2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.1 "Slimy - yet satisfying"
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
60 Features of this release
62 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
63 * Threadsafe design and API
64 * Lots of fixes for the QT/MOV demuxer, including
65 restoring the ability to play web streams, and more
69 * DirectFB plugin updated
70 * New plugins ported to 0.10: swfdec, XVid, dtsdec, glimagesink
71 * New libneon based http source filter
72 * APE tag reader moved to gst-plugins-good module
74 Bugs fixed in this release
76 * 303167 : Add bzip2 support
77 * 322973 : [wavpack] erroneous sampling rates range
78 * 326524 : Support for Indeo 3-encoded QuickTime files
79 * 327133 : [qtdemux] QuickTime with 8-bit audio
80 * 328854 : AAC+ stream not working with FAAD plugin
81 * 330089 : [bz2] Wrong mimetype and no typefinding
82 * 331302 : bz2 plugin source files lack copyright notices
83 * 331543 : crash on iTunes MPEG v4 AAC-LC files
84 * 331582 : [qtdemux] protect log statement against invalid memory ac...
88 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
89 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
93 More details can be found on the project's website:
94 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
98 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
99 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
103 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
104 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
105 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
106 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
107 will create more lists as necessary.
112 Contributors to this release
125 * Thomas Vander Stichele