GStreamer: What's new ?

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

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)‏

26. Or contact me on christian.schaller@collabora.co.uk http://www.collabora.co.uk Questions?