2 Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins 0.10.5 "She said"
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
6 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
7 GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins.
10 The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at 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.
16 "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
19 There are times when the world needs a color between black and white.
20 Quality code to match the good's, but two-timing, backstabbing and ready to
21 sell your freedom down the river. These plug-ins might have a patent noose
22 around their neck, or a lock-up license, or any other problem that makes you
23 think twice about shipping them.
26 We don't call them ugly because we like them less. Does a mother love her
27 son less because he's not as pretty as the other ones ? No - she commends
28 him on his great personality. These plug-ins are the life of the party.
29 And we'll still step in and set them straight if you report any unacceptable
30 behaviour - because there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend:
31 those with a rope around their neck and the people who do the cutting.
34 This module contains a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct
35 functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license
36 on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd
37 like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems.
38 Distributors should check if they want/can ship these plug-ins.
41 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
45 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
47 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
49 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
50 rigorous quality testing we expect
56 Features of this release
58 * Improved asf playback
59 * Fixes to MPEG demuxer
60 * Improved Real playback
61 * Fix crasher bugs in the MPEG video decoder
62 * DVD-read-src improvements
64 * Threadsafe design and API
66 Bugs fixed in this release
68 * 361584 : [mpeg2dec] framerate=0/0 on caps leads to crash
69 * 162417 : [mpeg] movie skips
70 * 340433 : [dvdread] fails to play certain DVDs with playbin and Totem
71 * 348002 : AC3 5.1 foreground movie sound cannot be heard in Totem/g...
72 * 350761 : [a52dec] Select output format based on peer element caps
73 * 350778 : [mpegdemux] Send update newsegments
74 * 356004 : [mpeg2dec] memory corruption
75 * 361140 : [lame] lame bitrate=196 errors out in setup
76 * 362639 : Fixes compiling with forte: warning clean up (part 6)
77 * 369627 : [mpeg2dec] unit test addition and memleak fix
78 * 374760 : [PATCH] last buffer sent by lame may not have (valid) tim...
79 * 374914 : this mp4 video doesn't play correctly (codec problem)
80 * 384447 : totem crashes while trying to play dvd on ppc
81 * 385192 : mpegparse accesses random memory
82 * 334322 : [mpegdemux] playbin freezes with VobSub subtitles
83 * 384989 : misparsing of Real Media mux leads to buffer overrun
84 * 384996 : Tailored or broken Real Media mux file crashes RM demuxer
85 * 327350 : [mpeg2dec] altivec crashes on misaligned buffers
86 * 350723 : [mad] Wrong output buffer timestamping
90 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-ugly in the download directory:
91 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/
95 More details can be found on the project's website:
96 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
100 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
101 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
105 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
106 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
107 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
108 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
109 will create more lists as necessary.
114 Contributors to this release
128 * Thomas Vander Stichele