2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.1.2
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix release
6 in the 1.x stable series of the
7 core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
10 The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
13 will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
17 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
18 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
19 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
20 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
22 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
23 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
26 This module contains elements for, among others:
28 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
30 codecs: vorbis, theora
31 text: textoverlay, subparse
32 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
35 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
36 visualisation: libvisual
37 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
38 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
39 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
42 Other modules containing plugins are:
46 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
48 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
51 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
52 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
55 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
61 Features of this release
64 Bugs fixed in this release
66 * 696300 : H264 video is playing too fast because of invalid PTS:
67 * 698562 : rtpbuffer: broken language bindings for gst_rtp_buffer_get_payload
68 * 700967 : playbin: sink messages are not received in the bus
69 * 701798 : rtspsrc: Regression with connections to certain live stream
70 * 701924 : tests: add playbin test for autoplugging of decoder-sink combination based on capsfeatures
71 * 701943 : playbin: unit tests fail
72 * 701997 : [regression] playbin: loses audio clock and hangs when switching songs after about-to-finish
73 * 702195 : playbin: Emit {audio,text,video}-changed signals when pads are removed
74 * 702215 : pbutils: descriptions: Allow smart codec tag handling
75 * 702465 : playsink: Fix the block diagram of deinterlace bin.
76 * 702467 : audiobasesrc: missing calls to gst_buffer_unmap
77 * 702545 : tags: xmp: adding tags is very slow
78 * 702652 : rtspconnection: tunneled connections do not work
79 * 702840 : queue2 does not work with use-buffering=true
80 * 703088 : rtspsrc parse error race condition
81 * 703119 : rtpbasepayload leaks the segment event
82 * 703196 : videoencoder: Send all pending events with type < CAPS before sending caps.
83 * 703256 : typefind: Fix low probability typefinding for video/mpeg on small amount of data
84 * 703477 : audioresample: disable NEON code path for 16-bit integer
85 * 703684 : POTFILES.in is out of date
89 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
90 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
92 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
93 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
97 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
99 ==== Support and Bugs ====
101 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
102 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
104 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
106 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
107 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
109 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
113 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
114 from there (see link above).
116 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
117 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
120 Contributors to this release
124 * Carlos Rafael Giani
128 * Mathieu Duponchelle
133 * Sreerenj Balachandran