2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.9.2
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
5 1.9 release series, which marks the feature freeze for 1.10. The 1.9 release
6 series is adding new features on top of the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8 series
7 and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer
8 multimedia framework. The unstable 1.9 release series will lead to the stable
9 1.10 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added API can still change
13 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.
19 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
20 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
21 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
22 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
23 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
27 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
28 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
29 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
30 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
34 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
35 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
36 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
37 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
38 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
39 depending on the other factors.
40 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
41 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
42 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
45 Other modules containing plugins are:
49 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
51 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
53 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
56 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
62 Bugs fixed in this release
64 * 737173 : h264parse wrongly insert DISCONT flags when converting into AVC
65 * 741104 : dashdemux: add support for I frame based trick play
66 * 753751 : Dashdemux: returned seekable range for live streams is not usable
67 * 765314 : player: Add way to override HTTP (+RTSP, etc) user agent
68 * 767011 : rawparse: new rawaudioparse and rawvideoparse element which deprecate audioparse, unalignedaudioparse, and videoparse
69 * 767169 : adaptivedemux: avoid possible deadlock while destroying old sources
70 * 767879 : Deadlock in WebKit when deleting the media player while HLS media was loaded
71 * 768160 : qtplugins: How to implement qmlglsrc.
72 * 768553 : Configure check for OpenGL is wrong on OS X.
73 * 768595 : lv2: Does not build with lilv 0.20
74 * 768602 : EGL_DMA_Buf: Wrong attribute list type for EGL 1.5
75 * 768696 : Mac OS X build warnings: -Werror gstjpeg2000parse.c
76 * 768771 : openh264: Fail to build with openh264 1.6.0
77 * 768838 : camerabinpreview: fix bus leak
78 * 768843 : bad: fix leaks in tests
79 * 769144 : player: move 'position-update-interval' setting to the config struct
80 * 769197 : fix simple-launch-lines test with no jpeg lib
81 * 769210 : GLMemory created by avfvideosrc and vtdec on iOS (EAGL/gles3) can't be mapped
82 * 769295 : Broken compilation on RPi with latest rawaudioparse changes
83 * 769371 : glimagesink: Horizontal/vertical flip matrizes are swapped
84 * 769389 : aiffparse: Add bitrate and container format tags
85 * 769462 : glcolorconvert: _get_n_textures: code should not be reached
86 * 769553 : dashdemux: Fix sidx snap/keyframe seeks
87 * 769587 : hls, timecode: can't build debian package from git master, need to fix linking
88 * 769637 : rawparse: Unit test fixes and additions
89 * 769716 : x265enc enable aspect ratio
90 * 769797 : videoparse: format i420, invalid buffer size (regression)
91 * 769939 : gl: hang on joining thread
92 * 770030 : avfvideosrc: account for retina displays when capturing screens
93 * 770049 : vtdec: missing systemstream=false in mpeg decoder caps
94 * 770075 : adaptivedemux: fix stream exposure condition
95 * 770102 : daala: typo related compilation error
96 * 770282 : decklinkvideosink: " Failed to schedule frame " and Decklink Duo 2
97 * 770326 : gst-plugins-bad tarball lacks opensles.h
98 * 770408 : dashdemux: Add properties to select maximum allowed width/height and framerate
99 * 770523 : Build failure: fatal error: gst/gl/gstglconfig.h: No such file or directory
100 * 770587 : qtkitvideosrc: 'QTKit/QTKit.h' file not found (macOS Sierra)
101 * 769116 : Build failure with -O3 in Ubuntu 16.04
102 * 769580 : Fail to decode media on OSX because it's not supported by vtdec_hw but vtdec can play it
106 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
107 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
109 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
110 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
114 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
116 ==== Support and Bugs ====
118 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
119 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
121 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
123 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
124 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
126 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
130 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
131 from there (see link above).
133 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
134 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
137 Contributors to this release
143 * Carlos Rafael Giani
147 * Guillaume Desmottes
152 * Luis de Bethencourt
160 * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
164 * Sreerenj Balachandran
170 * Xabier Rodriguez Calvar