2 Release notes for GStreamer libav Plugins 1.8.0
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the new stable
5 1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of
6 the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x
7 release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
10 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly after
11 the source release by the GStreamer project during the stable 1.8 release
15 This module contains plugins based on the libav project, including codecs.
19 Other modules containing plugins are:
23 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
25 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
27 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
30 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
31 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
38 Bugs fixed in this release
40 * 763940 : 'configure' using system libav always fails with " Uncompatible libavcodec found "
44 You can find source releases of gst-libav in the download
45 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/
47 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
48 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/
52 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
54 ==== Support and Bugs ====
56 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
57 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
59 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
61 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
62 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
64 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
68 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
69 from there (see link above).
71 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
72 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
75 Contributors to this release