2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0.2
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix release
6 in the 1.x stable series of the
7 core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
10 The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
13 will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
17 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
18 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
19 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
20 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
22 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
23 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
26 This module contains elements for, among others:
28 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
30 codecs: vorbis, theora
31 text: textoverlay, subparse
32 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
35 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
36 visualisation: libvisual
37 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
38 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
39 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
42 Other modules containing plugins are:
46 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
48 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
51 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
52 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
55 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
61 Features of this release
63 * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
64 * alsa: fix probing of supported formats, and advertise non-native-endianness formats as fallback
65 * audiobasesink: properly handle GAP events (fixing some isses with e.g. certain DVD menus)
66 * audioconvert: try harder to not convert or to preserve input format precision
67 * audiodecoder: leak fixes and refcounting fixes
68 * audioresample: re-enable the SSE/SSE2 code paths for better performance
69 * riff: fix paletted RGB formats and msvideo mapping
70 * rtsp: make formatting and parsing of range floating-point values locale-independent
71 * playbin: streamsynchronizer fixes, esp. for handling corner-cases near EOS
72 * tcpserver{sink,src}: add 'current-port' property and signal actually used port
73 * videoconvert: fix handling of paletted RGB formats
74 * videodecoder: don't leak message strings when error is not fatal
75 * videodecoder: finetune missing timestamp estimating
76 * videotestsrc: add palette for paletted RGB formats
77 * vorbistag: fix writing of image tags into vorbis comments
79 Bugs fixed in this release
81 * 580093 : tcpserversink,src: add 'current-port' property and signal actually used port when port=0 was set
82 * 680904 : alsasink: no supported formats detected with using USB sound card on big-endian system
83 * 683098 : videodecoder: log failure message if acquire_buffer failed
84 * 684411 : rtsp: range in SDP formatted according to locale
85 * 685273 : Pre-rolling on GAP events doesn't work properly for audio sinks
86 * 685711 : audio, video: update docs for virtual functions that require chaining up
87 * 685938 : [decodebin] Issues with group switching algorithm
88 * 686081 : adder: all unit tests crash now after collectpads changes
89 * 686298 : Cannot decode some AVI files with Microsoft Video 1
93 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
94 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
96 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
97 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
101 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
103 ==== Support and Bugs ====
105 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
106 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
108 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
110 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
111 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
113 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
117 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
118 from there (see link above).
120 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
121 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
124 Contributors to this release
127 * Andoni Morales Alastruey
128 * Carlos Rafael Giani