RELEASE: GStreamer VA-API Plugins 0.6.1

[Víctor M. Jáquez L.]

The gstreamer-vaapi team is pleased to announce the availability
of the 0.6.1 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, VP8
and HEVC is supported; and video encoding in MPEG-2, H.264 AVC, H.264 MVC,
JPEG, VP8 and HEVC format is supported.

Backends are available for X11, GLX, EGL, Wayland and raw DRM for headless
pipelines.

This release works in GStreamer 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6.  It purpose if to add a
couple of important fixes for bugs reported.

== Source Code ==

* Git repository:
  <https://github.com/01org/gstreamer-vaapi>

* Source tarballs:
  <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/gstreamer-vaapi/>
  5b4a74137fa30da2da73a0aff97760035e24e0fd  gstreamer-vaapi-0.6.1.tar.bz2

== Changes ==

* vaapidecode: simplify copy of GstVideoCodecState
* build: link libgstvaapi_parse against codec parser (bug #754845)
* decoder: h264: initialize PPS's slice_group_id (bug #754845)
* vaapidecode: proper numerator and denominator for forced latency framerate
  (bug #755040)
* vaapidecode: renegotiate if caps are not equal (bug #750835)
* vaapidecode: Always keep a copy of input codec state (bug #753914)
* debian: add yasm as build dependency
* debian: remove --with-gstreamer-api option (bug #753618)
* vaapidecode: don't lost GLTextureUpload on seek (bug #752929)
* plugins: don't use gst_pad_get_allowed_caps() (bug #752558)

== 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 ==

Lim Siew Hoon, Mark Nauwelaerts, Sreerenj Balachandran and Victor Jaquez.


-- 
Regards,

vmjl
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