RELEASE: GStreamer VA-API Plugins 0.5.10

[Sreerenj Balachandran]

The gstreamer-vaapi team is pleased to announce the availability
of the 0.5.10 release.

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 AVC, H.264 MVC, VC-1 and VP8 is supported; and video
encoding in MPEG-2, H.264 AVC and H.264 MVC format is supported.
Renderers are available for X11, 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/>
  456d8e8bc9f76e8f16318172d2b61c18e61c7da0  gstreamer-vaapi-0.5.10.tar.bz2

== Changes ==

* Major changes:
  - Add support for DRM Render-Nodes for headless operation
  - Add support for VA surface buffer sharing with DMABUF and GEM handles
  - Add support for v4l2src with io-mode={dmabuf,dmabuf-import}
  - Drop support for VA/GLX specific APIs in libgstvaapi and vaapisink

* Other Changes of interest:
  - Allow for SW decoding fallbacks with unsupported profiles
  - Make vaapipostproc work with SW elements
  - Allow vaapipostproc to integrate with GL downstream elements
  - Add support for high-quality scaling to vaapipostproc ("scale-method=hq")
  - Fix advanced deinterlacing when it is the unique filter applied
  - Add GstColorBalance interface to vaapisink
  - Implement the GstNavigation interface into vaapisink
  - Allow rescaling of X11 window for vaapisink
  - Optimizations to vaapidecode thread handling
  - Add decoding support for h264 interlaced streams with
repeat-first-field (RFF)
  - Fix decoding of h264 interlaced streams in top-field-first order (TFF)
  - Fix deinterlacing from non VA memory buffers
  - Fix clearing of subtitle overlay
  - Fix decoding of UK DVB-T2 streams

* GStreamer support corner:
  - GStreamer >= 1.2-git is the a minimal requirement
  - GStreamer 0.10.x and 1.0.x obsolete, and will be removed in a future release

== 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: Changzhi Wei, Gwenole Beauchesne,
Holger Kaelberer, Michael Olbrich, Sebastian Dröge, Simon Farnsworth,
Sreerenj Balachandran, Víctor Manuel Jáquez, Wind Yuan. Thanks!

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Regards,

Sreerenj Balachandran
Intel Open Source Technology Center