2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.7.2
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
5 1.7 release series. The 1.7 release series is adding new features on top of
6 the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
7 series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.7 release series
8 will lead to the stable 1.8 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added
9 API can still change until that point.
12 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
13 during the unstable 1.7 release series.
19 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
20 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
21 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
22 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
23 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
27 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
28 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
29 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
30 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
34 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
35 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
36 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
37 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
38 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
39 depending on the other factors.
40 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
41 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
42 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
45 Other modules containing plugins are:
49 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
51 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
53 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
56 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
62 Bugs fixed in this release
64 * 719849 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] move mpg123 to -ugly
65 * 729485 : avfvideosrc: Cannot reconfigure caps
66 * 733959 : hlsdemux: download bitrate algorithms don't reflect real download rate
67 * 737786 : android: Upstream one of the android video source implementations
68 * 744367 : mpegtsmux: add HEVC support
69 * 748507 : mpegtsmux: set non-0 payload length in PES header if video ES packet is small enough
70 * 752374 : dashdemux: gst_dash_demux_get_live_seek_range should not return negative values
71 * 752688 : wayland: improve check for wayland-scanner
72 * 756207 : videoaggregator: Setting aspect ratio crops the frame
73 * 756252 : Resurrect NetSim
74 * 757597 : codecparsers: Add VP9 parser
75 * 757602 : adaptivedemux: improved error message if availabilityStartTime is missing for a live stream
76 * 757655 : dashdemux: cannot get segment availability start time if segment duration is not present
77 * 757951 : adaptivedemux: set src element to ready before flushing the input pad
78 * 758516 : mpegtsbase: Add condition to check for non working negative rate
79 * 759158 : dashdemux/mssdemux: add support for snapping seek flags
80 * 759679 : gl: unused function '_get_plane_width'
81 * 759743 : dashdemux: getting clock compensation using HTTP HEAD uses an incorrect year
82 * 759860 : glupload: Attaches composition overlay when not supported
83 * 759869 : glimagesink: navigation messages are not posted on the bus
84 * 759902 : glshader: fix usage documentation
85 * 759913 : glbufferpool: Fix build error
86 * 760090 : gst-plugins-bad: implicit declaration of function ‘gst_init’
87 * 760120 : dashdemux: memory leak in gst_dash_demux_update_manifest_data
88 * 760242 : rtmpsink: should get streamheaders from caps instead of first buffer.
89 * 760270 : videoparse: add support of padded video
90 * 760328 : adaptivedemux: tests: clean tests
91 * 760559 : glvideomixer ! glimagesink deadlocks on resize
92 * 760594 : decklinkvideosrc: does not support capture in RGB mode
93 * 760600 : tests: memory leak in test HTTP source
94 * 760696 : gl: Regression with caps ref-couting
95 * 760873 : GstGLVideoMixerPad vertex_buffer leaks when pad dynamic removed
96 * 760936 : dash, mpdparser: Fix the bug when getting the URL of index segment by SegmentBase
97 * 760972 : glwindow: Fix android build
98 * 760982 : adaptivedemux: memory leak of stream- > internal_pad
99 * 761014 : h264parse: sends unnecessary caps events/queries for every (unchanging) SPS/PPS when converting to byte-stream (android mediacodec)
100 * 761108 : uvch264_src: Fix caps memory leak
101 * 761109 : acmenc/acmmp3dec: remove unnecessary break after return
102 * 761230 : tinyalsa: Add a new sink plugin using tinyalsa
103 * 761458 : adaptivedemux: Unused GstSegment variable in download loop
104 * 761460 : player: Makefile does not use configured PKG_CONFIG_PATH when performing introspection scan
105 * 761519 : gl: Activate " qos " in filters
106 * 761538 : gst_gl_insert_debug_marker called with no current context
107 * 761578 : GstGLContext didn't get unref correctly
108 * 761606 : Move H.265 RTP payloader/depayloader from -bad to -good
109 * 761704 : POTFILES.skip is out of date
110 * 762013 : curlhttpsink: Problem in curlhttpsink when qtmux uses faststart, don't send empty buffers
111 * 762171 : soundtouch plugin is not shipped
112 * 758158 : opusdec: in-band FEC has no effect
116 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
117 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
119 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
120 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
124 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
126 ==== Support and Bugs ====
128 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
129 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
131 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
133 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
134 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
136 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
140 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
141 from there (see link above).
143 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
144 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
147 Contributors to this release
169 * Luis de Bethencourt
175 * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
178 * Sreerenj Balachandran