2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.3 "Water"
5 The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
6 in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.
9 The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
10 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
11 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.
14 This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding,
15 conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media
16 handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module
17 to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long
18 as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.
21 The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If you
22 want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this
23 module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based colorspace
24 element has been added to the Plugins however.
27 Features of this release
29 * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
30 * Internationalization
31 * New translation in this release: Czech
32 * New translation in this release: Hungarian
33 * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nl sr sv uk
34 * pixel aspect ratio conversion
35 * tcpserversink fixes and additions
37 * theoraenc and theoradec fixes
38 * ximagesink and xvimagesink fixes
40 * videoscale and ffmpegcolorspace fixes for stride
42 * win32 project file additions
43 * new elements: playbin and decodebin
44 * new element: multifdsink
47 * new element: multifilesink
49 Bugs fixed in this release
51 * 141906 : hang on removing ximagesink from a pipeline
52 * 142432 : Wrong sink MIME type in shout2send
53 * 143222 : [oggdemux] Optimize tag reading
54 * 143548 : Please update libtool to fix build on arm
55 * 143703 : duration always 0 for some (gst produced) .ogg files
56 * 144624 : wavenc doesn't close file properly
57 * 144753 : libgstinterfaces should be split, or: 'volume' should not...
58 * 144815 : [alsasink] gst_element_set_time_delay() assertion failure...
59 * 144866 : [flac] seeking broken, duration not set on buffers [PATCH]
60 * 144941 : alsasink assertion failure on ctrl+z and fg
61 * 145031 : totem CVS won't compile because of gst-play ...
62 * 145088 : gnome-volume-control has unlocalized volume names.
63 * 145118 : Compile error (gcc 2.95, alsa)
64 * 145336 : pipeline broke-stonecold
65 * 147969 : LADSPA plugin should sanitize the info from the .so's to ...
66 * 148021 : Bug in lib-riff
67 * 148023 : [ximagesink] doesn't work with Xnest
68 * 148043 : audioconvert
69 * 148289 : mad plugin crashes on Sun
70 * 148505 : [level] for silence peak is reported wrongly
71 * 148986 : [lame] bug in negotiation
75 You can find source releases of gst-plugins in the download directory:
76 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/
80 More details can be found on the project's website:
81 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
85 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
86 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
90 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
91 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
92 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
93 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
94 will create more lists as necessary.
99 The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found
100 under /system/gstreamer/0.8. Applications should use the gconf library,
101 as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.
104 Contributors to this release
120 * Thomas Vander Stichele
122 * Zaheer Abbas Merali