2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.1.90
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix 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 Bugs fixed in this release
63 * 588535 : Elements need special handling of interlaced planar YUV formats with vertical subsampling
64 * 688043 : videodecoder: no timestamps for multifilesrc ! jpegdec ! ...
65 * 706340 : videofilter: it might make sense to implement the " transform_meta " virtual method
66 * 706823 : videoconvert: generic conversion produces artifacts
67 * 707158 : POTFILES.in is out of date
68 * 707304 : testsuite FAIL: elements/audioconvert
69 * 707332 : videoencoder: doesn't check for invalid duration
70 * 707611 : rtspsrc state change always blocks when source is offline (waiting for connect timeout)
71 * 707660 : playbin, playsink: typo in convert-sample signal docs
72 * 707765 : id3v2 blob frames are not encapsuled in a GstSample
73 * 707789 : Strings missed in POT
74 * 707793 : dmabuf allocator shouldn't a singleton
75 * 707878 : riff: Add support for TSCC2
79 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
80 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
82 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
83 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
87 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
89 ==== Support and Bugs ====
91 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
92 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
94 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
96 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
97 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
99 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
103 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
104 from there (see link above).
106 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
107 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
110 Contributors to this release
113 * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
117 * Mathieu Duponchelle