2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.7.2
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
5 1.7 release series. The 1.7 release series is adding new features on top of
6 the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
7 series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.7 release series
8 will lead to the stable 1.8 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added
9 API can still change until that point.
12 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
13 during the unstable 1.7 release series.
16 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
17 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
18 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
19 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
21 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
22 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
25 This module contains elements for, among others:
27 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
29 codecs: vorbis, theora
30 text: textoverlay, subparse
31 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
34 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
35 visualisation: libvisual
36 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
37 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
38 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
41 Other modules containing plugins are:
45 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
47 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
50 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
51 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
54 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
60 Bugs fixed in this release
62 * 745880 : sdp: SDP < - > GstCaps helper functions
63 * 751901 : gst-play: verbose & playbin flags options support
64 * 755918 : decodebin: Refactor code to remove assertion errors
65 * 756187 : appsink: Always blocks on EOS until buffers are consumed since 1.6, should be configurable
66 * 758212 : playbin adds the template caps on autoplug-query
67 * 759729 : audiofxbad: Name collision with new GstAudioChannelMix API from libgstaudio
68 * 759855 : build: pbutils needs to link to libgstbase for bytewriter and adapter
69 * 759890 : audioconvert: creates choppy audio
70 * 760134 : audioconvert test: doesn't build with clang
71 * 760204 : videotestsrc: add missing break in set_property switch case
72 * 760234 : playbin: Assumes recursive accept-caps query, breaks totem
73 * 760408 : #750013 (streamsynchronizer patches) broke some use cases in GES
74 * 760477 : playbin: caps intersection autoplugs too early and stream stops
75 * 760769 : tests:audioconvert: Build error when running make check
76 * 760938 : audioconvert: crash when executing orc unpack function
77 * 760949 : decodebin: Correctly expose pads from elements that have directly exposable pads
78 * 761132 : video-format: fix GstVideoFormatInfo documentation warnings
79 * 761218 : audio/videodecoder: Use gst_pad_peer_query_caps() instead of using gst_pad_get_allowed_caps() to make negotiated output caps before forwarding GAP event
80 * 761251 : textoverlay: Expose text rendering dimensions to applications and remove absolute positioning limit
81 * 761949 : gst-libs/gst/Makefile.am: build audio before rtp
82 * 761951 : videoencoder: Fix leak when pre_push does not return OK
83 * 762085 : gst-base 1.7 update created background buzzing noise with audioconvert
84 * 762239 : matroskademux: Assertions about unmappable memory when demuxing wavpack streams
85 * 693263 : typefinding: MPEG-2 video ES detected as H.263
89 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
90 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
92 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
93 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
97 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
99 ==== Support and Bugs ====
101 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
102 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
104 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
106 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
107 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
109 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
113 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
114 from there (see link above).
116 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
117 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
120 Contributors to this release
133 * Mathieu Duponchelle
135 * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet