2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.5 "Expedition to Lake Pahoe"
6 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
7 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
8 GStreamer Bad Plug-ins.
11 The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
12 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
13 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
20 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
21 cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B.
22 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
23 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
24 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
28 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
29 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
30 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
31 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
35 This module contains a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the
36 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
37 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
38 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
39 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
40 depending on the other factors.
41 If the plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
42 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
43 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
46 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
50 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
52 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
54 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
61 Features of this release
63 * New plugin - realdec for decoding Real streams using binary libs
64 * New plugin - MythTV source
65 * New plugin - appsrc (for application data insertion)
66 * New plugin - VMnc VMware capture decoder
67 * New plugin - JACK audio output
68 * New plugin - interleave/deinterleave
69 * New plugin - RTP manager
70 * New plugin - Bayer to RGB converter
71 * New plugin - ReplayGain support
72 * New plugin - DirectShow win32 input support
73 * New plugin - videosignal/videoanalyse
74 * LADSPA plugin improvements
75 * IIR equaliser ported to 0.10 (iirequalizer)
76 * libsndfile output ported to 0.10
77 * mpegvideoparse ported to 0.10 and improved
78 * switch element ported to 0.10
79 * VCD source element ported to 0.10
80 * AMR-WB support fixes
81 * MIDI renderer plugin based on timidity
82 * Windows and OS/X output plugins moved to the Good module
83 * qtdemux, wavpack and videocrop plugins moved to the Good module
84 * Many other bug fixes and improvements
85 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
86 * Threadsafe design and API
88 Bugs fixed in this release
90 * 152403 : [mpeg/DVB] Integrating externaly developped DVB source el...
91 * 333307 : AmrWB Plugin
92 * 345633 : [nassink] port to 0.10
93 * 354174 : [PATCH] add REAL support by using the proprietary drivers
94 * 354451 : [mythtvsrc] Plugin for MythTV source
95 * 357055 : Tremor (ivorbis) plug-in is unable to decode vorbis strea...
96 * 374773 : [qtdemux] [PLUGIN-MOVE] Move from -bad to good
97 * 375264 : [neonhttpsrc] add seek support
98 * 376591 : configure.ac looks for wrong symbols for FAAD support
99 * 382184 : Port interleave and deinterleave to 0.10 for audio channe...
100 * 388050 : [neonhttpsrc] code simplifications
101 * 392112 : [rfbsrc] doesn't build with MinGW
102 * 393622 : Not building real plugin, only works on 32bit x86 platforms.
103 * 395536 : [wavpackenc] Trivial cleanup
104 * 395597 : Deinterleave fails to negotiate with alsasrc when using D...
105 * 400555 : dts-in-wav: only 2 channel recognised
106 * 402470 : [osxvideosink] video sink for MacOSX
107 * 412077 : [speed] can't initially set speed > 1
108 * 412710 : [replaygain] Add playback elements
109 * 413818 : [neonhttpsrc] errors out on redirects
110 * 421110 : New x264enc plugin
111 * 421598 : [wavpack] Add support for non-8*n depths and don't play a...
112 * 423283 : [qtdemux] timestamps of outgoing h264 packets are wrong
113 * 423741 : [amrwb] use external shared libamrwb
114 * 430594 : Unable to compile gst-plugins-bad CVS
115 * 430598 : [realvideodec] dll functions not available on MinGW
116 * 430664 : name conflict for " rtpbin " element
117 * 437260 : CFLAGS are poinsoned by the OpenGL test
118 * 437403 : gst-plugins-bad uses #ifdef G_OS_WIN32 instead of #ifdef ...
119 * 437539 : Compilation of DirectDraw and DirectSound plugins using m...
120 * 439405 : YUV not working in GL image sink.
121 * 439910 : [switch] Warning in a debug function (Mingw)
122 * 439911 : [qtdemux] Warning in a debug function (MinGW)
123 * 439914 : [directdraw] Warnings when using MinGW
124 * 440466 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] osxvideo
125 * 440774 : [sdl] sdlvideosink has ill-formatted element details
126 * 442689 : [neon] Property-related cleanups of neonhttpsrc
127 * 445189 : PLUGIN-MOVE - Move Windows sinks to -good
128 * 348973 : New plugins: MVE muxer/demuxer
129 * 391971 : Fix build with gcc-2.x
130 * 392313 : [directdrawsink] dist and add to gst-plugins-bad
131 * 392638 : [directsoundsink] dist and add to gst-plugins-bad
132 * 392856 : [qtdemux] plugin must link against zlib (error with MinGW)
133 * 403572 : Port equaliser element to 0.10
134 * 352605 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] move wavpack to -good
135 * 426972 : Specific set of H.264 files cannot be played
136 * 434101 : [gsm] doesn't link against libgstbase-0.10
140 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
141 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
145 More details can be found on the project's website:
146 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
150 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
151 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
155 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
156 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
157 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
158 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
159 will create more lists as necessary.
164 Contributors to this release
168 * Andre Moreira Magalhaes
175 * James "Doc" Livingston
184 * Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
192 * Thomas Vander Stichele
198 * Zaheer Abbas Merali