2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.3.91
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of
6 the stable 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new features
7 on top of the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x
8 release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
11 This release candidate will hopefully shortly be followed by the stable 1.4.0
12 release if no bigger regressions or bigger issues are detected, and enough
13 testing of the release candidate happened. The new API that was added during
14 the 1.3 release series is not expected to change anymore at this point.
17 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided together with this
21 The stable 1.4 release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x, 1.2.x and
22 any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.2.x it contains some
23 new features and more intrusive changes that were considered too risky as a
28 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
29 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
30 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
31 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
33 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
34 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
37 This module contains elements for, among others:
39 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
41 codecs: vorbis, theora
42 text: textoverlay, subparse
43 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
46 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
47 visualisation: libvisual
48 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
49 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
50 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
53 Other modules containing plugins are:
57 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
59 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
62 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
63 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
66 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
72 Bugs fixed in this release
74 * 730441 : dmabuf: shared the mapping with shared copies of the memory
75 * 731974 : videodecoder: parse source data until a frame is obtained
76 * 732459 : rtspconnection: tunneled connections do not work if POST channel is established first
77 * 732589 : gst_mikey_* not introspection-friendly
78 * 732593 : tests: codec-select: Plug element name memory leak
79 * 732595 : Introspection and documentation issues for new 1.4 symbols
80 * 732697 : riff: Hexprint invalid fourcc in error message
81 * 732709 : sdp: gstmikey.h not included by single include header (sdp.h)
82 * 732945 : giosink: Won't work with mp4mux
83 * 733046 : visual: Remove support for < 0.4
87 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
88 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
90 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
91 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
95 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
97 ==== Support and Bugs ====
99 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
100 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
102 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
104 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
105 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
107 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
111 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
112 from there (see link above).
114 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
115 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
118 Contributors to this release
125 * Sebastian Rasmussen