2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.9.6 "White Eight"
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: audiotestsrc, 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
57 * flicker-free and rewritten X sinks
58 * fractional framerates
59 * removed sinesrc, replaced by audiotestsrc
61 Bugs fixed in this release
63 * 316442 : playbin should use autoaudiosink/autovideosink by default
64 * 318353 : [ffmpegcolorspace] forward-port fixes from 0.8 branch
65 * 320200 : vorbisenc: min-bitrate and max-bitrate are 1/1000 bps rat...
66 * 321164 : gstringbuffer stops working under load
67 * 321426 : ximage plugin should be renamed to ximagesink
68 * 321446 : sinesrc should be dropped in favour of audiotestsrc
69 * 321451 : GstRtpBuffer: no way to create a sub buffer with only the...
70 * 321816 : [API] xoverlay API to post prepare-xwindow-id message
71 * 321894 : vorbisenc doesn't compile
72 * 322117 : Rename libgsttagedit to libgsttag
76 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
77 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
81 More details can be found on the project's website:
82 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
86 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
87 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
91 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
92 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
93 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
94 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
95 will create more lists as necessary.
100 Contributors to this release
112 * Thomas Vander Stichele