2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.8.1 "Snow Brigade"
5 The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
6 in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.
9 The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
10 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
11 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.
14 This module only contains core functionality. For actual media playback,
15 you will need other modules. GStreamer Plugins contains a huge set of
16 additional plugins. GStreamer FFmpeg contains a plugin based on the popular
17 FFmpeg decoding library. These modules need not have the same source version
18 as the core, as long as they are in the 0.8.x series.
21 Features of this release
23 * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
24 * Internationalization
25 * New translations in this release: Swedish, Afrikaans, Azerbeaijani
26 * Translations: af, az, fr, nl, sr, sv
27 * New scheduler: entry
28 * Reworked capabilities and negotiation subsystem
29 * Reworked tagging subsystem
30 * Reworked interactivity subsystem (for DVD playback)
31 * Consistent error and debug signaling
32 * Dynamic debug logging
34 * Binding support fixes
36 * Coding style consistency
38 Bugs fixed in this release
40 * 136841 : Some code will need to be rewritten to compile against gc...
41 * 136904 : [opt] support loop in multi-loop based group
42 * 137279 : [patch] dispose/finalize functions for gst core elements
43 * 137625 : HAVE_ATOMIC_H is not used
44 * 138705 : Problem testing gstreamer 0.8.0
45 * 139002 : Compilation error
46 * 139109 : Compilation of gst-plugins fails because of errors in header
47 * 139617 : v4l2src ! spider ! ximagesink : crashes
51 You find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
52 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
56 More details can be found on the project's website:
57 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
61 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
62 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
66 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
67 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
68 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
69 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
70 will create more lists as necessary.
75 Applications already ported to use GStreamer 0.8.x include the GNOME
76 desktop components like gnome-media and nautilus-media, as well as other
77 GNOME applications including sound-juicer, totem and RhythmBox.
80 Contributors to this release
94 * Thomas Vander Stichele