2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.4 "Power"
6 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
7 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
8 GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
11 The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
12 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
13 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
17 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
18 plugins, and helper libraries.
20 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
21 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
24 This module contains elements for, among others:
26 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
28 codecs: vorbis, theora
29 text: textoverlay, subparse
30 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc
33 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume
34 visualisation: libvisual
35 video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
36 aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin
39 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
43 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
45 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
48 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
49 rigorous quality testing we expect
54 Features of this release
56 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
57 * Threadsafe design and API
58 * (Experimental) QoS support
59 * oggmuxer now creates 100% valid streams for Theora, Vorbis and Speex
60 * documentation updates
61 * better support for subtitles (seeking)
63 Bugs fixed in this release
65 * 310202 : [subtitles] < i > < /i > tags and others should be supported i...
66 * 312439 : XVideo output doesn't work on remote displays (probably r...
67 * 321271 : audio output is truncated at EOS
68 * 321650 : Can't decode this ogm file
69 * 325732 : [oggdemux] problem when seeking to time less than 4s with...
70 * 325972 : [typefinding] doesn't recognise this mp3
71 * 326720 : [alsasink] doesn't support more than 2 channels anymore
72 * 330711 : [ffmpegcolorspace] problems with palettized RGB (fencount...
73 * 330789 : gstbaseaudiosink causes noise on seeking
74 * 330888 : Fix build with gcc 2.95 (again)
75 * 331295 : gnomevfssink doesn't respect umask when creating files
76 * 331526 : 3GP type detection is too simple
77 * 331678 : Decodebin is not reusable within a single pipeline (as in...
78 * 331690 : playbin won't play my last.fm stream
79 * 331763 : [alsamixer] unmute sets the volume to 100%
80 * 331765 : [alsamixer] mixer applet slider doesn't want to move from...
81 * 331903 : [videorate] doesnt handle input caps of framerate=0/1 sanely
82 * 332778 : [ogmparse] " Already an existing pad " WARNING
83 * 332964 : random crashes in mp3_type_find
84 * 333254 : theora encoder does not set IN_CAPS flag properly
85 * 333352 : [gnomevfssink] reports disk full as generic error
86 * 333488 : Allow for palette < 256 colours in AVI files
87 * 333510 : [PATCH] Fix gst_pad_new_from_template (gst_static_pad_tem...
88 * 333545 : [riff] set depth on wma caps to make asfdemux and pitfdll...
89 * 333663 : [patch] unref the result of gst_pad_get_parent
90 * 333900 : [typefind] cannot play a particular mp3 file
91 * 334112 : variable not initialized
92 * 334129 : Disable frame dropping for now
93 * 317038 : use default channel layout if none is specified in multic...
94 * 319340 : [cdparanoia] uncorrected-error signal never fired
96 API changed in this release
101 * GstTextOverlay::halignment
102 * GstTextOverlay::valignment
106 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
107 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
111 More details can be found on the project's website:
112 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
116 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
117 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
121 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
122 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
123 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
124 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
125 will create more lists as necessary.
130 Contributors to this release
142 * Thomas Vander Stichele