2 Release notes for GStreamer FFmpeg Plug-ins 0.10.2 "At the edge of Taymans"
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
6 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
7 GStreamer FFmpeg Plug-ins.
10 The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
15 This module contains plug-ins using libraries from the FFmpeg project.
19 Other modules containing plug-ins are:
23 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
25 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
28 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
29 rigorous quality testing we expect
33 Note: There is a known small regression in this release, playing some
34 H264 videos with unusual widths on some machines.
38 Features of this release
40 * Updated FFmpeg snapshot with many more formats
41 * Vastly improved playback
42 * Ported the muxer support from GStreamer 0.8
43 * Expose more encoder settings as element properties
44 * Post-processing elements ported
45 * QoS support for slow cpus
46 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
47 * Threadsafe design and API
49 Bugs fixed in this release
51 * 331323 : [ffdec_mp3] crashing while playing mp3
52 * 332339 : FFmpeg muxers port to 0.10
53 * 324279 : add build infrastructure for tests
54 * 324366 : gst-ffmpeg doesn't support --disable-encoders
55 * 327257 : playing mpeg video hangs
56 * 338928 : [ffdemux_aac] shouldn't be autoplugged, as it can't work ...
57 * 339042 : expose Apple Quick Draw decoder
58 * 341234 : Totem SIGABRTs when trying to play 3gp
59 * 341715 : 'Element doesn't implement handling of this stream. Pleas...
60 * 341738 : WMV/WMA8 movie stutters, gets audio out of sync
61 * 343604 : [ffmpeg]: Support two passes encoding
62 * 343951 : patch for win32+vs6
63 * 347984 : Internal GStreamer error in ffdec_mpeg4
64 * 348031 : rtpdepay does not add framerate capability
65 * 351437 : [PATCH] ffmpeg postproc ported to 0.10
66 * 351791 : Crashes playing crasher.nsv
67 * 355584 : gst-ffmpeg / ffenc_flv generates unusable files
68 * 359545 : ffdemux_mpegts broken
69 * 361636 : h263 variant not specified with CODEC_ID_H263
70 * 363365 : Please update the ffmpeg snapshot
71 * 364956 : Caps incompatibilities for AMR
72 * 383009 : CVE-2006-4800 4xm buffer overflow
73 * 344583 : [PATCH] ffmpegenc to support/expose more avcodec properties
74 * 351415 : (some) ffenc produce garbled results
75 * 352579 : [avidemux] cane toad movie: sometimes no audio after seek
76 * 378796 : broken ffmux_mov
80 You can find source releases of gst-ffmpeg in the download directory:
81 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/
85 More details can be found on the project's website:
86 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
90 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
91 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
95 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
96 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
97 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
98 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
99 will create more lists as necessary.
104 Contributors to this release
118 * Thomas Vander Stichele