2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.7.91
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second 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.
17 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
18 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
19 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
20 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
21 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
25 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
26 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
27 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
28 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
32 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
33 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
34 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
35 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
36 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
37 depending on the other factors.
38 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
39 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
40 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
43 Other modules containing plugins are:
47 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
49 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
51 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
54 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
60 Bugs fixed in this release
62 * 743259 : tsdemux: bogus timestamp when PTS < PCR
63 * 756282 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] Move opus to -base
64 * 760566 : All the gleffects have the same name and description
65 * 762999 : Memory leak in qmlglsink
66 * 763045 : glmemoryallocator: Buffer size miss-match when mapping GLMemory without PBO
67 * 763079 : hls/Makefile.am missing OPENSSL_CFLAGS
68 * 763098 : ahcsrc: remove unused file
69 * 763168 : gldisplay: _get_gl_context_for_thread_unlocked looks suspicious
70 * 763220 : mpegvideoparse: Support non-hierarchical profile/level again [REGRESSION]
71 * 763356 : glimagesink: Fix window memory leak
72 * 763365 : glfilterapp not correctly drawing the default scene
73 * 763401 : Zero-copy video playback doesn't work on Android 4.x (QA 1.7.90)
74 * 763494 : h265parse: Segfault while tranforming hevc packetized stream to nal aligned bytestream
75 * 763503 : tsdemux can crash on shutdown
79 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
80 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
82 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
83 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
87 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
89 ==== Support and Bugs ====
91 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
92 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
94 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
96 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
97 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
99 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
103 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
104 from there (see link above).
106 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
107 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
110 Contributors to this release
122 * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
125 * Sreerenj Balachandran