2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.5.91
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate for the
6 stable 1.6 release series. The 1.6 release series is adding new features on top of
7 the 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
8 series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The final 1.6.0 release is planned
9 in the next few days unless any major bugs are found.
12 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately by
13 the GStreamer project.
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 Bugs fixed in this release
65 * 751508 : tsdemux: jerky sound on some multicast streams (regression)
66 * 752480 : dashdemux: negative values for r attribute in S node are not supported
67 * 753152 : pcapparse wrong magic when used with identity sync=1
68 * 753196 : audio/videoaggregator: Assumes that running time starts at seeking position after a seek (but it starts at 0 for flushing seeks)
69 * 753344 : hlsdemux: Fix playback of live streams
70 * 753758 : ios: Does not shut down context and navigation GMainLoop
71 * 753805 : compositor/videoaggregator: Crashes because of invalid video info
72 * 753812 : qt: Checks for Qt5 don't require new enough version.
73 * 753813 : dashdemux: replace use of xmlNodeDump as it is described as a deprecated function
74 * 753818 : hlsdemux: deadlock on stop
75 * 753820 : video-bad: fix build failure
76 * 753822 : assrender: do not crash when video frame mapping fails
77 * 753837 : dtsdec: overwritten init value
78 * 753881 : hls/m3u8: make check fails for hlsdemux_m3u8 due to floating point rounding error
79 * 753905 : android emulator returns NULL for GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION
80 * 753913 : caopengllayersink: Don't chain up to parent's query handling twice for DRAIN query
81 * 753915 : audiomixer: Remove duplicated word in comment
82 * 753937 : dashdemux: don't meddle with the class struct from an instance
83 * 753944 : curl: configure check for netinet/ip.h doesn't work on FreeBSD
84 * 754024 : codecparsers: Various HEVC codecparser fixes
85 * 754047 : glupload: Loses overlay meta when using raw uploader
86 * 754107 : compositor: Inputs are " obscured " when they aren't
87 * 754108 : qmlsink: Ensure that at least one windowing system is available
88 * 754122 : h265parse/h264parse: Crashes instead of returning not-negotiated
89 * 754222 : adaptivedemux: Timestamping of multi-period streams is not correct
90 * 754291 : videoaggregator: Compositor fails with " reason not-negotiated " when changing the pixel-aspect-ratio during runtime
91 * 754465 : compositor: Negotiation failure with ARGB64
92 * 754504 : vtdec: invalid colorimetry and generating greenish output
93 * 754528 : decklinkvideosink: Properly handle pipelines where the running time does not start around 0
94 * 754576 : compositor: input stream is wrongly considered obscured in some cases (regression)
95 * 754666 : decklinkvideosink: Consider pipeline latency when scheduling frames
96 * 754668 : mpdparser: fix incorrect start value scaling
97 * 754686 : adaptivedemux: statistics message name macro is unprefixed
98 * 754732 : gl: (ubuntu) error: conflicting types for 'GLsizeiptr' ( & more)
99 * 754756 : directsoundsrc: Compiler warning with 64bit Windows MinGW, cast from pointer to integer of different size
100 * 754757 : gl/eagl: Don't make context uncurrent just to make it current again in the next line
101 * 754819 : opusenc: critical/warning when dumping dots
102 * 754834 : codecparsers: hevc: Fixes in scaling list value and NumPocTocalCurr value calculation
103 * 754851 : aggregator: Use the whole aggregator latency for the queue size, not just the latency property
104 * 755042 : dashdemux: sidx parsing crashes at end of stream
105 * 755047 : mssdemux/dashdemux: live playback regression
106 * 755049 : intervideosrc doesn't render the preroll frame (in paused state)
107 * 755059 : opusdec: negotiation regression
108 * 755111 : Regression: glimagesink 3D video handling
109 * 755113 : Regression: dvbsuboverlay negotiates invalid caps
110 * 755140 : gstgl: Fix GError leaks during failures
111 * 755142 : avdtputil: fix GError memory leak during failures
112 * 755156 : vtdec: resizing glimagesink results in a not-negotiated error
116 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
117 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
119 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
120 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
124 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
126 ==== Support and Bugs ====
128 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
129 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
131 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
133 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
134 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
136 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
140 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
141 from there (see link above).
143 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
144 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
147 Contributors to this release
151 * Athanasios Oikonomou
153 * Carlos Rafael Giani
158 * Luis de Bethencourt
166 * Sreerenj Balachandran
170 * Vanessa Chipirrás Navalón