2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.6 "Chao"
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 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
57 * Threadsafe design and API
58 * QoS in sinks and transform elements
59 * Needs GStreamer 0.10.5 for new GstBaseSink::async_playback() vmethod
60 * added theoraparse element
62 Bugs fixed in this release
64 * 313136 : [playbin] hang while playing truncated ogg file
65 * 172848 : [subparse] subtitles with special chars are displayed as ...
66 * 305279 : [riff] uncompressed AVIs with 24bpp don't work
67 * 320765 : [ffmpegcolorspace] make win32+msvc compliant, don't use _...
68 * 323852 : Disable tests/icles on platforms that do not have X
69 * 325653 : build errors compiling audioresample on win32(vs7)
70 * 327357 : gst-plugins-base fails to compile with GCC 4.1
71 * 334620 : [gnomevfssrc] fails to connect to icecast streaming servers
72 * 334822 : [ffmpegcolorspace] YVU9 support
73 * 335028 : [typefinding] ID3 v1 tag is not recognized with mp3-in-wa...
74 * 335365 : inefficient use of GList in gst-plugins-base
75 * 336190 : [gnomevfssink] should accept non-URI filenames as " location "
76 * 336194 : [gnomevfssrc] some minor memory leaks
77 * 336477 : plugins need better/univied descriptions
78 * 336617 : Unable to recognise MPEG TS stream
79 * 337548 : Memory leaks in basertpdepayload
80 * 337945 : [oggdemux] segment stop position ignored
81 * 338419 : Regression in the handling of files with multiple audio/s...
82 * 338897 : Videoscale crashes as part of DVD to Ogg transcoding
83 * 339013 : [videorate] Goes into an infinite loop
84 * 339047 : [riff] handle H264 fourcc in addition to h264
85 * 339212 : ISO file typefinding regression
86 * 330748 : deadlock in base audio sink on playing- > paused state change
90 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
91 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
95 More details can be found on the project's website:
96 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
100 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
101 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
105 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
106 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
107 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
108 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
109 will create more lists as necessary.
114 Contributors to this release
127 * Thomas Vander Stichele