-Release notes for GStreamer FFmpeg Plug-ins 0.11.1 "Serpentine Sibilance"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer libav Plugins 1.4.0
+
+
+The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of
+the stable 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new
+features on top of the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and
+ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
+
+
+
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided together
+with this release.
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.11.x unstable series of the
-GStreamer FFmpeg Plug-ins.
-The 0.11.x series is an unstable series targeted at developers and will
-eventually lead up to the stable 1.0 series.
-It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
-It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series.
+The stable 1.4 release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x,
+1.2.x and any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.2.x
+it contains some new features and more intrusive changes that were
+considered too risky as a bugfix.
-This module contains plug-ins using libraries from the FFmpeg project.
+This module contains plugins based on the libav project, including codecs.
-Other modules containing plug-ins are:
+
+Other modules containing plugins are:
gst-plugins-base
-contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
+contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
+gst-plugins-good
+contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
-contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
+contains a set of well-supported plugins, 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
+contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
+ rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
+ and/or unit tests
-Features of this release
+There were no bugs fixed in this release
- * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
- * Threadsafe design and API
- * Many cleanups
- * Ported to new 0.11 core API changes
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 667539 : [0.11] ffdec doesn't reorder channels if necessary
+==== Download ====
-Download
+You can find source releases of gst-libav in the download
+directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/
-You can find source releases of gst-ffmpeg in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/
-GStreamer Homepage
+==== Homepage ====
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
-Support and Bugs
+==== Support and Bugs ====
We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
-Developers
+Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
+
+For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
+gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
+
+There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
-GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned 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.
+==== Developers ====
+
+GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
+from there (see link above).
+
+Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
+subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
-Applications
-
Contributors to this release
- * Edward Hervey
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Matej Knopp
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Sauer
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vincent Penquerc'h
- * Wim Taymans
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