2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.6.0
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in the
6 stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
9 This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new
10 features, bug fixes and other improvements.
14 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/
15 for the full list of changes.
22 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
23 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
24 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
25 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
26 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
30 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
31 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
32 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
33 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
37 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
38 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
39 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
40 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
41 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
42 depending on the other factors.
43 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
44 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
45 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
48 Other modules containing plugins are:
52 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
54 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
56 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
59 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
65 Bugs fixed in this release
67 * 754903 : eagl: crashes or no video display on reuse
68 * 755249 : gtkglsink: Hide and cleaned the GtkWindow we might create
69 * 755251 : gtksink: Rework threading around GtkWindow creation
70 * 755411 : mpdparser: Only check stream- > segments for a repeated last segment if we have a static list of segments
71 * 755426 : decklinkvideosrc: Can't go to PAUSED again from READY
72 * 755456 : glmemory: fix texture leak in _gl_mem_copy
73 * 755459 : gtksink: Do not show window until we reach the PAUSED state
74 * 755542 : gtk: Fix a race where we end up setting wrong VideoInfo
75 * 755618 : gstglfilter: fix error GL_INVALID_OPERATION " glBindBuffer: buffer bound to more than 1 "
79 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
80 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
82 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
83 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
87 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
89 ==== Support and Bugs ====
91 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
92 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
94 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
96 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
97 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
99 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
103 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
104 from there (see link above).
106 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
107 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
110 Contributors to this release