2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.14 "Your New Best Friends"
6 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
7 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
8 GStreamer Bad Plug-ins.
11 The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
12 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
13 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
20 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
21 cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B.
22 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
23 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
24 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
28 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
29 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
30 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
31 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
35 This module contains a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the
36 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
37 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
38 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
39 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
40 depending on the other factors.
41 If the plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
42 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
43 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
46 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
50 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
52 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
54 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
61 Features of this release
63 * Moved rtpmanager to -good
64 * Moved dirac elements from schroedinger to gst-plugins-bad (new schroedinger release without the gstreamer elements will follow shortly)
65 * amrwb: Remove AMR-WB parser and decoder and rename encoder plugin from amrwb to amrwbenc (the removed elements will re-appear in the next -ugly release; no migration strategy provided in this case because of the 'special' status of the amrwb plugin)
66 * asfmux, rtpasfpay: add ASF muxer and windows media payloader
67 * basevideo: add experimental video base class library/API
68 * camerabin: lots of fixes and improvements
69 * capssetter: new element for debugging purposes
70 * directdraw: Implement GstNavigation interface
71 * directshow: refactor and improve dshowsrcwrapper, dshowideosrc, dshowaudiosrc
72 * frei0r: wrapper for frei0r video filter plugins
73 * gme: add libgme plugin which supersedes the existing OpenSPC spc plugin
74 * Implement SEEKING query in more demuxers and decoders (notably mpeg-ps/mpeg-ts, mxf, musepack, rawparse)
75 * kate: add kate subtitle encoder, decoder and overlay
76 * mimic: lots of fixes for mimenc and mimdec; add "paused mode"
77 * mpegpsdemux: added caps for AAC and fixed playback of a clip with LPCM
78 * mpegtsdemux: added VC1, EAC3 and LPCM related to blueray/hdmv
79 * qtmux: handle pixel-aspect-ratio; misc. other fixes and improvements
80 * shapewipe: support ARGB/RGBA for video input/output; fix for still images
81 * vdpau: add experimental vdpau plugin
83 Bugs fixed in this release
85 * 587819 : [mpegtsparse] crash because of double free
86 * 344129 : [directsoundsrc] Plugin for Directsound source
87 * 377784 : xvidenc should output video/mpeg
88 * 540128 : Totem freeze with short HDV file
89 * 541962 : [directdrawsink] crash when exposing in GST_STATE_READY
90 * 561241 : metadatademux pad activation deadlock
91 * 561752 : GstRtpBin implement Release pad functions
92 * 575672 : [mpegtsdemux] crashes when souphttpsrc is used as a stream source
93 * 575818 : [ivorbisdec] extract vorbis tags
94 * 576800 : gstreamer SPC plugin requires non-portable x86 code
95 * 583470 : mpegtsparse: Old pes pids not removed when receiving PAT table
96 * 584252 : enhancements to OSSv4 plugin
97 * 584897 : Remove AMR plugin as it has been replaced by updated OpenCore plugin
98 * 585839 : Support for sending RTP packets as GstBufferList in the gstrtpbin
99 * 586019 : [mxfdemux] stray semicolons after if statement
100 * 586097 : GStreamer DVB tuning too quick for some devices
101 * 586956 : Include < sys/time.h > only if it is present in the system
102 * 587023 : [freeze] disable plugin static lib
103 * 587595 : [dshowsrcwrapper] start refactoring
104 * 588638 : [katedec] add x-dvd-subpicture output
105 * 588944 : mpegpsdemux doesn't support seeking with GST_FORMAT_TIME anymore
106 * 590030 : rtpsource: Incoming buffers do not always have caps
107 * 590208 : GstNavigation interface support for directdrawsink
108 * 590360 : [qtmux] requires endianness even if the samples are 8bit
109 * 590446 : [mpegdemux] MPEG TS with A52 not seekable
110 * 590797 : Memory leak in rtpsource.c
111 * 591440 : rtpdtmfsrc event cleanup
112 * 591538 : generic states test fails (vdpau, mimenc)
113 * 591610 : asfmux: messing up with sinkpads
114 * 591927 : REQUIREMENTS is out of date
115 * 592259 : mimenc: fourcc written incorrectly
116 * 593024 : regression in schroenc streamheader initialization
117 * 593063 : resindvd and rawparse do not use correct base LDFLAGS
118 * 593068 : Disarray in directsoundsrc/directdrawsink
119 * 586354 : [h264parse] blocked in infinite loop while parsing a corrupted frame
123 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
124 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
128 More details can be found on the project's website:
129 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
133 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
134 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
138 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there.
139 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
140 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
141 will create more lists as necessary.
146 Contributors to this release
153 * Carl-Anton Ingmarsson
183 * Zaheer Abbas Merali
185 * Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)