2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.1.2
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix release
6 in the 1.x stable series of the
7 core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
10 The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
13 will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
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 Features of this release
66 Bugs fixed in this release
68 * 694068 : h264parser: Parse the cropping-rectangle separately.
69 * 560631 : [tsdemux] Handle carousel data (MHP, MHEG, ...)
70 * 614479 : [mpegtspacketizer] Use CRC to check if tables are duplicate
71 * 646327 : h264parse: Drop data before receiving the first PPS/SPS
72 * 664274 : [API] codecparsers: add gst_mpeg_video_parse_slice() and gst_mpeg_video_parse_sequence_scalable_extension()
73 * 677443 : [tsdemux/tsparse] Handle multiple SI in one packet
74 * 678148 : [tsdemux] missing timestamp on DVB subtitles
75 * 692933 : [API] codecparsers: mpeg2: add new API that takes GstMpegVideoPacket arguments
76 * 695475 : h264parser: Fix the return value type for the SEI palyload parsing methods.
77 * 698050 : tsdemux: seeking doesn't even work in pull mode
78 * 700489 : [dashdemux] Initialization blocks without URLs generate spurious critical errors
79 * 701421 : opencv: add foreground/background segmentation element
80 * 701509 : dashdemux selects first fragment in the manifest for live streams
81 * 701953 : wrappercamerabinsrc: Add video-source-filter during construction
82 * 701961 : dashdemux: Spurious critical if there is no initialization segment
83 * 702036 : curlsmtpsink: incorrect assert in gst_curl_smtp_sink_set_payload_headers_unlocked
84 * 702112 : waylandsink: add support for RGBx and RGBA formats
85 * 702174 : mpegvideoparse: Crash while transcoding to MPEG2 with encodebin while attaching parse meta
86 * 702206 : dashdemux: media range requests not supported
87 * 702297 : opencv: build broken - c++ header indirectly included into c code (gstsegmentation.h contains a .hpp)
88 * 702422 : tsparse: Ensure initial events are sent in the right order
89 * 702677 : dashdemux: SegmentTemplates at multiple levels not aggregated
90 * 702684 : shmsink: shared memory filled when no clients connected
91 * 702724 : first-class miniobjects/API for mpeg-ts related SI (Service Information)
92 * 702837 : dashdemux: Cleanup use of xmlFree vs g_free
93 * 703264 : srtp: Key is required even if cipher and auth are null
94 * 703667 : codecparsers: mpeg2: add missing gtk-doc entries
95 * 703668 : codecparsers: mpeg2: fix video packet header size checks
96 * 703683 : POTFILES are out of date
100 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
101 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
103 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
104 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
108 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
110 ==== Support and Bugs ====
112 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
113 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
115 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
117 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
118 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
120 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
124 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
125 from there (see link above).
127 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
128 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
131 Contributors to this release
134 * Aleix Conchillo Flaque
136 * Andoni Morales Alastruey
148 * Miguel Casas-Sanchez
153 * Sreerenj Balachandran