Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.15 "No need to argue" The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release in the 0.10.x stable series of the GStreamer Base Plug-ins. The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series. It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series. This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other plugins, and helper libraries. This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for their development. This module contains elements for, among others: device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia containers: ogg codecs: vorbis, theora text: textoverlay, subparse sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc network: tcp typefind audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume visualisation: libvisual video processing: ffmpegcolorspace aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin Other modules containing plug-ins are: gst-plugins-good contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license gst-plugins-ugly contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for distributors gst-plugins-bad contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect Features of this release * RTP/RTSP/RTCP/SDP support improved * New FFT support library libgstfft, based on Kiss FFT * New formats supported in volume and audiotestsrc * Fixes in audiorate and videorate * Audio capture fixes * Playbin and decodebin fixes * New tagdemux base class for ID3/APE style tag readers * Fix a nasty crash in the X sinks on shutdown * New tags supported * Add support for multichannel WAV files. * Preserve channel layout information when up/down-mixing. * Many bug-fixes and improvements * Bugs fixed in this release * 475395 : decodebin2 leaks request-pads * 475451 : [decodebin2] leaks ghostpad * 378770 : [xvimagesink] race condition in event thread? * 407282 : [decodebin2] autoplug-sort signal has GList ** parameter * 430677 : [audioconvert] does not preserve channel positions when f... * 442654 : [volume] controller bypassed by default * 445529 : [volume] support for 24/32-bit audio/x-raw-int * 446766 : return code for gst_base_rtp_payload_audio_handle_event() * 451970 : Subparse requires HTML parser * 453650 : [audiobasesrc] two alsasrcs do not work in one pipeline * 459334 : [textoverlay] expose pango line alignment property * 459585 : [basertpdepayload] api without namespace * 460422 : [audiotestsrc] Add support for float and double output * 462805 : [alsa] compilation fails with gcc 4.2 * 462979 : Add 'silent' property to GstTimeOverlay * 463215 : [audioconvert] compile errors * 464320 : [PATCH] gst-plugins-base-0.14 does not build for win32 * 464666 : [playbin] QT trailer hangs in preroll with decodebin2 * 464690 : Add connection-speed property to uridecodebin element * 465015 : [playbin] Not removed probes causes deadlocks in streamin... * 465028 : some warnings with mingw * 467667 : GST_FRAMES_TO_CLOCK_TIME() and GST_CLOCK_TIME_TO_FRAMES()... * 468129 : [basertpaudiopayload] event handler returns the wrong value * 468619 : New library gstfft: FFT library for integer and float typ... * 470456 : [API] add gst_missing_*_installer_detail_new() * 470766 : [ssaparse] line breaks in SSA subtitle parser * 471067 : Make the SDP code useable for generating SDP descriptions * 471194 : [rtpbuffer] RTP headers are wrong for win32 * 473097 : [baseaudiosink] gstreamer-properties hangs when testing s... * 474384 : gstrtsp-enumtypes.c and .h needed for win32 * 474880 : [xvimagesink] [ximagesink] leaking buffer caps reference * 475731 : rtspconnection is able to read incomplete messages * 483620 : All Rtp buffers are discarded -- gst_rtp_buffer_get_payl... * 484989 : memleak, not unrefed caps for gstbasertppayload.c * 489010 : Please change default channel order for WAVE_EXT-less .wa... * 491722 : [playbin] regression: crash with external subtitles * 492098 : [GstFFT] Broken scaling * 492114 : Build issues on Windows/MSVC * 492306 : compilation errors with MinGW * 492813 : Missing symbols in libgstrtp.def * 493986 : Build issues on Windows (missing symbols) * 494346 : pre-release vs6 patch * 496548 : Including malloc.h breaks macos build * 496724 : DSW file references non-existent DSP files * 464079 : audiotestsrc doesn't respond to conversion queries properly * 442065 : floatcast.h includes config.h and might break other apps * 466717 : gst_event_new_new_segment_full:assertion `start < = stop' ... * 485753 : Decodebin2 deadlocks when nulling pipeline during typefind * 464028 : Move connection-speed from playbin to playbasebin API changed in this release - API additions: * GstTagDemux base class for simple tag demuxers * GstBaseAudioSrc::provide-clock property * gst_rtcp_ntp_to_unix() * gst_rtcp_unix_to_ntp() * gst_rtp_buffer_get_header_len() * gst_rtp_buffer_get_extension_data() * gst_rtp_buffer_compare_seqnum() * gst_rtp_buffer_ext_timestamp() * gst_rtcp_packet_sdes_copy_entry() * gst_install_plugins_supported() * gst_missing_*_installer_detail_new() convenience API * gst_rtsp_connection_poll() * GstTextOverlay::line-alignment property Download You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/ GStreamer Homepage More details can be found on the project's website: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ Support and Bugs We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer Developers CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org. All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary. Applications Contributors to this release * Stefan Kost * Alexander Shopov * Damien Lespiau * Dan Williams * Daniel Díaz * David Schleef * Davyd Madeley * Funda Wang * Haakon Sporsheim * Ilkka Tuohela * Jakub Bogusz * Jan Schmidt * Jason Kivlighn * Jens Granseuer * Johan Dahlin * Jorge González González * Josep Torra Valles * Julien MOUTTE * Laurent Glayal * Michael Smith * Mogens Jaeger * Ole André Vadla Ravnås * Olivier Crete * Peter Kjellerstedt * Renato Filho * René Stadler * Sebastian Dröge * Sebastien Moutte * Stefan Kost * Thijs Vermeir * Thomas Vander Stichele * Tim-Philipp Müller * Tommi Myöhänen * Vincent Torri * Wim Taymans * Yang Hong