2 Release notes for GStreamer Base 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.
14 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
15 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
16 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
17 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
19 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
20 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
23 This module contains elements for, among others:
25 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
27 codecs: vorbis, theora
28 text: textoverlay, subparse
29 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
32 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
33 visualisation: libvisual
34 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
35 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
36 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
39 Other modules containing plugins are:
43 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
45 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
48 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
49 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
52 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
58 Bugs fixed in this release
60 * 761257 : multisocketsink: doesn't handle client close and EWOULDBLOCK
61 * 761588 : opusdec: no mono/stereo channel conversion
62 * 761851 : video: add orc UYVY422 to GRAY8 conversion function
63 * 762451 : id3v2frames: read conductor tag
64 * 762674 : Compilation error building html in gst-plugins-base-1.7.2
68 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
69 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
71 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
72 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
76 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
78 ==== Support and Bugs ====
80 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
81 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
83 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
85 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
86 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
88 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
92 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
93 from there (see link above).
95 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
96 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
99 Contributors to this release
105 * Luis de Bethencourt