2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.12.0
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release in the stable 1.12
5 release series. The 1.12 release series is adding new features on top of the
6 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 1.10 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable
7 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
10 Full release notes can be found here
13 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.
16 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
17 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
18 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
19 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
21 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
22 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
25 This module contains elements for, among others:
27 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
29 codecs: vorbis, theora
30 text: textoverlay, subparse
31 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
34 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
35 visualisation: libvisual
36 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
37 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
38 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
41 Other modules containing plugins are:
45 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
47 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
50 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
51 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
54 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
62 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
63 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
65 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
66 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
70 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
72 ==== Support and Bugs ====
74 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
75 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
77 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
79 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
80 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
82 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
86 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
87 from there (see link above).
89 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
90 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
93 Contributors to this release