1 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.0.0
3 The GStreamer project is pleased to announce the very first release of the
4 new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
6 The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI
7 compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed in parallel
8 with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
10 Major improvements include: more flexible memory handling; extensible and
11 negotiable metadata for buffers; caps negotiation and renegotiation mechanisms,
12 decoupled from buffer allocation; improved caps renegotiation; automatic
13 re-sending of state for dynamic pipelines; reworked and more fine-grained pad
14 probing; simpler and more descriptive audio and video caps; more efficient
15 allocation of buffers, events and other mini objects; improved timestamp
16 handling; support for gobject-inspection-based language bindings; countless
19 Most of these changes involve the GStreamer plugin API. The application API
20 has changed comparatively little, and most applications should be fairly easy
21 to port to the new API. There is a porting guide available.
23 The GStreamer team would like to thank everyone who helped bring this release
24 about, whether by submitting patches, reporting bugs, testing, sponsoring
25 development, attending hackfests, or simply supplying moral support.
27 This is the end of a long development process, but also the beginning of
28 one. This release does not mark the pinnacle of perfection, but the point
29 where the team is content with the API and stability and quality of the code
30 base in general, especially compared to the old 0.10 series.
32 There will be bugs to fix, and starting from this release there will be
33 distinct bug-fixing and feature development cycles, with the goal of getting
34 bug-fixes out quicker and unencumbered by other more risky changes. See
36 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReleasePlanning/RoadMap
38 for a tentative road map and possible schedule.
44 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
45 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
46 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
47 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
48 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
51 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
52 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
53 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
54 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
57 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
58 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
59 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
60 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
61 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
62 depending on the other factors.
63 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
64 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
65 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
68 Other modules containing plugins are:
70 gst-plugins-base : a basic set of well-supported plugins
71 gst-plugins-good : a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
72 gst-plugins-ugly : a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems
74 gst-libav : a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
78 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
80 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
82 ==== GStreamer Homepage
84 More details can be found on the project's website:
86 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
90 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
92 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
94 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bugs/
98 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be
99 cloned from there. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and
100 applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list and/or pop into
101 our #gstreamer IRC channel on Freenode.
103 ==== Contributors to this release
107 Aleix Conchillo Flaque
109 Andoni Morales Alastruey
110 Andre Moreira Magalhaes (andrunko)
120 Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
122 Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula
127 Fabrizio (Misto) Milo
148 Oleksij Rempel (Alexey Fisher)
157 Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
163 Sreerenj Balachandran
168 Thomas Vander Stichele