TL;DR GStreamer MediaFoundation video encoders (H.264, HEVC, and VP9 if supported by GPU) gained the ability to accept Direct3D11 textures, which will bring noticeable performance improvements As of the GStreamer 1.18 release, hardware accelerated Direct3D11/DXVA video decoding and MediaFoundation based video encoding features were landed. Those native Windows video APIs can…

The long-awaited GStreamer 1.18 has finally been released! GStreamer 1.18 includes various exciting features especially new Windows plugins: Direct3D11, Media Foundation, UWP support, DXGI desktop capture and rewrite of the WASAPI audio plugin using Windows 10 APIs. In this blog post, I’d like to briefly talk about the future work…

The Microsoft Media Foundation plugin has finally landed as part of GStreamer 1.17! Currently it supports the following features: Video capture from webcam (and UWP support) H.264/HEVC/VP9 video encoding AAC/MP3 audio encoding NOTE : Strictly speaking, the UWP video capture implementation is not part of the Media Foundation API. The…

DXVA2 based hardware accelerated decoding is now supported on Windows, as of GStreamer 1.17. This is a list of supported codecs for now H.264 (d3d11h264dec) HEVC (d3d11h265dec) VP9 (d3d11vp9dec) VP8 (d3d11vp8dec) What should I do to use them? No special steps or dependencies are required to build this new element indeed. The above listed new decoder elements…