2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.9.2
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
5 1.9 release series, which marks the feature freeze for 1.10. The 1.9 release
6 series is adding new features on top of the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8 series
7 and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer
8 multimedia framework. The unstable 1.9 release series will lead to the stable
9 1.10 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added API can still change
13 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.
16 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
17 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
18 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
19 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
21 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
22 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
25 This module contains elements for, among others:
27 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
29 codecs: vorbis, theora
30 text: textoverlay, subparse
31 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
34 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
35 visualisation: libvisual
36 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
37 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
38 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
41 Other modules containing plugins are:
45 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
47 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
50 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
51 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
54 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
60 Bugs fixed in this release
62 * 761514 : riff: remove limits for sample rate and channel count
63 * 766419 : videotimecode: Added support for SMPTE time code metadata
64 * 767816 : Comparison of constant 64 with expression of type 'GstVideoFormat' is always false in Mac OS X
65 * 768495 : POTFILES.in is out of date
66 * 768525 : subparse: don't reset allowed tags
67 * 768687 : Rework video orientation
68 * 768718 : videoscale: fix leak in test
69 * 768811 : decodebin3/playbin3: fix leaks
70 * 768852 : appsink: add _try_pull_{sample,preroll} with timeout parameter
71 * 768990 : audioclock: use GST_STIME_FORMAT for the correct argument
72 * 769080 : decodebin3: fix collection refcounting
73 * 769270 : decodebin3/playbin3: fix ref handling
74 * 769298 : decodebin3: handle full removal of streams
75 * 769299 : ogg: check return values in gst_ogg_parse_new_stream
76 * 769303 : pbutils: Add more h264 scalable profiles
77 * 769624 : videorate: Does not support reverse playback
78 * 770053 : parsebin: sometimes sets global tags to stream
82 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
83 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
85 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
86 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
90 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
92 ==== Support and Bugs ====
94 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
95 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
97 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
99 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
100 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
102 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
106 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
107 from there (see link above).
109 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
110 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
113 Contributors to this release
116 * Carlos Rafael Giani
119 * Guillaume Desmottes
123 * Luis de Bethencourt
129 * Sergio Torres Soldado
131 * Sreerenj Balachandran
138 * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
140 * Xabier Rodriguez Calvar