2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.4.0
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of
6 the stable 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new
7 features on top of the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and
8 ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
12 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided together
17 The stable 1.4 release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x,
18 1.2.x and any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.2.x
19 it contains some new features and more intrusive changes that were
20 considered too risky as a bugfix.
27 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
28 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
29 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
30 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
31 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
35 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
36 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
37 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
38 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
42 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
43 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
44 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
45 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
46 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
47 depending on the other factors.
48 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
49 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
50 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
53 Other modules containing plugins are:
57 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
59 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
61 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
64 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
70 Bugs fixed in this release
72 * 726555 : POTFILES.in is out of date
73 * 733052 : Include windsock header for Windows targets
74 * 733063 : examples: gl fxtest example fails to build on win32 with gtk+ 3.0
75 * 733072 : camerabin: Taking a picture in cheese leads to all sort of race
76 * 733123 : mxfmux: Avoid taking unnecessary ref
77 * 733248 : gl: GLintptr/GLsizeiptr/etc typechecks ignore GL_CFLAGS, potentially causing typedef redefinition errors from gst-libs/gst/gl/glprototypes/gstgl_compat.h at buildtime
81 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
82 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
84 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
85 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
89 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
91 ==== Support and Bugs ====
93 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
94 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
96 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
98 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
99 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
101 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
105 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
106 from there (see link above).
108 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
109 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
112 Contributors to this release
120 * Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
124 * Mathieu Duponchelle
131 * Sebastian Rasmussen