2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.21 "We Could Be Wrong"
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
55 Features of this release
57 * Continue playbin2 development
58 * Ogg improvements - CELT support, skeleton fixes
59 * DVD subpicture support
60 * Improved audio dithering random number generator
61 * xvimagesink/ximagesink fixes
62 * Vorbis encoding and decoding fixes
63 * Recognise Kate subtitle streams
64 * Many bug-fixes and enhancements
66 Bugs fixed in this release
68 * 537380 : [gnomevfssrc] Doesn't handle short reads properly
69 * 538656 : xvimagesink support for autofill/colorkey property
70 * 540334 : Build fails without X in tests/examples/seek
71 * 528299 : Multiple GstMixerTracks with the same label cause problem...
72 * 530068 : Ogg Streams with Skeleton and Granulepos > 0 do not work(...
73 * 537009 : playbin2 silly typo breaks signals
74 * 537045 : decodebin2 sometimes emits 'drained' multiple times
75 * 537599 : [oggdemux] skeleton streams not skipped in ogg
76 * 537889 : [xvimagesink] colorbalance is bad
77 * 538232 : vorbisenc/vorbisdec don't work with a live source
78 * 538663 : gdppay memleak in gst_gdp_pay_reset
79 * 540215 : decodebin does not insert a queue for raw data type
80 * 540351 : [avidemux] Doesn't know about Duck DK4 ADPCM
81 * 540497 : ffmpegcolorspace is returning wrong size
82 * 541358 : cross mingw32 gcc: getaddrinfo is not in ws2_32.dll befor...
83 * 544306 : rtspsrc debug=1 segfaults with some libc
84 * 548898 : GStreamer-CRITICAL errors on seeking beyond stream borders
85 * 548913 : vorbisenc being picky about rounding errors in timestamps
86 * 549062 : Video devices aren't updated on subsequent probing.
87 * 549814 : [typefind] add application/pdf typefinder
88 * 550582 : [oggdemux] KATE streams not recognised
89 * 550638 : [typefind] Recognize some jpeg2k file types
90 * 550656 : recognize TrueSpeech in wavparse
91 * 550729 : gst-plugins-base won't compile with " -pedantic " option
92 * 552960 : tagdemux asserts and aborts on truncated files
93 * 553244 : theoraparse doesn't work at all (throws criticals and ass...
95 API changed in this release
99 * Add "index" property to GstMixerTrack to differantiate between
100 multiple mixer tracks with the same label.
104 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
105 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
109 More details can be found on the project's website:
110 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
114 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
115 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
119 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
120 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
121 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
122 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
123 will create more lists as necessary.
128 Contributors to this release
148 * Thomas Vander Stichele