2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0.1
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.
17 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
18 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
19 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
20 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
22 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
23 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
26 This module contains elements for, among others:
28 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
30 codecs: vorbis, theora
31 text: textoverlay, subparse
32 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
35 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
36 visualisation: libvisual
37 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
38 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
39 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
42 Other modules containing plugins are:
46 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
48 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
51 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
52 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
55 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
61 Features of this release
63 * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
64 * videodecoder and -encoder timestamp handling improvements
65 * thread-safey fixes for GstMeta registrations and GstVideoDecoder
67 Bugs fixed in this release
69 * 684424 : playbin: external subtitles break playback
70 * 684832 : videodecoder: Takes stream lock in query function
71 * 685110 : encodebin fails to release mux request sink pad for GstId3Mux as it is a static one for this mux
72 * 685242 : rtsp: mark url argument of gst_rtsp_url_parse as out
73 * 685332 : GstMeta registry race
74 * 685490 : audioencoder: don't require base class to implement to start vfunc
78 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
79 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
81 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
82 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
86 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
88 ==== Support and Bugs ====
90 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
91 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
93 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
95 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
96 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
98 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
102 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
103 from there (see link above).
105 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
106 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
109 Contributors to this release
112 * Andoni Morales Alastruey