2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.0.2
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
6 in the 1.x stable series of the
7 core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
10 The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
13 will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
20 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
21 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
22 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
23 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
24 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
28 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
29 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
30 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
31 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
35 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
36 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
37 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
38 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
39 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
40 depending on the other factors.
41 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
42 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
43 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
46 Other modules containing plugins are:
50 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
52 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
54 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
57 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
63 Features of this release
65 * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
66 * audioparse: add mode where caps are taken from upstream and only timestamping is performed
67 * directsoundsrc: port to 1.0
68 * dtsdec: fix buffer parsing
69 * fieldanalysis: actually build (remove from the NONPORTED plugins list)
70 * hlsdemux: numerous thread-safety fixes, and an invalid memory access fix
71 * mpegdemux: handle and combine downstream flow returns better
72 * mpegdemux: make work properly with dvdreadsrc
73 * mpegtsdemux: PES header parsing fixes; fix potential crash
74 * mpegtsdemux: First push EOS, then destroy all programs
75 * mpegtsmux: fix buffer refcounting issue
76 * mpeg4videoparse: correctly parse the full first frame; properly mark config data presence
77 * mpegvideoparse: correctly parse the full first frame; signal interlacing properly in caps
78 * pitch: fix for start times > 0 (e.g. ogg streaming)
79 * rtmpsink: handle RTMP_Write() return value correctly, fix memory leak
80 * scaletempo: fix timestamp and latency query handling, and event leak
83 Bugs fixed in this release
85 * 623387 : mpegdemux: check base_time before calculating new_start
86 * 673414 : directsoundsrc: Port to 1.0
87 * 681459 : rtmpsink: memory leak
88 * 685709 : mpeg4videoparse: AVI file with XVID video doesn't want to preroll: p_length.avi
89 * 685895 : mpegvideoparse: signal interlacing correctly in caps using new " interlace-mode " field
90 * 686009 : rtmpsink: handle RTMP_Write() return value correctly
91 * 686294 : tsdemux: Fix checking P-STD_buffer marker in PES header
92 * 686327 : mpegtsmux: fix refcount issue with input buffers
93 * 686358 : tsdemux: fix potential crash dereferencing NULL program pointer
94 * 686520 : wayland: update to wayland-protocol 0.99
95 * 686547 : rtpopuspay outputs unparseable caps
96 * 686595 : [mpg123] misc improvements and fixes
97 * 686774 : gst-plugins-bad/curl: add a comment describing function...
101 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
102 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
104 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
105 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
109 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
111 ==== Support and Bugs ====
113 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
114 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
116 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
118 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
119 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
121 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
125 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
126 from there (see link above).
128 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
129 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
132 Contributors to this release
134 * Andoni Morales Alastruey
135 * Carlos Rafael Giani
142 * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
144 * Sebastian Rasmussen
146 * Sreerenj Balachandran