2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.1.3
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.
17 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
18 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
19 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
20 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
22 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
23 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
26 This module contains elements for, among others:
28 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
30 codecs: vorbis, theora
31 text: textoverlay, subparse
32 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
35 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
36 visualisation: libvisual
37 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
38 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
39 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
42 Other modules containing plugins are:
46 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
48 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
51 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
52 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
55 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
61 Features of this release
64 Bugs fixed in this release
66 * 643202 : encodebin: streamcombiner not completely implemented
67 * 585969 : playbin: Position/Duration information mismatch on track change
68 * 681368 : typefinding: CSV file is detected as MP3
69 * 700537 : oggdemux: Drops frames because it needs a keyframe after a seek
70 * 702380 : basertppayload: provide a GstBufferPool for output rtp buffers
71 * 703259 : video: Add support for NV24 video format
72 * 703659 : allocators: dmabuf: allow testing allocator type
73 * 704070 : video: Add Region Of Interest (roi) meta
74 * 704194 : playbin: glib warning when setting sink properties to NULL
75 * 704198 : rtspconnection: Removes child sources and adds them again later
76 * 704285 : playbin: incorrect sorting of decoders when autoplugging
77 * 704427 : streamsynchronizer: Assumes that a different stream-id on one stream means a new stream-group (problem when switching streams)
78 * 704706 : streamcombiner: Must proxy all sink events
79 * 704774 : appsrc: add " current-level-bytes " property
80 * 705048 : audiorate, videorate: drop GAP event
81 * 705062 : tagdemux: push mode code doesn't handle seeks
85 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
86 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
88 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
89 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
93 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
95 ==== Support and Bugs ====
97 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
98 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
100 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
102 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
103 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
105 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
109 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
110 from there (see link above).
112 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
113 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
116 Contributors to this release
124 * Mathieu Duponchelle
125 * Miguel Casas-Sanchez
127 * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet