-Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.11.1 "A handful sometimes, A heartful always"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0.2
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.11.x unstable series of the
-GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
+The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix release
+in the 1.x stable series of the
+core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
-The 0.11.x series is an unstable series targeted at developers.
+The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
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.
+It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
+will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
-plugins, and helper libraries.
+plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
+as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
+decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
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
containers: ogg
codecs: vorbis, theora
text: textoverlay, subparse
- sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc, giosrc
+ sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
network: tcp
typefind functions
audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
visualisation: libvisual
- video processing: videoconvert
- aggregate elements: uridecodebin, playbin, decodebin, encodebin
- libraries: app, audio, cdda, fft, interfaces, netbuffer, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
+ video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
+ high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
+ libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
-Other modules containing plug-ins are:
+Other modules containing plugins are:
gst-plugins-good
-contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
+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
+gst-libav
+contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
Features of this release
* Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
- * Rename GstXOverlay -> GstVideoOverlay
- * Reworked audio caps
- * Support for multiple frames in buffers
- * Add video colorimetry support
-There were no bugs fixed in this release
-
+ * alsa: fix probing of supported formats, and advertise non-native-endianness formats as fallback
+ * audiobasesink: properly handle GAP events (fixing some isses with e.g. certain DVD menus)
+ * audioconvert: try harder to not convert or to preserve input format precision
+ * audiodecoder: leak fixes and refcounting fixes
+ * audioresample: re-enable the SSE/SSE2 code paths for better performance
+ * riff: fix paletted RGB formats and msvideo mapping
+ * rtsp: make formatting and parsing of range floating-point values locale-independent
+ * playbin: streamsynchronizer fixes, esp. for handling corner-cases near EOS
+ * tcpserver{sink,src}: add 'current-port' property and signal actually used port
+ * videoconvert: fix handling of paletted RGB formats
+ * videodecoder: don't leak message strings when error is not fatal
+ * videodecoder: finetune missing timestamp estimating
+ * videotestsrc: add palette for paletted RGB formats
+ * vorbistag: fix writing of image tags into vorbis comments
+
+Bugs fixed in this release
+
+ * 580093 : tcpserversink,src: add 'current-port' property and signal actually used port when port=0 was set
+ * 680904 : alsasink: no supported formats detected with using USB sound card on big-endian system
+ * 683098 : videodecoder: log failure message if acquire_buffer failed
+ * 684411 : rtsp: range in SDP formatted according to locale
+ * 685273 : Pre-rolling on GAP events doesn't work properly for audio sinks
+ * 685711 : audio, video: update docs for virtual functions that require chaining up
+ * 685938 : [decodebin] Issues with group switching algorithm
+ * 686081 : adder: all unit tests crash now after collectpads changes
+ * 686298 : Cannot decode some AVI files with Microsoft Video 1
+
+==== Download ====
+
+You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
+directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
+
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
+
+==== Homepage ====
+
+The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+
+==== Support and Bugs ====
-Download
-
-You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
+We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
+http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
-GStreamer Homepage
+Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
+gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
-Support and Bugs
+There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
-We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
-http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
+==== Developers ====
-Developers
+GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
+from there (see link above).
-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.
+Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
+subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
-Applications
-
Contributors to this release
- * Age Bosma
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Alex Lancaster
- * Benjamin Otte
- * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
- * David Schleef
- * Edward Hervey
- * Erich Schubert
- * Iago Toral
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jason Kivlighn
+ * Alexandre Relange
+ * Andoni Morales Alastruey
+ * Carlos Rafael Giani
+ * David Corvoysier
* Josep Torra
- * LoneStar
* Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Monty Montgomery
- * Nicolas Dufresne
- * Olivier Crête
- * Raimo Järvi
- * René Stadler
- * Robert Swain
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sergey Scobich
- * Sergey Scobich)
- * Sjoerd Simons
- * Stefan Kost
- * Stefan Sauer
- * Sébastien Moutte
* Thiago Santos
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Tommi Myöhänen
- * Vincent Penquerc'h
* Wim Taymans
- * Youness Alaoui
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