-GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.0 "Pharmaceutical Itch"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.2.0
+
+
+The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new feature release
+in the 1.x stable series of the
+core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
+
+
+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 and
+will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
+
+
+
+"That an accusation?"
+
+
+No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
+cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
+They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
+at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
+to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
+showdown.
+
-The GStreamer team is happy to announce the first release
-in the 0.8.x stable series
-of the GStreamer Plugins.
+Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
+patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
+steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
+kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
+You dig.
-The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
-It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
-It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.
+This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
+rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
+- be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
+maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
+upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
+depending on the other factors.
+If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
+problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
+New contributors can start here for things to work on.
-This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding,
-conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media
-handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module
-to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long
-as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.
+Other modules containing plugins are:
+
+
+gst-plugins-base
+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 plugins, but might pose problems for
+ distributors
+gst-libav
+contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
-The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If you
-want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this
-module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based colorspace
-element has been added to the Plugins however.
-Features of this release
-
- * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
- * Internationalization
- * Dutch, French and Serbian translations
- * Updated to the new core 0.8 subsystems
- * Reworked play and media-info libraries
- * Audio sinks synchronize on timestamps
- * New demuxer: ogg
- * New decoder: theora
- * New elements: rfb, switch, trm, ffmpegcolorspace
- * New sinks: ximagesink, xvimagesink
- * Fixes to all other elements, including audioconvert, interleave, alsa, videotestsrc
- * Portability fixes
- * ChangeLog use
- * Coding style consistency
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
+
+There were no bugs fixed in this release
- * 126999 : [API]: "gstreamer-libs-0.7.pc" should be renamed
- * 129299 : complied errors in alsa-lib-1.0.0-0.rc2
- * 131270 : pkg-config-ification patch (alsa, esd, shout2, ogg, speex, .
- * 135921 : speexenc support won't compile with 1.1.x
- * 136590 : mod plugins doesn't work atm
- * 137044 : GConf schemas unreadable
-Download
+==== Download ====
+
+You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
+directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
-You find source releases of gst-plugins in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
-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.
-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.
+For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
+gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
-
-Applications
+There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
-The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found
-under /system/gstreamer/0.8. Applications should use the gconf library,
-as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.
+==== 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.
+
+
Contributors to this release
- * Amaury Jacquot
- * Andy Wingo
- * Arwed v. Merkatz
- * Benjamin Otte
- * Brian Cameron
- * Christian Schaller
- * Christophe Fergeau
- * Colin Walters
- * Danilo Segan
- * David I. Lehn
- * David Schleef
- * Iain Holmes
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jérémy Simon
- * Johan Dahlin
- * Jon Trowbridge
- * Julien Moutte
- * Julio M. Merino Vidal
- * Leif Morgan Johnson
- * Ramon Garcia
- * Ronald Bultje
- * Steve Baker
- * Thomas Canty
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
- * Stefan Kost
+ * Edward Hervey
+ * Sebastian Dröge
+ * Tim-Philipp Müller
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