GStreamer 1.8 released

Version 1.8 of the GStreamer multimedia framework is now available. New is support for hardware-accelerated zero-copy video decoding on Android, a new tracing system that will support more advanced debugging tools, initial support for the Vulkan API, and the debut of the new, simplified GstPlayer playback API (which we looked at in October). There are many other additions and improvement; see the release notes for full details.