The first stable release of GStreamer has been released.

Finally, a few years later, the first stable version of GStreamer was released. What does this give us? I give a free presentation of the main features of the news from the official site.


Version 1.x is targeted at end users. API and ABI are incompatible with versions 0.10.x, however, 1.x can be installed in parallel with 0.10.x and they will not conflict at all. In addition, the official website published tips on porting applications from the previous version.
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Major changes
- improved work with memory due to the transition to a new buffering system
- improved work with metadata has been added - an expandable and consistent binding system to buffers has appeared.
- Improved video and audio capture code
- automatic status re-sending for dynamic sources
- significant optimizations were made in terms of resource consumption, in addition decoding using vdpau and vaapi tools was added
- more efficient distribution of buffers, events and other small objects

- countless other improvements

Finished packages will soon appear in debian sid, fedora 18, ubuntu quantal and other distributions.

Source: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/