2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.8.0
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the new stable
5 1.8 release series. The 1.8 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
7 release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
10 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly after
11 the source release by the GStreamer project during the stable 1.8 release
15 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
16 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
17 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
18 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
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, giosrc
33 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
34 visualisation: libvisual
35 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
36 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
37 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
40 Other modules containing plugins are:
44 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
46 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
49 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
50 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
53 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
59 Bugs fixed in this release
61 * 763316 : install-plugins: update documentation
65 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
66 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
68 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
69 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
73 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
75 ==== Support and Bugs ====
77 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
78 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
80 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
82 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
83 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
85 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
89 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
90 from there (see link above).
92 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
93 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
96 Contributors to this release
98 * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal