2 Release notes for GStreamer 1.5.2
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
6 1.5 release series. The 1.5 release series is adding new features on top of
7 the 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
8 series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.5 release series
9 will lead to the stable 1.6 release series in the next weeks, and newly added
10 API can still change until that point.
13 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
14 during the unstable 1.5 release series.
18 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
19 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
22 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
24 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
26 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
29 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
30 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
33 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
39 Bugs fixed in this release
41 * 740502 : Add absolute property to GstDirectControlBinding
42 * 740575 : Fixing DTS in GStreamer
43 * 745366 : concat: Forward FLUSH_START / FLUSH_STOP events
44 * 746949 : concat: Add active-pad property
45 * 750027 : concat: Reset internal start offset to 0 after flushing seek
46 * 750033 : basetransform - allow collation/separation of buffers
47 * 750039 : Keeping buffers with shared memory alive
48 * 750319 : memory: subclasses don't know map flags in unmap
49 * 750530 : ptp: FreeBSD, DragonFly and other BSDs don't have ifreq.ifw_hwaddr
50 * 750574 : netclientclock: Make the clock a wrapper clock around an internal clock
51 * 750761 : inputselector: Handle different duration track selection
52 * 750782 : pipeline: Add gst_pipeline_set_latency(), getter and GObject property
53 * 751026 : basesink: Properly handle buffer lists for the last-sample property
54 * 751047 : concat: Add adjust-base property
55 * 751107 : concat: when releasing pad, send EOS appropriately.
56 * 751235 : utils: get_compatible_pad does not fully respect filter caps
57 * 751420 : basesink: need to deep-copy last buffer list in drain
61 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
62 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
64 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
65 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
69 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
71 ==== Support and Bugs ====
73 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
74 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
76 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
78 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
79 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
81 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
85 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
86 from there (see link above).
88 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
89 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
92 Contributors to this release
102 * Mathieu Duponchelle