2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.11 "A precious stone"
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 * Add ASS/SSA subtitle handling element assrender
64 * Leak fixes in the QuickTime decoder wrapper
65 * Better DirectShow output on Windows
66 * Extend QT muxing support to include AMR and H.263
68 * Extended MXF file format handling
69 * camerabin and photography API for digital camera interfacing
70 * Merge elements from Farsight: liveadder, sirendec, sirenenc, valve, rtpdtmfsrc, rtpdtmdepay, dtmfsrc, rtpdtmfmux, autoconvert, mimdec, mimenc
71 * typefinder based on xdgmime
73 Bugs fixed in this release
75 * 573369 : [gstfaad] Memory corruption and segfault
76 * 568704 : Metadatamux: unable to configure byte order for EXIF
77 * 354908 : videoflipping interface for v4l2src
78 * 369912 : missing inclusion in rpm spec file
79 * 469930 : [mmssrc] seeking support PATCH
80 * 481075 : Full support for ASS/SSA subtitles
81 * 549645 : merge useful elements from gst-plugins-farsight into core
82 * 567003 : [ladspa] improve plugin scanning
83 * 567371 : [mpegtsparse] memory leak in mpegtspacketizer
84 * 567828 : rtpmanager and RTCP BYE packet
85 * 567965 : [flvdemux] add support for ECMA arrays in script tags
86 * 568480 : gst-plugins-bad dccp plugin won't compile on Soalris
87 * 568483 : Problems linking gst-plugins-bad
88 * 568837 : RFE: allow building against the system modplug library
89 * 569323 : [qtmux] should support audio/AMR sink
90 * 570996 : bpmdetect relibably crashes with SIGSEGV on particular file
91 * 571560 : gstdshowaudio decoder doesn't compile.
92 * 572315 : Compiling camerabin on Windows with Visual Studio
93 * 572900 : gstrtpsession should not forward recv side event to the s...
94 * 573288 : [mpegtsdemux] memory leak when pusi is missed due to pack...
95 * 573391 : [videoanalyse] Wrong brightness calculation
96 * 575157 : xdgmime typefinder: make more conservative
97 * 575565 : [mxf] mxf plugin uses symbols not in glib 2.6 (minimum gl...
98 * 564114 : [PATCH] fbdev: fix depth calculation
99 * 573850 : Use Glib's byte order in gstgsmdec
100 * 573851 : Use glib integer types in gstfaad
101 * 172043 : [mpegpsdemux] wrong video length on mpeg file
105 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
106 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
110 More details can be found on the project's website:
111 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
115 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
116 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
120 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there.
121 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
122 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
123 will create more lists as necessary.
128 Contributors to this release
161 * Thiago Sousa Santos
167 * philippe.kalaf@collabora.co.uk
171 * zeeshan.ali@nokia.com