2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.9.3 "De Facto"
5 The GStreamer team is petrified to announce a new release
6 in the 0.9.x development series of the
7 GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
10 The 0.9.x series is a development series and not recommended for end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
15 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
16 plugins, and helper libraries.
18 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
19 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
22 This module contains elements for, among others:
24 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
26 codecs: vorbis, theora
27 text: textoverlay, subparse
28 sources: sinesrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc
31 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume
32 visualisation: libvisual
33 video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
34 aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin
37 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
41 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
43 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
46 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
47 rigorous quality testing we expect
52 Features of this release
54 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
55 * Threadsafe design and API
58 Bugs fixed in this release
60 * 313251 : ximagesink unused functions
61 * 315159 : audioconvert lost 24 bit conversions in the rewrite
65 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
66 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
70 More details can be found on the project's website:
71 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
75 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
76 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
80 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
81 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
82 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
83 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
84 will create more lists as necessary.
89 Contributors to this release
97 * Thomas Vander Stichele
101 * Zaheer Abbas Merali