2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.7 "Leave the gun"
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 * typefind improvements
57 * bug-fixes in textoverlay, audioconvert, videotestsrc, multifdsink and audio source/sink base classes
58 * Ice-cast metadata support has moved from gnomevfssrc to the icydemux element in gst-plugins-good
59 * audioresample now supports floating point samples
60 * Adder element fixes.
61 * Fixes for network playback and audio resampling in playbin
63 Bugs fixed in this release
65 * 340060 : [adder] handle newsegment events properly
66 * 340375 : [API 0.11] [patch] typefind to differentiate between mp4 ...
67 * 339405 : [textoverlay] can't display '\n' character
68 * 338657 : [patch] adder should send events from src-pad to all sink...
69 * 338919 : [patch] alsasink should also query witdh capabilities fro...
70 * 301759 : [audioresample] float audio support (for OSX audio sinks)
71 * 331901 : [videotestsrc] framerate=0/1 gives assertion error
72 * 333657 : Replacing icy demuxing in gnomevfssrc
73 * 336339 : [audioresample] should support width != 16
74 * 338718 : [patch] [audioconvert] correctly clip float samples > 1.0
75 * 338778 : [patch] Bad audio with ASX files
76 * 338991 : [patch] Videoscale doesn't pass on pixel-aspect ratio
77 * 339574 : [patch] Race condition in multifdsink can lead to spuriou...
78 * 339786 : [typefinding] wavpack typefinding doesn't always work
79 * 340369 : [volume element] " volume " property range insufficient
80 * 340379 : [playbin] doesn't insert audioresample, causes problems w...
81 * 340392 : Problem with internal-decodebin
82 * 341160 : [multifdsink] client_status enum has an uninitialized nick
83 * 341182 : Accessing playbin's streaminfo property from high languag...
84 * 341432 : [playbin] automatically get icecast metadata requiring ic...
85 * 341542 : some users have an assertion failed: (GST_VIDEO_SINK_WIDT...
86 * 341557 : Map GST_TAG_IMAGE < = > ID3v2 APIC tag
88 API changed in this release
93 * client-fd-removed signal added to multifdsink
94 * stream-info-value-array property added to playbin
95 * gst_video_calculate_display_ratio() in libgstvideo
99 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
100 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
104 More details can be found on the project's website:
105 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
109 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
110 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
114 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
115 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
116 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
117 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
118 will create more lists as necessary.
123 Contributors to this release
133 * Thomas Vander Stichele