2 Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.4.0
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of
6 the stable 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new
7 features on top of the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and
8 ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
12 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided together
17 The stable 1.4 release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x,
18 1.2.x and any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.2.x
19 it contains some new features and more intrusive changes that were
20 considered too risky as a bugfix.
24 This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
25 plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
26 as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
27 decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
29 This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
30 writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
33 This module contains elements for, among others:
35 device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
37 codecs: vorbis, theora
38 text: textoverlay, subparse
39 sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
42 audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
43 visualisation: libvisual
44 video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
45 high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
46 libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
49 Other modules containing plugins are:
53 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
55 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
58 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
59 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
62 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
68 Bugs fixed in this release
70 * 733012 : playbin: *-filter properties are settable, but not gettable
71 * 733207 : POTFILES.in is out of date
72 * 733349 : encodebin: Documentation fixes and updates for GstEncodingProfile
73 * 733386 : appsrc: Leaking callback user data
77 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
78 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
80 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
81 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
85 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
87 ==== Support and Bugs ====
89 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
90 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
92 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
94 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
95 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
97 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
101 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
102 from there (see link above).
104 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
105 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
108 Contributors to this release