1. Christian F.K. Schaller (christian.schaller@collabora.co.uk)‏
GStreamer: What's new ?
Christian F.K. Schaller

2. Summary
Current status
What's new
What's being worked on

3. Collabora Multimedia
World Leading experts on GStreamer, Telepathy, DLNA, OpenMax and GTK+ Webkit
Global reach with offices in Cambridge UK, Montreal Canada and Barcelona Spain
Established track record with customers such as Nokia and OLPC

4. GStreamer Generic Multimedia Framework LGPL licensed core
De-facto standard
Cross Platform

5. Licensing Trying to make things easy
Plugins-modules: Base, Good, Bad, Ugly

6. GStreamer Design Pipeline based design Close to 200 plugins available
Not just playback

7. Core: what's new RTP design Latency API Cross-platform support
(Network) buffering support

8. Playbin2 Autoplugger Encoded output Improved HD support Decodebin2
Faster, more versatile, better memory usage

9. RTP Support Playbin2 with full RTSP support
RTP stack popular (Axis, Tandberg)‏
Windows Media, Real Media, MPEG, Ogg

10. Intelligent Download Buffer
Visual feedback of download progress
Intelligent pausing if network can not keep up
Quicktime/YouTube style

11. Qtopia Support Qt and Qtopia integrated support through Phonon
Provides subset of GStreamer functionality

12. OpenMax Support GStreamer Integration with OpenMax IL
Next talk in this room on this subject

13. OpenGL support New gst-plugins-gl module
OpenGL based video output (xvimagesink replacement)‏
Push video into Clutter etc.
Enable video processing on the GPU in a GStreamer pipeline
Any OpenGL video filters

14. Dirac Video Encoder and Decoder available for GStreamer
Created by the BBC Research and Innovation
Royalty free codec
Heading for VC-2 standardisation

15. DVB Support DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C tested and confirmed working
ATSC still to be done
Deinterlacing, MHEG, scanning still to be done

16. DVB Support

17. Browser Support
HTML5
WebKit
Firefox

18. Improved Platform Support
Solaris (OSSv4)‏
Windows (native codec loading)‏
MacOSX (native codec loading)‏

19. DLNA Coherence DLNA framework Hoping to soon have working transcoding
Client support components in place

20. Codecs Lots of available codec implementations for GStreamer
Open Source
OpenMax – GstOpenMax
Intel IPP
TI DaVinci
Fluendo
Collabora (Integration)‏

21. Farsight2 and Telepathy
Integrated VOIP and videoconferencing toolkit
SIP, Gtalk and others
Many to many
Collaboration

22. Various New Embedded Related Plugins
Neonhttp, libsoup plugins
DirectFB support
HAL plugins
Mpegparse, mpaudioparse

23. Core and -base: what's coming
Performance query
More buffering/network support
Interlacing support
Fast metadata typefind
Plugin presets interface

24. QA System New advanced QA system under development
Will let you automatically run extensive automated tests to reduce risk of regressions

25. GStreamer and Mobile Platforms
LiMo
Access
GPE
Maemo
OpenMoko
LiPS
Android (working on it)‏

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