2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.15 "Ending the war"
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 * Add barcode scanner plugin using the zbar library
64 * Improvements to camerabin
65 * Support audio-track format switching in DVD
66 * Improve parsing and display of PGS subpictures
68 * Add LV2 plugin support
69 * Improve VDPAU plugin. Add post-processing support
70 * Add videomeasure plugin
72 * Improved Directshow capture element
73 * Add EAC3 mapping in MPEG-TS playback
74 * Improve AAC encoding
75 * Improved MIDI file playback
76 * Improve H-264 parsing
78 * Add PNM encoder and decoder
80 * Update GLib dependency to GLib 2.16
81 * Various other bug fixes and improvements (see ChangeLog)
83 Bugs fixed in this release
85 * 303975 : Add tar support
86 * 519001 : [wildmidi] Doesn't handle seeking correctly
87 * 575261 : Do not use the outdated Debian/Ubuntu libass libraries!
88 * 583901 : aacparse fails for remuxing
89 * 589609 : [PATCH] fix dvdspu crash when subtitles do not fit the incoming video
90 * 593348 : faac encoder produces first buffer with wrong duration
91 * 593625 : Broken Compilation, missing files with latest commits in git repository
92 * 593683 : Typo in variable name for libraries to link against
93 * 593864 : pcapparse: Set the GStreamer timestamp according to the pcap timestamps
94 * 594030 : [mpegtsdemux] Support for AC3/EAC3 not 100% correct
95 * 594277 : Make the default segment of outputselector TIME instead of UNDEFINED
96 * 594278 : dshowvideosink: remove unused variable
97 * 594279 : dshowsrcwrapper: use tchar macro for string literals
98 * 594321 : Videomeasure plugin
99 * 594382 : assrender: Fix compilation with libass = 0.9.6
100 * 594489 : broken compilation for mpegdemux
101 * 594715 : libgstsignalprocessor install issues
102 * 594812 : [mpegpsdemux] Seeking broken for MPEG PS cut from VOB file
103 * 595215 : PNM encoder doesn't support ASCII encoding
104 * 595409 : PNM decoder can't decode ASCII encoded files.
105 * 596285 : gstvideomeasure crashes at the end of some streams
106 * 596743 : qtmux: fix flags_as_uint to flags[]
107 * 598139 : faad element leaks itself.
108 * 598263 : refcount leak in resindvd
109 * 598274 : dtsdec leaks input buffers
110 * 598369 : Properly detect pre-releases
111 * 598733 : id3mux doesn't write image to APIC tag
112 * 582779 : [resindvd] Add support for other audio codecs than ac3
113 * 595700 : PNM decoder doesn't handle ASCII encoded pnm data split over several buffers
117 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
118 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
122 More details can be found on the project's website:
123 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
127 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
128 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
132 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there.
133 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
134 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
135 will create more lists as necessary.
140 Contributors to this release
143 * Carl-Anton Ingmarsson
159 * Peter Christoffersen
169 * Zaheer Abbas Merali