+This is GStreamer core 1.16.1.
- GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1]
-
- The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
- GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused
- on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of
- GStreamer are API stable at this point. In preparation of a stable
- release, we have also done a thorough license audit to make sure that
- the licenses of all plug-ins are properly documented, and that as many
- of them as possible are available under the LGPL license that
- GStreamer uses.
-
- We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
- development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
- check out our [1]applications status page.
-
-Updates and Enhancements
-
- General
-
- * Further work on the Graphical Pipeline Editor, getting to be very
- stable and well working.
- * KDE/Qt bindings created for easier creation of KDE applications on
- top of GStreamer
- * General C++ bindings for use with gtkmm and other C++ projects
- added to gst-bind module (in CVS)
- * Effectv and virtualdub based plug-ins relicensed under LGPL
- (previously GPL)
- * Some manual examples updated and extracted to code (in
- examples/manual)
-
- Core
-
- * Many memleaks plugged
- * Lots of code cleaning
- * Many documentation improvements
- * Small change to [2]Plugin API
- * Removed use of -Wall and -Werror from release tarball for non-gcc
- compilers, more permanent solution upcoming.
- * Old schedulers renamed: we now use basicomega as the default
- scheduler, with the others being fastomega, basicwingo and
- fastwingo.
-
- Plug-ins
-
- * BSD and Darwin cd playing
- * New Mixermatrix plugin added
- * New Flash plugin added
- * RTP plugin moved back to librtp and plugin now includes library
- code (still experimental, check configure --help on how to enable)
- * New v4l2 plugins
- * Updated v4l plugins
- * Improvements to dvdnav plugin
- * iRadio support added to gnomevfs plugin
- * Median video plugin updated and now working
- * Fixed many major bugs in the gnome-vfs library
- * Got rid of misleading warnings from plugins
- * Avi muxer much improved
- * Fix bug in mad plugin that caused loss of frames
- * mp3 typefind fixed to properly handle id3v2 tags
-
-Known Issues
-
- GStreamer currently ships with schedulers based on two cothread
- packages. The 'omega' cothread package is the one we have been
- shipping for a long time now and is still the default in this release.
- There are however some limitations and thread-related bugs in the
- omega scheduler. These limitations are not present in the 'wingo'
- schedulers, but unfortunately it does not work with i686 glibc at this
- time due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to
- other architectures, including i386. A new (third) scheduler (that
- doesn't use cothreads) is being developed.
-
- As for the bugs in the 'omega' schedulers, we did not feel they
- warranted not releasing 0.4.1 as they are rather obscure. For instance
- if you are using Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs
- nonstop to trigger it. You can choose a different scheduler by passing
- --scheduler=(name) to any GStreamer application.
-
- Wim Taymans has started work on a new scheduler. The first part is
- already in CVS, but it will probably still be some months before it is
- ready.
-
-GStreamer Homepage
-
- More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
- [3]http://gstreamer.net/.
-
-Support and Bugs
-
- We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
- "product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following
- before writing a bug report :
-gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
-
- and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have
- some information useful in the debugging process.
-
-Developers
-
- GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. 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.
-
- We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix
- and True64 that would be willing to try building and testing
- GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.
-
-Contributors to this release
-
- Patches to the core of Gstreamer
-
- * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
- * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
- * Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com>
- * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
- * Cameron Hutchison <camh(AT)xdna.net>
- * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
- * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
-
- Plugins and Sample Applications
-
- * Richard Boulton <richard(AT)tartarus.org>
- * David Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
- * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
- * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com>
- * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
- * Charles Schmidt <cbschmid(AT)users.sourceforge.net>
- * Goraxe <goraxe@ntlworld.com>
- * Colin Walters <walters(AT)gnu.org>
- * Kristian Rietveld <kris(AT)gtk.org>
-
- Misc
-
- * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
- * Tim Jansen <tim.jansen(AT)kde.org>
- * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
- * Christian Meyer <chrisime(AT)gnome.org>
-
- [1] It is a little-known fact that the Beatles decided their track
- listing for their albums based on a process called the 'GEP' process.
- After some initial problems, this worked very well. The only known
- failure of this process happened when George Harrison commited the
- out-of-place 'Within You Without You' to Sergeant Pepper without
- review by the other band members. This near split-up led to one of
- their finest songs on the world-reknowned White Album.
-
-References
-
- 1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
- 2. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9557296/
- 3. http://gstreamer.net/
- 4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
- 5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
+The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug-fix release in the
+stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
+
+The 1.16 release series adds new features on top of the 1.14 series and is
+part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
+framework.
+
+Full release notes will one day be found at:
+
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/
+
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
+shortly after the release.
+
+This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction
+with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience.
+
+ - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins
+
+ - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional
+ media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio,
+ video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc.
+
+ - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred
+ license
+
+ - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose
+ problems for distributors
+
+ - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made
+ their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one
+ reason or another. Many of these are are production quality
+ elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit
+ tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing
+ we expect yet.
+
+ - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is
+ where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders
+ for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc.
+
+ - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using
+ VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware.
+
+ - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for
+ embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax
+ implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi.
+
+ - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP
+
+ - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
+
+==== Download ====
+
+You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
+directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
+
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/
+
+==== Homepage ====
+
+The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+
+==== Support and Bugs ====
+
+We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org
+for bug reports and feature requests:
+
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
+
+Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See
+
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/
+
+for more details.
+
+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.
+
+==== Developers ====
+
+GStreamer source code repositories can be found on GitLab on freedesktop.org:
+
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
+
+and can also be cloned from there and this is also where you can submit
+Merge Requests or file issues for bugs or feature requests.
+
+Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
+subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list:
+
+ https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel
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