RELEASE: GStreamer VA-API Plugins 0.5.8

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

gstreamer-vaapi is a collection of GStreamer plugins and helper
libraries that allow hardware accelerated video decoding, video
encoding and video processing through VA-API. Complete support depends
on the underlying hardware. However, video decoding from JPEG, MPEG-2,
MPEG-4:2, H.264 and VC-1 is supported; and video encoding in MPEG-2
and H.264 format is supported. Renderers are available for X11, GLX,
Wayland and raw DRM for headless pipelines.

== Source Code ==

* Git repository:
  <http://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi>

* Source tarballs:
  <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/gstreamer-vaapi/>
  b0756a5941e3ad2d33a94a550eb9fe3ade0c07e6  gstreamer-vaapi-0.5.8.tar.bz2

== Changes ==

* New features:
  - H.264 encoding (requires 2nd Generation Intel Core processors with
Intel HD Graphics or newer)
  - MPEG-2 encoding (requires 3rd Generation Intel Core processors
with Intel HD Graphics or newer)

* Bug reports fixed in this release, and not pertaining to the new features:
  - 706406 : decoder: h264: fix decoding of scaling lists
  - 719947 : decoder: h264: add support for constrained baseline profile
  - 720190 : decoder: h264: fix decoding of BA3_SVA_C.264
  - f.57902 : decoder: h264: improve robustness when packets are missing
  - 712558 : plugins: request GLTextureUpload meta on buffers in the buffer pool
  - 719643 : plugins: fix GLTextureUploadMeta to work with different texture ids
  - 720336 : plugins: implement GLTextureUploadMeta user data copy
  - 721390 : plugins: do not free debug category in finalize method
  - 721859 : plugins: don't apply overlay composition in
GLTextureUpload function
  - 720584 : vaapidecode: fix hang on SIGINT
  - 720608 : vaapidecode: add system memory caps to template caps
  - 719372 : vaapidecode: query downstream caps features like
GLTextureUploadMeta
  - 703271 : vaapisink: expose the raw video formats in static caps template
  - 722244 : vaapisink: fix display initialization in GstVideoOverlay
implementation
  - 722255 : vaapisink: set csc render flags from sinkpad caps
  - 720375 : vaapipostproc: fix support for "sharpen" filter
  - 720376 : vaapipostproc: add support for colorbalance filters
  - 720820 : pkgconfig: plugin dir should use PKG version not API version

== Reporting Bugs ==

* Bugs can be reported in the GNOME Bugzilla system at:
  <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gstreamer-vaapi>

>From the main page, new bugs can be reported through New -> Other ->
gstreamer-vaapi product.

== Contributors ==

This release was brought to you by: Guangxin Xu, Gwenole Beauchesne,
Halley Zhao, Holger Kaelberer, Lionel Landwerlin, Matthieu Bouron,
Sreerenj Balachandran, Wind Yuan. Thanks!