GStreamer: What's new ?

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GStreamerWhat's new ?

• Christian F.K. Schaller (christian.schaller_at_collab
  ora.co.uk)?

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Summary

• Current status
• What's new
• What's being worked on

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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

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GStreamer

• Generic Multimedia Framework
• LGPL licensed core
• De-facto standard
• Cross Platform

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Licensing

• Trying to make things easy
• Plugins-modules Base, Good, Bad, Ugly

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GStreamer Design

• Pipeline based design
• Close to 200 plugins available
• Not just playback

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Core what's new

• RTP design
• Latency API
• Cross-platform support
• (Network) buffering support

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Playbin2

• Autoplugger
• Encoded output
• Improved HD support
• Decodebin2
• Faster, more versatile, better memory usage

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RTP Support

• Playbin2 with full RTSP support
• RTP stack popular (Axis, Tandberg)?
• Windows Media, Real Media, MPEG, Ogg

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Intelligent Download Buffer

• Visual feedback of download progress
• Intelligent pausing if network can not keep up
• Quicktime/YouTube style

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Qtopia Support

• Qt and Qtopia integrated support through Phonon
• Provides subset of GStreamer functionality

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OpenMax Support

• GStreamer Integration with OpenMax IL
• Next talk in this room on this subject

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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

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Dirac Video

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

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DVB Support

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

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DVB Support
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Browser Support

• HTML5
• WebKit
• Firefox

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Improved Platform Support

• Solaris (OSSv4)?
• Windows (native codec loading)?
• MacOSX (native codec loading)?

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DLNA

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

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Codecs

• Lots of available codec implementations for
  GStreamer
• Open Source
• OpenMax GstOpenMax
• Intel IPP
• TI DaVinci
• Fluendo
• Collabora (Integration)?

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Farsight2 and Telepathy

• Integrated VOIP and videoconferencing toolkit
• SIP, Gtalk and others
• Many to many
• Collaboration

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Various New Embedded Related Plugins

• Neonhttp, libsoup plugins
• DirectFB support
• HAL plugins
• Mpegparse, mpaudioparse

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Core and -basewhat's coming

• Performance query
• More buffering/network support
• Interlacing support
• Fast metadata typefind
• Plugin presets interface

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QA System

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

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GStreamer and Mobile Platforms

• LiMo
• Access
• GPE
• Maemo
• OpenMoko
• LiPS
• Android (working on it)?

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Questions?

• Or contact me on christian.schaller_at_collabora.co.u
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• http//www.collabora.co.uk