gst-vaapi NEWS -- summary of changes.  2012-08-DD
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Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Intel Corporation
Copyright (C) 2011 Collabora

Version 0.4.0 - DD.Aug.2012
* Add support for video rotation
* Add new video display APIs: Wayland and raw DRM for headless pipelines
* Drop FFmpeg-based decoders, only use codecparsers-based ones
* Only reset decoder if meaningful caps changed, e.g. size
* Allocate the minimal number of video surfaces useful for decoding
* Fix vaapisink to scale video down to fit the screen dimensions
* Fix vaapidecode crash when trying to release an inexisten lock (Philip Lorenz)

Version 0.3.8 - 20.Sep.2012
* Disable FFmpeg-based decoders by default
* Add JPEG decoder (based on codecparsers)
* Fix crash when destroying GstVaapiDisplay objects early
* Fix GLX rendering with FBO + texture-from-pixmap (fallback for VA/GLX)
* Fix rendering with EMGD driver when overlay mode is used
* Fix MPEG-2 decoding on Intel Atom platforms with EMGD driver
* Fix release of dangling proxy surfaces when decoder is reset (Philip Lorenz)

Version 0.3.7 - 26.Jun.2012
* Fix vaapidecode to report unsupported codec profiles
* Fix MPEG-2 decoding of streams with extra slice() information
* Map MPEG-2 compatible High profile streams to Main profile
* Map MPEG-4 Simple Scalable profile streams to Advanced Simple (Feng Yuan)
* Fix various MPEG-4 decoding bugs (timestamps, reference frames) (Feng Yuan)
* Don't forcibly resize user provided X windows (Holger Kaelberer)
* Recalculate render rect only if caps are negotiated (Holger Kaelberer)

Version 0.3.6 - 02.Apr.2012
* Add support for decoding MPEG-2 interlaced streams
* Add support for interlaced streams with FFmpeg decoders (Holger Kaelberer)
* Add vaapipostproc element for video postprocessing (e.g. deinterlacing)
* Skip all H.264 Filler Data NALs
* Fix crashes in MPEG-4 decoder (Feng Yuan)
* Fix fallback from MPEG-2 Simple to Main profile
* Improve decoding of misformed MPEG-2 streams (+Feng Yuan)
* Avoid a hang in playbin2 for some MPEG-2 TS streams (Feng Yuan)

Version 0.3.5 - 02.Mar.2012
* Fix H.264 decoding when emulation prevention bytes are detected
* Skip all H.264 Access Unit (AU) NALs (Feng Yuan)
* Fix modification process of H.264 reference picture lists (Feng Yuan)
* Fix MPEG-2 stream size calculation (Sreerenj Balachandran)
* Fix MPEG-2 decoding on Intel Gen with multiple slices per MB line
* Fix crash when downloading/uploading VA images on PowerVR (Cedar Trail)
* Fix double buffer free issues with some VA drivers
* Fix crash when there is no free surface available for decoding
* Skip profiles which have no entrypoints (Halley Zhao)
* Fix minor memory leaks in plug-in elements

Version 0.3.4 - 01.Feb.2012
* Add H.264 decoder (based on codecparsers)
* Add workaround for qtdemux not exposing H.263 profiles (Halley Zhao)
* Alias H.263 Baseline profile to MPEG-4:2 Simple profile (Halley Zhao)
* Use optimized path to submit slice data buffers
* Fix possible memory leak in MPEG-2 decoder
* Fix vaapisink to cap window size to the maximum display size
* Fix MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1 decoders to refcount reference surfaces properly

Version 0.3.3 - 16.Jan.2012
* Add MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and VC-1 decoders (based on codecparsers)
* Add support for GstXOverlay::set_render_rectangle() in vaapisink
* Fix memory leak of GL texture (Nicolas Dufresne)
* Fix vaapisink to automatically fit video to window
* Fix vaapiupload to only set caps on newly created buffers (Nicolas Dufresne)
* Fix gst_vaapi_ensure_display() to honour DISPLAY environment variable

Version 0.3.2 - 06.Jan.2012
* Rename vaapiconvert element to vaapiupload
* Fix vaapiupload from NV12 buffers
* Fix possible leaks of VA surfaces in FFmpeg decoder
* Fix memory leak in vaapiupload initialization function
* Fix possible crash in vaapidecode deinitialization code
* Add vaapidownload element to convert from VA surfaces to YUV pixels

Version 0.3.1 - 16.Dec.2011
* Fix check for supported VA images
* Add support for partial VA image updates
* Add support for new subtitle/overlay infrastructure (Thibault Saunier)
* Add missing video context queries in vaapisink/vaapiconvert (Nicolas Dufresne)

Version 0.3.0 - 09.Dec.2011
* Group all plugins into the same bundle
* Use new XOverlay API (Sreerenj Balachandran)
* Use new GstVideoContext and GstSurfaceBuffer API (Nicolas Dufresne)
* Fix vaapidecode sink caps if decoder is in NULL state (Sreerenj Balachandran)
* Fix auto-plugging and downstream buffer allocation (Nicolas Dufresne)
* Fix crash in VA display init if no VA configs were found (Nicolas Dufresne)

Version 0.2.7 - 07.Dec.2011
* Relicense plugins and tests to LGPL v2.1 (SDS)
* Fix MPEG-2 decoding from TS & PS streams
* Fix build with newer versions of FFmpeg
* Fix vaapiconvert direct-rendering modes
* Fix use of invalid data at the end-of-stream

Version 0.2.6 - 14.Jun.2011
* Fix licensing terms (LGPL v2.1)

Version 0.2.5 - 20.Jul.2010
* Fix build with older VA-API 0.29-sds
* Fix decoding of some H.264 streams. e.g. Ice Age 2 trailer
* Fix VA/GLX support with texture-from-pixmap and GLX version < 1.3

Version 0.2.4 - 18.May.2010
* Fix video rendering rect within an embedder window (Totem)
* Disable GLX rendering when vaapisink uses a foreign X window

Version 0.2.3 - 16.May.2010
* Fix memory leak of encoded buffers
* Fix decoder caps to report codec aliases
* Fix VC-1 decoding through the playbin2 pipeline

Version 0.2.2 - 14.May.2010
* Fix packaging dependencies
* Fix a crash in the FFmpeg decoder on close
* Fix OpenGL texture internal format (Clutter)
* Fix foreign window size for embedding (Totem)

Version 0.2.1 - 12.May.2010
* Fix integration within the playbin2 pipeline
* Fix vaapidecode to expose the HW supported caps only
* Add GstXOverlay interface to vaapisink (Totem media player)

Version 0.2.0 - 05.May.2010
* Relicense gst-libs/ code to LGPL v2.1+
* Add FFmpeg/VAAPI decoder for the new `vaapidecode' element

Version 0.1.2 - 30.Mar.2010
* Add AYUV image format
* Add compatibility with the original VA-API 0.29
* Add OpenGL support through VA/GLX extensions or TFP+FBO fallback

Version 0.1.1 - 23.Mar.2010
* Document public API for libgstvaapi-*.so.*
* Optimize `vaapiconvert' pipeline (direct-rendering)
* Allow `vaapisink` to render videos in fullscreen mode

Version 0.1.0 - 16.Mar.2010
* Initial release