2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins 0.9.6 "The Marshals Are Dead"
5 The GStreamer team is petrified to announce a new release
6 in the 0.9.x development series of the
7 GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins.
10 The 0.9.x series is a development series and not recommended for end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
15 "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
18 There are times when the world needs a color between black and white.
19 Quality code to match the good's, but two-timing, backstabbing and ready to
20 sell your freedom down the river. These plug-ins might have a patent noose
21 around their neck, or a lock-up license, or any other problem that makes you
22 think twice about shipping them.
25 We don't call them ugly because we like them less. Does a mother love her
26 son less because he's not as pretty as the other ones ? No - she commends
27 him on his great personality. These plug-ins are the life of the party.
28 And we'll still step in and set them straight if you report any unacceptable
29 behaviour - because there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend:
30 those with a rope around their neck and the people who do the cutting.
33 This module contains a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct
34 functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license
35 on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd
36 like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems.
37 Distributors should check if they want/can ship these plug-ins.
40 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
44 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
46 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
48 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
49 rigorous quality testing we expect
54 Features of this release
56 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
57 * Threadsafe design and API
59 * fractional framerates
61 Bugs fixed in this release
63 * 319862 : Partial mpegstream/dvddemux port
64 * 321955 : gst-plugins-ugly fail to compile
68 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-ugly in the download directory:
69 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/
73 More details can be found on the project's website:
74 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
78 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
79 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
83 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
84 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
85 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
86 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
87 will create more lists as necessary.
92 Contributors to this release
100 * Thomas Vander Stichele