GStreamer 1.14 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GStreamer 1.14 Release Candidate 1 Arrives

The first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.14 multimedia framework is now available for testing. GStreamer 1.14 is now feature-frozen and the official release is expected soon...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GStreamer-1.14-RC1-Released

[tildearrow]

Typo:

LAME/mpg123/twolane encoders/decoders are promoted to good,

(twolame)

[jacob]

Does it support AV1 encoding or is it decoding-only?

[uid313]

How secure (or insecure) is GStreamer?

[cybertraveler]

How secure (or insecure) is GStreamer?

This is exactly what I was wondering. A library & framework that purely does media decoding/encoding is dangerous enough if not properly sandboxed, but they've tacked all this networking (WebRTC) stuff onto it too making it even more potentially dangerous.

[grok]

Typo:



(twolame)

Was MP2 audio *still* patented till not long ago? These days there must be plenty devs that weren't born when MP2 came out.

[DanL]

Was MP2 audio *still* patented till not long ago?

The last patents just expired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...MPEG-2_patents

[cybertraveler]

Was MP2 audio *still* patented till not long ago? These days there must be plenty devs that weren't born when MP2 came out.

The mp3 patents never seemed to effect me. I've always been able to easily get an Open Source mp3 decoder/encoder codec on my gnu/linux systems and whenever I downloaded music via p2p services, it was almost always mp3.

Somewhat ironically, now that mp3 patents have expired, I no longer use mp3 much as it's inferior to AAC and opus.

[StefanBruens]

The last patents just expired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...MPEG-2_patents

MP2 (as encoded by twolame) != MPEG-2, but MP2 == MPEG-1 Part 3 Layer II

MPEG-1 Part-3 was often used as audio codec for e.g. DVDs, which uses the MPEG-2 Part 2 Video codec, leading to confusion.
MPEG-2 Part-3 is also a backwards compatible extension of MPEG-1 Part 3.
MPEG-1 Part-3 Layer II is a subset of Layer III (aka MP3)

[grok]

I think this MPEG-1 Part-3 Layer II, aka MPEG-1 Audio Layer II can be used as a soundtrack in DVD video?

okay, wikipedia solved that little "mystery" for me

All DVD-Video players in PAL countries contain stereo MP2 decoders, making MP2 a possible competitor to Dolby Digital in these markets. DVD-Video players in NTSC countries are not required to decode MP2 audio, although most do. While some DVD recorders store audio in MP2 and many consumer-authored DVDs use the format, commercial DVDs with MP2 soundtracks are rare.

MP2 is a simpler, older, worse variant of mp3 i.e. it sucks at 112 or 128 kbps ; but is good at very high bitrate (max is 384 kbps). Smaller frame size than MP3 and AAC.