2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.13 "What's Going on?"
6 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
7 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
8 GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
11 The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
12 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
13 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
17 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
18 plugins, and helper libraries.
20 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
21 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
24 This module contains elements for, among others:
26 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
28 codecs: vorbis, theora
29 text: textoverlay, subparse
30 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc
33 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume
34 visualisation: libvisual
35 video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
36 aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin
39 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
43 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
45 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
48 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
49 rigorous quality testing we expect
55 Features of this release
57 * Many fixes and improvements
58 * RTP and RTCP support improved
59 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
60 * Threadsafe design and API
62 Bugs fixed in this release
64 * 339838 : [audioconvert] support floats with non-native endianness
65 * 393975 : closing x/xvimagesink window crashes gst-launch
66 * 405072 : [API] add gst_tag_freeform_string_to_utf8()
67 * 413799 : [subparse] add support for MPL2 format
68 * 414645 : GstMixerTrack should make untranslated label available
69 * 420079 : [audioconvert] Uses biased rounding which results in dist...
70 * 420578 : [subparse] add more colour map in sami parser
71 * 421834 : videorate breaks on dimension changes
72 * 423051 : Vorbis tags of type double use locale-dependent formatting
73 * 423055 : Verify ReplayGain vorbistag processing in libs/tag testsuite
74 * 425455 : Decodebin2 leaks pads
75 * 426250 : GstPlayBaseBin leaks streaminfo objects
76 * 428187 : Rtp base depayloader class doesn't send new_segment after...
77 * 431672 : gst_base_rtp_audio_payload_push() should take object of i...
78 * 432362 : [ximagesink] doesn't build if XShm is not available
79 * 432755 : [videorate] leaks buffer if flow != OK
80 * 432984 : [baseaudiosrc] misleading warning message when dropping s...
81 * 433888 : [theoradec] does not generate a perfect stream
82 * 436562 : Theoradec doesn't work well with gnonlin
83 * 438840 : [theoradec] does not compile with old version of libtheora
84 * 440997 : [gstriff] Doesn't handle width!=depth files with audio/x-...
85 * 441295 : audioconvert doesn't build on VS6
86 * 442024 : regression in playbin buffering
87 * 350299 : [playbin] " Internal data flow error " opening movie with s...
88 * 410039 : totem crashed with SIGSEGV in new_decoded_pad_full()
89 * 340842 : do latency calculation for live sources
90 * 341078 : RB does not play beyond initially downloaded podcast file
91 * 414496 : [id3demux, id3v2mux] Add support for GST_TAG_MUSICBRAINZ_...
93 API changed in this release
97 * add gst_tag_freeform_string_to_utf8()
98 * GstRTPBuffer::gst_rtp_buffer_default_clock_rate()
99 * GstBaseAudioSink::slave-method property
100 * add "min-ptime" property to RTP base audio payloader
101 * gst_base_rtp_audio_payload_push()
102 * gst_base_rtp_audio_payload_get_adapter()
103 * GstMixerTrack::untranslated-label property
107 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
108 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
112 More details can be found on the project's website:
113 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
117 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
118 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
122 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
123 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
124 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
125 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
126 will create more lists as necessary.
131 Contributors to this release
150 * Thomas Vander Stichele
156 * Zaheer Abbas Merali