2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.4 "Alias"
5 The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
6 in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.
9 The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
10 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
11 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.
14 This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding,
15 conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media
16 handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module
17 to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long
18 as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.
21 The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If you
22 want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this
23 module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based colorspace
24 element has been added to the Plugins however.
27 Features of this release
29 * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
30 * Internationalization
31 * New translation in this release: Albanian
32 * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nl sq sr sv uk
33 * licensing corrections
34 * fixes for compiling with G_DISABLE_ASSERT
35 * pixel aspect ratio conversion fixes
36 * tcpserversink fixes and additions
37 * multifdsink can use poll now as well
42 * theoradec, theoraenc fixes
45 * ximagesink, xvimagesink fixes
48 Bugs fixed in this release
50 * 135407 : [xviddec] shows green frames when decoding packed bitstre...
51 * 140432 : Osssink and alsasink broken on nforce2 (intel8x0) soundcard
52 * 140897 : Incorrect segment duration in files created with matroska...
53 * 140898 : No writing application specified in matroska files create...
54 * 141554 : vorbis in matroska files makes the vorbisdec plugin segfault
55 * 144091 : [Solaris] audio mixer element
56 * 144616 : Infinite loop in wavparse.
57 * 148711 : typefind function for TTA audio files
58 * 148950 : matroskademux doesn't set buffer duration
59 * 148951 : matroskademux misses the tta codec in its codec list
60 * 151232 : [lame] doesn't build with lame-3.90
61 * 151236 : [v4l] compile failure
62 * 151410 : Memory leaks in multifdsink
63 * 151462 : theora plugin Makefile broken
67 You can find source releases of gst-plugins in the download directory:
68 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/
72 More details can be found on the project's website:
73 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
77 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
78 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
82 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
83 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
84 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
85 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
86 will create more lists as necessary.
91 The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found
92 under /system/gstreamer/0.8. Applications should use the gconf library,
93 as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.
96 Contributors to this release
99 * Balamurali Viswanathan
109 * Thomas Vander Stichele
111 * Zaheer Abbas Merali