2 Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins 0.10.9 "Back The Way It Was"
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
6 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
7 GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins.
10 The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
16 "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
19 There are times when the world needs a color between black and white.
20 Quality code to match the good's, but two-timing, backstabbing and ready to
21 sell your freedom down the river. These plug-ins might have a patent noose
22 around their neck, or a lock-up license, or any other problem that makes you
23 think twice about shipping them.
26 We don't call them ugly because we like them less. Does a mother love her
27 son less because he's not as pretty as the other ones ? No - she commends
28 him on his great personality. These plug-ins are the life of the party.
29 And we'll still step in and set them straight if you report any unacceptable
30 behaviour - because there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend:
31 those with a rope around their neck and the people who do the cutting.
34 This module contains a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct
35 functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license
36 on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd
37 like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems.
38 Distributors should check if they want/can ship these plug-ins.
41 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
45 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
47 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
49 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
50 rigorous quality testing we expect
55 Features of this release
57 * Improvements in a52 and mp3 decoding
58 * Bug fixes in Xing header muxer
59 * MPEG demuxer improvements and dvdreadsrc bug-fixes
60 * Fix build with LAME 3.97 and above
61 * Fix LAME parameter settings to allow setting the bitrate properly
63 Bugs fixed in this release
65 * 476149 : Fix and add needed features to dvdnavsrc
66 * 490372 : Variable bit rates are limited to 160 kbps in higher qual...
67 * 498004 : preset is ignored by lame plugin
68 * 540194 : [mpegdemux] Doesn't handle files with a non-zero start ti...
69 * 542646 : gstreamer endless loop by zzuf sample
70 * 544039 : [lame] Doesn't build with 3.97
71 * 545370 : playing some mp3s segfaults
72 * 546859 : Asfdemux doesn't properly error out on not-linked
73 * 548194 : a52dec doesn't set up segment for raw files correctly.
74 * 537235 : [mp3parse] some mp3 files do not play with gstreamer
78 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-ugly in the download directory:
79 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/
83 More details can be found on the project's website:
84 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
88 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
89 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
93 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
94 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
95 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
96 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
97 will create more lists as necessary.
102 Contributors to this release