2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.3.2
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
6 1.3 release series. The 1.3 release series is adding new features on top of
7 the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
8 series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.3 release series
9 will lead to the stable 1.4 release series in the next weeks, and newly added
10 API can still change until that point.
14 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
15 during the unstable 1.3 release series.
19 The versioning scheme that is used in general is that 1.x.y is API and
20 ABI backwards compatible with previous 1.x.y releases. If x is an even
21 number it is a stable release series and all releases in this series
22 will only contain important bugfixes, e.g. the 1.0 series with 1.0.7. If
23 x is odd it is a development release series that will lead to the next
24 stable release series 1.x+1 and contains new features and bigger
25 changes. During the development release series, new API can still
33 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
34 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
35 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
36 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
37 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
41 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
42 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
43 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
44 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
48 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
49 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
50 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
51 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
52 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
53 depending on the other factors.
54 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
55 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
56 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
59 Other modules containing plugins are:
63 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
65 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
67 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
70 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
76 Bugs fixed in this release
78 * 721685 : mpegtsmux: Remove unused data in TsMuxSection
79 * 723167 : curlsftpsink: allow remote host authentication by public key fingerprint
80 * 726666 : gl: error: redundant redeclaration of numerous GL functions
81 * 728234 : gl: Don't unconditonally use EGL extensions
82 * 729542 : glimagesink: pool may never be activated, which leads to crash
83 * 729588 : glimagesink: cannot play 1080p on RPI
84 * 729614 : PNM Encoder is Encoding 0 x 0 images
85 * 729658 : gl: wrong negotiated caps when using eglimage
86 * 729742 : glcolorconvert: Should set alpha to 1 if source is opaque
87 * 729743 : glcolorconvert: Should preserve alpha channel when doing AYUV - > ARGB
88 * 729861 : glfilter: lose some caps informations like the framerate
89 * 729896 : glupload: Ignores stride when uploading raw data
90 * 730069 : gl: Crash when setting invalid GST_GL_PLATFORM
91 * 730133 : motioncells:fix memleak
92 * 730459 : curlsshsink: post error on bus in element, not transfer thread
93 * 729551 : GstGLDisplay: mix platform and window
97 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
98 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
100 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
101 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
105 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
107 ==== Support and Bugs ====
109 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
110 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
112 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
114 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
115 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
117 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
121 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
122 from there (see link above).
124 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
125 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
128 Contributors to this release
135 * Luis de Bethencourt
140 * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet