2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.1 "Comforting Sounds"
5 The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
6 in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.
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 contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding,
15 conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media
16 handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module
17 to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long
18 as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.
21 The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If you
22 want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this
23 module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based colorspace
24 element has been added to the Plugins however.
27 Features of this release
29 * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
30 * Internationalization
31 * New translations in this release: Swedish, Afrikaans, Azerbeaijani
32 * Translations: af az nl sr sv
33 * Updated to the new core 0.8 subsystems
34 * Reworked play and media-info libraries
35 * Updated osssink: now does probing of possible output properties
36 * Updated qtdemux: fixes for MACE audio
37 * New debug element: quasirandom byte changes
38 * New element: dvddemux
39 * New element: kiosrc, a KIO-slaves source
40 * Fixes to all other elements, including level, videodrop, gnomevfssrc, speex, *law, mpeg2dec, adder, a52dec, oggdemux, matroska, mad, v4l2, cacasink
43 * Coding style consistency
44 * Various memleak and buffer overflow fixes
46 Bugs fixed in this release
48 * 120883 : osssink advertises more rates than it handles
49 * 125732 : v4l2src don't support all YUV formats
50 * 134301 : gst-plugins should depend on X
51 * 135919 : Mandrake 10
52 * 136477 : [PATCH] gst-launch-ext does not support .mov
53 * 136527 : gdk_pixbuf makefile tried to execute targets contrains in...
54 * 137348 : media-info .pc file lacks a 'Version:' line
55 * 137448 : mpegaudioparse: crash (bus error)
56 * 137504 : mpeg2dec fails on 422 encoded material
57 * 137556 : Ogg Vorbis playback has poor spatialization
58 * 137588 : ffmpegcolorspace gives critical when it should throw error
59 * 137722 : Quicktime audio parsing is broken
60 * 138105 : [mpeg1videoparse] Hangs while decoding everest.m1v
61 * 138168 : id3tag using gst_event_new_discontinuous incorrectly?
62 * 138169 : matroska-demux using gst_event_new_discontinuous without ...
63 * 138635 : two GLib-GObject-CRITICAL Messages when running gst-regis...
64 * 138846 : all of the ladspa-wrapped source-plugins fail to go to pl...
65 * 138914 : gstgdkanimation.h is missing from gst-plugins-0.8.0
66 * 139034 : Non-standard test(1) operator used in configure script
67 * 139035 : Non-standard regex used as libtool argument
68 * 139382 : mad decoder can resync wrongly after seek and does explic...
69 * 139532 : gstcolorspace crashes when after v4lsrc (ffmpegcolorspace...
70 * 139926 : id3tag's caps cause it to be plugged more than once by sp...
71 * 139958 : Leak in avidemux
72 * 140058 : [msmpeg4] file with broken qscale/header does not play
76 You find source releases of gst-plugins in the download directory:
77 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/
81 More details can be found on the project's website:
82 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
86 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
87 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
91 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
92 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
93 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
94 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
95 will create more lists as necessary.
100 The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found
101 under /system/gstreamer/0.8. Applications should use the gconf library,
102 as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.
105 Contributors to this release
115 * Julio M. Merino Vidal
120 * Thomas Vander Stichele