2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.6.0
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in the
6 stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
9 This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new
10 features, bug fixes and other improvements.
14 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/
15 for the full list of changes.
19 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
20 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
21 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
22 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
24 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
25 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
28 This module contains elements for, among others:
30 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
32 codecs: vorbis, theora
33 text: textoverlay, subparse
34 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
37 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
38 visualisation: libvisual
39 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
40 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
41 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
44 Other modules containing plugins are:
48 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
50 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
53 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
54 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
57 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
63 Bugs fixed in this release
65 * 752148 : Drawing from paths passed to cairo does not work with PANGOCAIRO_BACKEND=coretext
66 * 754344 : libs: build rtp after audio
67 * 754833 : dmabuf & fdmemory: fix allocator_alloc documentation
68 * 755392 : video: bugs with gst_video_frame_copy and videoconvert (with test scripts)
72 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
73 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
75 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
76 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
80 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
82 ==== Support and Bugs ====
84 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
85 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
87 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
89 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
90 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
92 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
96 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
97 from there (see link above).
99 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
100 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
103 Contributors to this release