development since the 1.14 release, the presentations from last years GStreamer conference are great.

https://gstconf.ubicast.tv/channels/#gstreamer-conference-2018

[nh2_]

For those looking for a gstreamer build that has as many plugins as possible enabled (in many distributions, many of them are not available), I've been working on a rework of how gstreamer is built in Nix (which you can use on any distro), which will be merged quickly after 1.16 is released:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54398

The switch to Meson helped a lot with that; quoting:

To ease maintainability and to ensure users will find the expected features available (and when not, will see in the nix file why not), we now pass the `-Dauto_features=enabled` Meson build flag to all gstreamer builds, which sets all `auto` dependencies to `enabled`, and we explicitly disable those that we can't build .

This is in contrast to autoconf, where you can't easily do that (to my knowledge).

[Vistaus]

This is in contrast to autoconf, where you can't easily do that (to my knowledge).

I suspect the Meson haters are going to prove you wrong

[nh2_]

I suspect the Meson haters are going to prove you wrong

I'd find that cool, because then the packager life could be improved quite a bit.

[PFee]

GStreamer 1.16 has now been released (19 April 2019).

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/

It's included in Fedora 30.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=14455