[Libva] RELEASE: GStreamer VA-API Plugins 0.7.0

[Sreerenj]

Hi,

The gstreamer-vaapi team is pleased to announce the availability of the 
0.7.0 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, HEVC and 
VP9 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.

== Source Code ==

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

* Source tarballs:
<http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/gstreamer-vaapi/>
   053a7af120c72fda0b46450c4a94a752abf64a74 gstreamer-vaapi-0.7.0.tar.bz2

== Changes ==
* Major changes:
   - Add VP9 Decoder
   - Many fixes, improvements and optimizations to the HEVC(H265) decoder
   - Better interoperability with different OpenGL platforms and APIs

* Other Changes of interest:
   - Add infrastructure for handling corrupted pictures in h264 decoder
   - Add number of fixes and optimizations to GstContext sharing
   - Enabled Autoplugging of hardware accelerated video postprocessor in 
decodebin/playbin
     via high ranked vaapidecodebin
   - Allow vaapi elements to connect with opengl3 downstream elements
   - Fix segfault in vaapipostproc
   - Fix seeking while using GLTextureUpload for rendering
   - Ported JPEG decoder to new API/ABI changes in codecparser
   - Removed gstvaapiuploader
   - Fix 0/1 frame-rate handling in encoder
   - Validate chroma sampling according to the VA's RT format in Encoder
   - Number of improvements in vaapi video memory handling
   - More stabilized vaapidecodebin
   - Wayland backend fixes
   - Fix multi-resolution video handling in vaapidecode
   - Adding stereoscopic/multiview upstream API support
   - Fixed fps calculation for for forced latency frame rate
   - Fix caps negotiation for meta:GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta
   - Fixed leaked display instance in vaapidecodebin
   - HEVC Decoder fixes for better conformance and robustness
     + Fix the decoding of dependent slice segment
     + Fix decoding of stream when it has temporal sublayers
     + Added Workaround to recognize wrongly encoded main profile streams
     + Add SEI Header parsing
     + Fix the value assigning for delta_chroma_log2_weight_denom
     + Fix default value assignment of pred_weight_table
     + Fix ChromaOffsetL0/ChromaOffsetL1 calculation
     + Add calculation of WpOffsetHalfRangeC
     + Fix the scaling list scan order
     + Fix the picture addition in dpb() based on spec H265 v3 (04/2015)
     + Fix the dpb_add() based on C.5.2.3
     + Fix flushing of dpb for EOS/EOB nal

* GStreamer support corner:
   - GStreamer >= 1.4 is the minimal requirement
   - GStreamer 1.2.x is obsolete, and will be removed in future releases.
   - GStreamer-VAAPI will get integrated as an upstream component in the 
near future.

== 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: Gwenole Beauchesne, Jan Schmidt,
Lim Siew Hoon, Mark Nauwelaerts, Olivier Crete, Sreerenj Balachandran,
Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal. Thanks!

-- 
Thanks
Sree

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