2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.6.1
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first bugfix release in the stable
6 1.6 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
9 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided by the
10 GStreamer project for this release.
12 This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.6.0. For a
13 full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla.
15 The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API
16 or ABI compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed
17 in parallel with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing
21 See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/
22 for the full release notes.
26 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
27 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
28 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
29 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
31 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
32 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
35 This module contains elements for, among others:
37 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
39 codecs: vorbis, theora
40 text: textoverlay, subparse
41 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
44 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
45 visualisation: libvisual
46 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
47 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
48 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
51 Other modules containing plugins are:
55 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
57 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
60 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
61 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
64 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
70 Bugs fixed in this release
72 * 752705 : rtpbuffer: Add map flag to skip padding
73 * 754459 : decodebin: fix event leak with validate.hls.playback.play_15s.hls_bibbop scenario
74 * 754567 : video: gst_video_calculate_display_ratio() should have out parameter
75 * 754980 : audiobasesink: audio skipping when playing it repeatedly.
76 * 755494 : gst-plugins-base fails to build with --with-pkg-config-path
77 * 755770 : decodebin: Free unlinked chains at time of switching chains
78 * 755867 : playsink: fix leak of audio sink
79 * 755875 : subparse: < / i > should be handled like < /i >
80 * 756611 : playbin: Leak of playbin on errors from the source element
81 * 756893 : video: Missing closing parenthesis in video overlay composition cast macros
85 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
86 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
88 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
89 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
93 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
95 ==== Support and Bugs ====
97 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
98 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
100 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
102 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
103 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
105 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
109 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
110 from there (see link above).
112 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
113 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
116 Contributors to this release
118 * Guillaume Desmottes