--- title: GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network... description: GStreamer 1.24 has been released after 13 months of development, with contributions from 231 developers and over 3,141 patches. Key highlights include a new... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gstreamer-1-24-new-heights-in-embedded-network-streaming-analytics-57ecbpas1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network streaming & analytics | daily.dev og:description: GStreamer 1.24 has been released after 13 months of development, with contributions from 231 developers and over 3,141 patches. Key highlights include a new... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gstreamer-1-24-new-heights-in-embedded-network-streaming-analytics-57ecbpas1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/57ECBPas1.png og:image:alt: GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network streaming & analytics og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network streaming & analytics **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GStreamer 1.24 has been released after 13 months of development, with contributions from 231 developers and over 3,141 patches. Key highlights include a new W3C Media Source Extensions (MSE) library enabling adaptive streaming without a browser engine, a LiveKit SFU signaller written in Rust for simplified WebRTC use-cases, DRM Dumb allocator improvements for software rendering on GPU-less processors, and a new unixfd plugin enabling zero-copy inter-process buffer transfer (sponsored by Netflix). On the analytics front, the release introduces a machine learning foundation: OnnxInference has been refactored into a generic element compatible with any ONNX model, and a new Analytics-Meta transport mechanism supports multi-level, multi-modal analytics pipelines. V4L2 gains new pixel formats, MediaTek tiling support, and an AV1 stateless decoder. The gst-omx plugin has been retired, and CI improvements now allow v4l2 codec testing in cloud environments using QEMU. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the new Analytics-Meta feature in GStreamer 1.24 and what problem does it solve? Analytics-Meta is a transport mechanism introduced in GStreamer 1.24 for carrying analytics results through pipelines. It is memory-efficient and designed to describe relationships between analytics results, supporting heterogeneous pipelines that combine computer vision and ML, multi-level scenarios with multiple ML models, and generic result consumption such as analytics overlay and Onvif serialization. It relies on a core GStreamer change allowing metadata re-use. _Engineers building video analytics pipelines track GStreamer analytics developments on daily.dev._ ### What changed with OnnxInference in GStreamer 1.24 compared to the previous onnxobjectdetector? OnnxInference in GStreamer 1.24 is a major refactor of the former onnxobjectdetector, now made generic and compatible with any ONNX model rather than being tied to object detection. Inference and tensor-decoding are separated: onnxinference handles inference generically, while model-specific decoding is handled by independent elements like ssdobjectdetector. It supports multiple backends via ONNX Runtime for improved performance. _Developers integrating ML inference into GStreamer pipelines follow ONNX and GStreamer updates on daily.dev._ ### How does the new unixfd plugin in GStreamer 1.24 enable zero-copy inter-process pipelines? The unixfd plugin provides sink and source elements that communicate over a Unix socket, enabling zero-copy transfer of file-descriptor-backed buffers between pipelines running in separate processes. It is complemented by a new generic GstMeta serialization API that allows metadata to be transmitted and stored alongside buffers. This work was sponsored by Netflix. _Teams building high-performance GStreamer pipelines across processes can follow related releases on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support](https://daily.dev/posts/gstreamer-1-28-1-adds-whisper-based-speech-to-text-av1-stateful-v4l2-decoder-support-njs5v7ce9) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GStreamer 1.28 Released With More Rust Code](https://daily.dev/posts/gstreamer-1-28-released-with-more-rust-code-ukhdu9ibb) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Introducing GstPipelineStudio 0.6.0](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-gstpipelinestudio-0-6-0-ofhghxgo9) · Planet Igalia · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components](https://daily.dev/posts/gstreamer-1-28-rc1-brings-a-rust-based-gif-decoder-other-new-rust-components-di4boxwf7) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [XMMS Codebase Brought Back To Life By AI With GTK4 \+ GStreamer/PipeWire Port](https://daily.dev/posts/xmms-codebase-brought-back-to-life-by-ai-with-gtk4-gstreamer-pipewire-port-s2i0fqvzj) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/gstreamer-1-24-new-heights-in-embedded-network-streaming-analytics-57ecbpas1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"GStreamer 1.24: New heights in embedded, network streaming & analytics","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/gstreamer-1-24-new-heights-in-embedded-network-streaming-analytics-57ecbpas1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/gstreamer-1-24-new-heights-in-embedded-network-streaming-analytics-57ecbpas1"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:54:36.208Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:16:24.130Z","description":"GStreamer 1.24 has been released after 13 months of development, with contributions from 231 developers and over 3,141 patches. 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