2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.3.90
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of
6 the stable 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new features
7 on top of the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x
8 release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
11 This release candidate will hopefully shortly be followed by the stable 1.4.0
12 release if no bigger regressions or bigger issues are detected, and enough
13 testing of the release candidate happened. The new API that was added during
14 the 1.3 release series is not expected to change anymore at this point.
17 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided together with this
21 The stable 1.4 release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x, 1.2.x and
22 any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.2.x it contains some
23 new features and more intrusive changes that were considered too risky as a
28 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
29 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
30 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
31 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
33 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
34 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
37 This module contains elements for, among others:
39 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
41 codecs: vorbis, theora
42 text: textoverlay, subparse
43 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
46 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
47 visualisation: libvisual
48 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
49 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
50 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
53 Other modules containing plugins are:
57 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
59 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
62 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
63 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
66 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
72 Bugs fixed in this release
74 * 684030 : typefinding: mp4 with video and dts ES detected as DTS audio
75 * 732269 : pbutils: handle more H.264 profiles/levels
79 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
80 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
82 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
83 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
87 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
89 ==== Support and Bugs ====
91 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
92 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
94 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
96 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
97 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
99 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
103 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
104 from there (see link above).
106 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
107 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
110 Contributors to this release