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GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Multimedia on 26 February 2026 at 05:30 AM EST. Add A Comment
Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework.

GStreamer 1.28.1 is mostly about shipping the fixes that have accumulated over the past month but there are also some minor new features found in today's update:

- A new Whisper-based Speech To Text transcription element.

- Fix scaling and resizing the UIView On EAGL and Vulkan.

- GStreamer now has a sub-project for providing LunarG MoltenVK SDK on macOS.

- GStreamer's Video 4 Linux 2 code now can handle stateful AV1 V4L2 decoders.

- Apple Video Toolbox decoder and encoder fixes as well as patches for tvOS support.

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Downloads and more details on GStreamer 1.28.1 via FreeDesktop.org.

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