2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.1.1
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 * 689191 : d3dvideosink improvements
69 * 683142 : h264parse: should proxy demuxer width+height (incorrectly reports Canon MOV resolution as 1920x1088 instead of 1920x1080)
70 * 685103 : mpegvideoparse: wrong pixel-aspect-ratio
71 * 629117 : Move rtpmux elements to -good
72 * 638578 : Add support for 12 bit sRGB JPEG-2000 images
73 * 642669 : interlace: Improve and extend field patterns
74 * 654479 : Support DVB-S2
75 * 660866 : [videoparsers] Should passthrough framerate/pixel-aspect-ratio/etc in caps
76 * 675625 : dashdemux: a streaming client supporting the new MPEG DASH standard
77 * 677575 : [mxf] Port mxfmux/mxfdemux to 0.11/1.0
78 * 677701 : MJPEG2000 playback stutters
79 * 680200 : tsdemux: extract language-code of dvb subtitles into tags
80 * 680700 : decklinksrc does not forward EOS events passed via send_event
81 * 681359 : shmsink segfaults under certain conditions
82 * 683169 : mpeg4videoparse doesn't handle VOP_coded=0 properly
83 * 683192 : assrender: stuck on first video frame with mewmew-vorbis-ssa.mkv
84 * 684339 : shm: use O_CLOEXEC where appropriate in shmpipe
85 * 684568 : codecparsers: h264: fix error code for invalid size parsed in SPS
86 * 684683 : assrender: fix unit tests
87 * 685163 : accuraterip: new element for AccurateRip calculation
88 * 685655 : opencv: added OpenCV-based hand gesture detection plugin
89 * 686948 : Wrong name for GstStructure representing CAT
90 * 687176 : mpg123: finalizer function is unnecessary
91 * 687237 : OpenCV elements compile with 2.4.2
92 * 687262 : Move scaletempo to -good
93 * 687263 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] move VP8 RTP elements to -good
94 * 687416 : Move DTMF plugin to -good
95 * 687520 : gstdvbsuboverlay.h contains old FSF address
96 * 687840 : Gst-plugins-bad fails to build
97 * 688486 : GstPhotography: add new enum values for android
98 * 689562 : vdpau: port to 1.0
99 * 689822 : hlssink: Memory leak and minor fixes
100 * 690030 : HLS makefile is missing gst_plugins_base_libs
101 * 690033 : mmssrc: fails to compile on windows, error: format '%I64i'
102 * 690128 : Directsoundsrc fails to compile
103 * 690555 : Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) plugin
104 * 690582 : Import bluez plugins into -bad and port to 1.0
105 * 690892 : switch midi support from libwildmidi to libfluidsynth or libtimidity
106 * 691117 : shmsink perms get only a copy and past of set
107 * 691843 : mxf unit test hangs forever until it times out
108 * 692012 : assrender: fix, re-enable and add overlay support
109 * 692045 : uvch264src: port to 1.0
110 * 692272 : codecparsers: vc1: drop superfluous DQBEDGE
111 * 692388 : [API] codecparsers: vc1: parse slice headers
112 * 692461 : codecparsers: vc1: fix bitplanes decoding (DIFF6 or NORM6)
113 * 692789 : H264parse overwrites codec_data field before comparing old one and new one
114 * 693140 : [API] codecparsers: h264: add profile enums
115 * 693322 : Don't use deprecated GLib threading API
116 * 693628 : mxfdemux: add a second MXF UL for uncompressed audio; ignore missing metadata descriptors
117 * 693665 : eglglessink: add support for Raspberry Pi
118 * 695412 : mpegtsmux AAC ADTS header seems incorrect
119 * 695897 : Compilation errors on srtp
120 * 696041 : Port a midi decoder to 1.0
121 * 696392 : gst-plugins-bad fails to build unless gnutls is present...
122 * 696597 : hls: fails to build with older gnutls versions
123 * 697176 : d3dvideosink: use the bilinear scalling filter as much as possible
124 * 697305 : opencv: handdetect: compile error on OS/X
125 * 697694 : watchdog: race causing deadlock in stop
126 * 697834 : mpegpsdemux: decrease logging priority for repeating messages
127 * 697892 : mpegtsdemux: Add support for DigiCipher II stream type.
128 * 698013 : openal: port to 1.0
129 * 698349 : mssdemux: new plugin for smoothstreaming support
130 * 698649 : eglglessink: Wrong picture scaling on RPi
131 * 698679 : h264parse doesn't set proper caps on src pad on changes in the sink pad
132 * 698854 : [applemedia] Several improvements for the applemedia plugins
133 * 698927 : LADSPA improved port to gstreamer 1.0
134 * 699398 : mpegvideoparse: couple of issues
135 * 699446 : d3dvideosink: Don't use deprecated GLib threading API
136 * 699919 : vdpau: Add VdpVideoSurface caps feature
137 * 699921 : smoothstreaming: Padname '':audio_00 does not belong to element mssdemux0 when removing
138 * 700058 : The EGL display wrapper should allow delegate the eglTerminate call
139 * 700328 : ladspa: Build issues when lrdf is found
140 * 700420 : mimic: Missing segment event
141 * 700521 : androidmedia: crop_top should be divided by 2 in COLOR_FormatYUV420 converting
142 * 700654 : opencv skin colour detection plugin
143 * 700886 : curlsmtpsink: terminate transfer thread properly
144 * 700903 : tsdemux: possible descriptor string leak
148 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
149 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
151 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
152 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
156 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
158 ==== Support and Bugs ====
160 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
161 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
163 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
165 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
166 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
168 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
172 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
173 from there (see link above).
175 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
176 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
179 Contributors to this release
181 * Aleix Conchillo Flaque
187 * Andoni Morales Alastruey
188 * Andre Moreira Magalhaes (andrunko)
196 * Carlos Rafael Giani
199 * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
207 * Fabricio Costa Alisedo
214 * Jean-François Fortin Tam
218 * Jose Antonio Santos Cadenas
220 * Juan Manuel Borges Caño
224 * Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne
226 * Luciana Fujii Pontello
227 * Luiz Augusto von Dentz
238 * Miguel Casas-Sanchez
240 * Ole André Vadla Ravnås
250 * Sebastian Rasmussen
253 * Sreerenj Balachandran
260 * Tim 'mithro' Ansell