2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.5 "Expedition to Lake Pahoe"
6 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
7 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
8 GStreamer Bad 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.
20 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
21 cover up the truth - these plug-ins 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 plug-ins 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 plug-ins 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 plug-ins are:
50 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
52 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
54 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
61 Features of this release
63 * New plugin - realdec for decoding Real streams using binary libs
64 * New plugin - MythTV source
65 * New plugin - appsrc (for application data insertion)
66 * New plugin - VMnc VMware capture decoder
67 * New plugin - JACK audio output
68 * New plugin - interleave/deinterleave
69 * New plugin - RTP manager
70 * New plugin - Bayer to RGB converter
71 * New plugin - ReplayGain support
72 * New plugin - DirectShow win32 input support
73 * New plugin - videosignal/videoanalyse
74 * LADSPA plugin improvements
75 * IIR equaliser ported to 0.10 (iirequalizer)
76 * libsndfile output ported to 0.10
77 * mpegvideoparse ported to 0.10 and improved
78 * switch element ported to 0.10
79 * AMR-WB support fixes
80 * MIDI renderer plugin based on timidity
81 * Windows and OS/X output plugins moved to the Good module
82 * qtdemux, wavpack and videocrop plugins moved to the Good module
83 * Many other bug fixes and improvements
84 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
85 * Threadsafe design and API
87 Bugs fixed in this release
89 * 152403 : [mpeg/DVB] Integrating externaly developped DVB source el...
90 * 333307 : AmrWB Plugin
91 * 345633 : [nassink] port to 0.10
92 * 354174 : [PATCH] add REAL support by using the proprietary drivers
93 * 354451 : [mythtvsrc] Plugin for MythTV source
94 * 357055 : Tremor (ivorbis) plug-in is unable to decode vorbis strea...
95 * 374773 : [qtdemux] [PLUGIN-MOVE] Move from -bad to good
96 * 375264 : [neonhttpsrc] add seek support
97 * 376591 : configure.ac looks for wrong symbols for FAAD support
98 * 382184 : Port interleave and deinterleave to 0.10 for audio channe...
99 * 388050 : [neonhttpsrc] code simplifications
100 * 392112 : [rfbsrc] doesn't build with MinGW
101 * 393622 : Not building real plugin, only works on 32bit x86 platforms.
102 * 395536 : [wavpackenc] Trivial cleanup
103 * 395597 : Deinterleave fails to negotiate with alsasrc when using D...
104 * 400555 : dts-in-wav: only 2 channel recognised
105 * 402470 : [osxvideosink] video sink for MacOSX
106 * 412077 : [speed] can't initially set speed > 1
107 * 412710 : [replaygain] Add playback elements
108 * 413818 : [neonhttpsrc] errors out on redirects
109 * 421110 : New x264enc plugin
110 * 421598 : [wavpack] Add support for non-8*n depths and don't play a...
111 * 423283 : [qtdemux] timestamps of outgoing h264 packets are wrong
112 * 423741 : [amrwb] use external shared libamrwb
113 * 430594 : Unable to compile gst-plugins-bad CVS
114 * 430598 : [realvideodec] dll functions not available on MinGW
115 * 430664 : name conflict for " rtpbin " element
116 * 437260 : CFLAGS are poinsoned by the OpenGL test
117 * 437403 : gst-plugins-bad uses #ifdef G_OS_WIN32 instead of #ifdef ...
118 * 437539 : Compilation of DirectDraw and DirectSound plugins using m...
119 * 439405 : YUV not working in GL image sink.
120 * 439910 : [switch] Warning in a debug function (Mingw)
121 * 439911 : [qtdemux] Warning in a debug function (MinGW)
122 * 439914 : [directdraw] Warnings when using MinGW
123 * 440466 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] osxvideo
124 * 440774 : [sdl] sdlvideosink has ill-formatted element details
125 * 442689 : [neon] Property-related cleanups of neonhttpsrc
126 * 445189 : PLUGIN-MOVE - Move Windows sinks to -good
127 * 348973 : New plugins: MVE muxer/demuxer
128 * 391971 : Fix build with gcc-2.x
129 * 392313 : [directdrawsink] dist and add to gst-plugins-bad
130 * 392638 : [directsoundsink] dist and add to gst-plugins-bad
131 * 392856 : [qtdemux] plugin must link against zlib (error with MinGW)
132 * 403572 : Port equaliser element to 0.10
133 * 352605 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] move wavpack to -good
134 * 426972 : Specific set of H.264 files cannot be played
135 * 434101 : [gsm] doesn't link against libgstbase-0.10
139 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
140 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
144 More details can be found on the project's website:
145 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
149 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
150 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
154 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
155 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
156 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
157 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
158 will create more lists as necessary.
163 Contributors to this release
167 * Andre Moreira Magalhaes
174 * James "Doc" Livingston
183 * Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
191 * Thomas Vander Stichele
197 * Zaheer Abbas Merali