GStreamer 1.10 Open-Source Multimedia Framework Supports Vulkan API on Wayland

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

It appears that the first day of November 2016 was fruitful for the open source ecosystem, as many major software releases and GNU/Linux distributions have landed, including the GStreamer 1.10 multimedia framework.

GStreamer is used by default in numerous Linux-based operating systems to link together a wide range of media processing solutions. Basically, it’s a set of libraries and plugins that are used by certain multimedia apps for playing music or video streams on a GNU/Linux distro. GStreamer 1.10 is now the latest stable and most advanced version.

Prominent new features include implementation of Vulkan API support on the next-generation Wayland display server, OpenGL and OpenGL ES improvements, an experimental new Meson-based build system, as well as the addition of brand new gst-docs and gst-examples modules.

“A new gst-docs module has been created, and we are in the process of moving our documentation to a Markdown-based format for easier maintenance and u… (read more)

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