2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.7.90
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the 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 release
7 series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
10 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
11 during the stable 1.8 release series.
17 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
18 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
19 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
20 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
21 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
25 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
26 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
27 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
28 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
32 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
33 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
34 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
35 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
36 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
37 depending on the other factors.
38 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
39 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
40 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
43 Other modules containing plugins are:
47 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
49 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
51 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
54 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
60 Bugs fixed in this release
62 * 676425 : aiffparse: fails to extract channel layout for multichannel files
63 * 757610 : compositor: negotation failure when mixing alpha and non alpha branches
64 * 760873 : GstGLVideoMixerPad vertex_buffer leaks when pad dynamic removed
65 * 761003 : Error getting OpenGL context when qml item when scene graph is initialized.
66 * 762148 : dashdemux: correctly handle an HTTP-XSDATE that is exactly the size of the date string
67 * 762351 : codecparsers: h265: Fix initialization of slice_deblocking_filter_disabled_flag
68 * 762482 : fbdevsink SIGSEGV
69 * 762519 : doc: audiointerleave doesn't appear in the doc
70 * 762575 : avfvideosrc: Crashes with uncaught exception - wrong type for AVCaptureDevice.activeVideoMinFrameDuration
71 * 762613 : playbin regression: On failure of vtdec_hw, playbin errors out and doesn't fall back to avdec_h264
72 * 762620 : Playback stutters with avdec_h264 via glimagesink on OSX (gst_gl_context_is_shared() returning FALSE)
73 * 762684 : hlsdemux: tests: pass test name into test setup function
74 * 762842 : vulkan: Fix GError memory leak
78 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
79 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
81 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
82 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
86 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
88 ==== Support and Bugs ====
90 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
91 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
93 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
95 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
96 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
98 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
102 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
103 from there (see link above).
105 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
106 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
109 Contributors to this release
121 * Sreerenj Balachandran