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GStreamer 1.26.8 Improves HDR Video Playback for the Showtime Video Player
Coming almost a month after GStreamer 1.26.7, the GStreamer 1.26.8 release improves HDR video playback for GNOME’s Showtime video player to no longer show washed-out colours when subtitles are active, and adds Rust support for 32-bit (x86) Linux to the Cerbero package builder.
GStreamer 1.26.8 also adds support for advertising latency based on encoder parameters instead of hard-coding it to 5 frames to the x265 encoder, improves the V4L2 device monitor, improves the performance for elements with many source pads, and adds support for streams that don’t have frequent LOAS configuration to the AAC parser.
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GStreamer 1.26.8 Fixes HDR Color Issues and Improves AV1 and EAC3 Handling
The GStreamer team has released a new bug-fix update, 1.26.8, of its cross-platform open-source multimedia framework for the stable 1.26 series.
One of the most noticeable fixes addresses an issue with washed-out colors in HDR videos when subtitles were active in the Showtime video player. The patch ensures that HDR content now displays accurate color rendering even with subtitle overlays enabled.
The update also brings refinements to AV1 parsing, resolving a duplicated frame issue in frame splitting, as well as improvements in EAC3 datarate calculation and substream writing within the fmp4mux component.