2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer PluginsĀ 0.8.5 "Take You On"
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: Oriya
32 * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nl or sq sr sv uk
33 * licensing corrections
35 * pixel aspect ratio conversion fixes
53 * speex now actually works
55 Bugs fixed in this release
57 * 121809 : [Solaris] Not able to record
58 * 130682 : [alsasink] fails to negotiate with audio decoders
59 * 135407 : [xviddec] shows green frames when decoding packed bitstre...
60 * 140432 : Osssink and alsasink broken on nforce2 (intel8x0) soundcard
61 * 140897 : Incorrect segment duration in files created with matroska...
62 * 140898 : No writing application specified in matroska files create...
63 * 141554 : vorbis in matroska files makes the vorbisdec plugin segfault
64 * 144091 : [Solaris] audio mixer element
65 * 144616 : Infinite loop in wavparse.
66 * 148711 : typefind function for TTA audio files
67 * 148950 : matroskademux doesn't set buffer duration
68 * 148951 : matroskademux misses the tta codec in its codec list
69 * 151232 : [lame] doesn't build with lame-3.90
70 * 151236 : [v4l] compile failure
71 * 151410 : Memory leaks in multifdsink
72 * 151462 : theora plugin Makefile broken
73 * 151877 : [PATCH] Fix bad casts in ximagesink.c
74 * 151879 : [PATCH] fix bad pointer casts in xvimagesink.c
75 * 151881 : [PATCH] Fix format strings for amd64 in seek.c
76 * 151882 : [PATCH] Fix format string warnings in spider_seek.c
77 * 151883 : [PATCH] fix cdplayer.c warnings on amd64
78 * 151884 : [PATCH] Fix format string warnings in cdparanoia.c
79 * 151886 : [PATCH] Fix format string warnings in vorbisfile.c
80 * 151887 : [PATCH] Fix format string warnings in player.c
81 * 152102 : wavenc leaks events
82 * 152341 : patch for ivorbis compile failure
83 * 154301 : typefind and rmdemux don't use the same mime type for rea...
87 You can find source releases of gst-plugins in the download directory:
88 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/
92 More details can be found on the project's website:
93 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
97 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
98 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
102 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
103 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
104 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
105 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
106 will create more lists as necessary.
111 The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found
112 under /system/gstreamer/0.8. Applications should use the gconf library,
113 as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.
116 Contributors to this release
119 * Balamurali Viswanathan
138 * Thomas Vander Stichele
140 * Zaheer Abbas Merali