2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.5.91
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate for the
6 stable 1.6 release series. The 1.6 release series is adding new features on top of
7 the 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
8 series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The final 1.6.0 release is planned
9 in the next few days unless any major bugs are found.
12 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately by
13 the GStreamer project.
17 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
18 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
19 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
20 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
22 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
23 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
26 This module contains elements for, among others:
28 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
30 codecs: vorbis, theora
31 text: textoverlay, subparse
32 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
35 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
36 visualisation: libvisual
37 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
38 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
39 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
42 Other modules containing plugins are:
46 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
48 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
51 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
52 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
55 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
61 Bugs fixed in this release
63 * 734617 : videodecoder: Call the child class finish() function on stream changes
64 * 740387 : [REGRESSION] videoscale: The port to the new scaling API broke some file playback
65 * 744806 : audiodecoder: early call to drain() causes segment event to be sent before caps
66 * 753817 : subparse: SIGSEGV with abnormal file
67 * 753850 : gl: overlay composition negotation with the sink fails
68 * 754199 : audiobasesink: patch for missing/incorrect documentation about the custom slaving method
69 * 754235 : playsinkconvertbin: regression after removing accept-caps handler
70 * 754429 : basetextoverlay: crash in basetextoverlay for padding greater than video size
71 * 754597 : appsrc: fails to push the caps at the start of the data flow when configured in seekable/random-access mode
72 * 754630 : libs: " ll " printf modifier isn't available on MinGW
73 * 754755 : playbin: Compiler warning with 64bit Windows target MinGW, cast to pointer from integer of different size
74 * 754808 : video: missing alpha flag for some formats
75 * 754973 : xvimagesink: fix error leak when context creation fails
76 * 755098 : uridecodebin: Smooth Streaming's media type does not match
77 * 755143 : audiosink, multisocketsink: Fix error leak during failures
78 * 755198 : basetextoverlay: trivial fix in debug message
79 * 755201 : playback-test: Dont free null array on exit
83 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
84 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
86 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
87 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
91 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
93 ==== Support and Bugs ====
95 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
96 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
98 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
100 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
101 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
103 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
107 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
108 from there (see link above).
110 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
111 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
114 Contributors to this release
116 * Carlos Rafael Giani