-Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.6 "A Big Deep Breath"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.2.0
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.10.x stable series of the
-GStreamer Bad Plug-ins.
+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 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.
+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.
No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
-cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B.
+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
You dig.
-This module contains a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the
+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 plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
+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.
-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 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-libav
+contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
-Features of this release
+There were no bugs fixed in this release
- * DVB support added
- * dc1394 support
- * RTP-manager improvements
- * Support for native QT codecs on OS/X and DirectShow codecs on Windows, courtesy of Songbird and Fluendo
- * New elements: flvdemux, flvparse, mpegtsparse, dvbsrc, dvdspu
- * More new elements: mpeg4videoparse, metadatademux/mux, souphttpsrc, speexresample, qtwrapper
- * Even more new elements: rawaudioparse, fbdevsink
- * Renamed elements/plugins: switch (now selector), pitch (now soundtouch)
- * Elements graduated to good: multifilesrc/sink, spectrum, equalizer, bpwsinc, lpwsinc
- * Elements graduated to ugly: xingmux (now part of mpegaudioparse)
- * OpenGL support moved to new module: gst-plugins-gl
- * appsrc/appsink improvements
- * Fixes in neonhttpsrc
- * Fixes in amrwbparse
- * Deinterlacer improvements
- * Fixes in dtsdec
- * Fixes in the Real codec wrappers
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 321240 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] dfbvideosink should be moved from -bad to -...
- * 508029 : [speexresample] pops/glitches in some cases
- * 508294 : [realaudiodec] crash in set_caps dereferencing NULL funcs...
- * 387251 : New Plugin! : dc1394 Adds Support for firewire (1394) IID...
- * 393461 : [Real] Location of .so varies on each distribution
- * 395424 : neonhttpsrc lacks support for proxy servers
- * 397759 : Xingmux may not write a proper Xing/VBR header
- * 403992 : [new plugin] timidity based midi decoder
- * 409974 : Code for improved GStreamer resampler (based on speex res...
- * 426657 : Add support for SDP multicast description files
- * 433373 : [win32] autogenerated win32/common/config.h needed
- * 444499 : build of fresh CVS is failing in ext/sdl
- * 450175 : gcc-2.9x build fixes
- * 450605 : Missing files in po/POTFILES.in
- * 452009 : ./configure breaks when cross-compiling FAAD2
- * 452258 : [mpeg2enc] make work with mjpegtools 1.9
- * 453636 : dvbsrc needs more flexible adapter selection
- * 454078 : [ivorbis] header files missing in release tarball
- * 454313 : missing xml files to build docs/plugins
- * 456901 : PATCH: add several missing supported mime-types to the mo...
- * 456912 : PATCH: make wildmidi plugin check for /etc/timidity.cfg
- * 461068 : Seeking not properly implemented by the pitch plugin
- * 461373 : HP-UX 11.11 build with native compiler
- * 461377 : [festival] port to GStreamer-0.10
- * 461601 : Some files missing from POTFILES.in
- * 462737 : compilation breaks with g++-4.2 and gcc-4.2
- * 464678 : Add connection-speed property to mmssrc element
- * 468039 : [mythtvsrc] missing examples for live tv in gst-inspect
- * 471554 : real media videos do not work
- * 473562 : [rtpmanager] cvs build problem due to compiler warning
- * 474969 : [neonhttpsrc] fails to play radio streams with neon > =0.26
- * 476128 : Printf format fixes
- * 476148 : Add mpeg4 video parser
- * 476159 : memleak patch to rtpmanager
- * 476370 : [faad] shouldn't set channel-positions for mono and stereo
- * 477306 : amrwbenc has not property to select band mode
- * 478566 : Add notification of active SSRCs to the RTP manager
- * 481200 : gstneonhttpsrc discards GET parameters from URL
- * 481276 : [mpegtsparse] " not linked (-1) " error
- * 481279 : [mpegtsparse] partial corruption of the output stream
- * 483400 : mpegtsparse: PAT with version 0 incorrectly skipped by pa...
- * 484990 : memleak - missing g_free() rtpmanager/gstrtpbin.c
- * 485462 : alsaspdifsink uses wrong sample rate
- * 487496 : [dvdspu] fails to link on Mac OS
- * 487892 : [mpegtsparse] getting pat-info property before PAT is ava...
- * 487901 : [mpegtsparse] stale PAT info when switching from PLAYING ...
- * 490060 : [faac] a few minor issues: bitrate, enum nick for low com...
- * 490682 : [interleave] can't create more than one request sink pad
- * 492406 : Crasher in libgstdshow on Windows/MSVC
- * 492798 : [rtpmanager] build issues on Windows/MSVC
- * 496221 : Streaming FLV's over HTTP doesn't work, for totem and the...
- * 498430 : incomplete CVS commit
- * 498667 : gstreamer segfaults in faac
- * 498755 : FLV files incorrectly report framerate of 1000fps
- * 499008 : mpeg2enc ignores the incoming stream aspect property
- * 500099 : Fixes and improvements to souphttpsrc
- * 500142 : switch element in switch plugin should be renamed
- * 501579 : rtpmanager should emit a signal when it can associate a s...
- * 502335 : [souphttpsrc] some enhancements
- * 502879 : videoparse segmentation fault
- * 503308 : Changing tempo using pitch plugin doesn't update length info
- * 507020 : [rtpjitterbuffer] unreffing peeked buffer and not popping...
- * 507584 : gio: gstgiobasesrc.c does not compile with CVS version of...
- * 507940 : rtpsession:rtp_send_src shouldnt not have fixed caps
- * 508515 : [rtpbin] allow request_new_pad with name NULL
- * 508587 : Improvement to rtpsession
- * 508979 : Enhancement for xingmux
- * 510708 : [souphttpsrc] support for libsoup-2.4
- * 511001 : enhanced deinterlace plugin
- * 511146 : rtpjitterbuffer should not return an error on no-caps
- * 511530 : DTS library API change?
- * 511683 : gstrtpbin fails to associate streams together for lipsync
- * 511686 : make gstrtpjitterbuffer respect different clock rates for...
- * 511920 : rtpsource queue full tries to treat GstBuffer as GstObject
- * 512654 : [h264parse] does not build in cvs head (unused variable i...
- * 512774 : [rtpjitterbuffer] does not accept clock rate from caps
- * 512826 : switch / selector event leak
- * 514093 : bug in configure.ac prevents glimagesink plugin from bein...
- * 515564 : souphttpsrc unit test fails to build
- * 515567 : [states] States unit test should exclude the dvb plugin
- * 515588 : Warning building tremor plugin
- * 515720 : [xvid] Memory leak caused by not unsetting GValue
- * 515721 : [rfb] rfbsrc leaking the rfb decoder
- * 515722 : [fbdev] Leaking the device property string
- * 515815 : [mpegvideoparse] fix a few new memory leaks
- * 515860 : plugins should not install headers - fix metadata
- * 515919 : Fix a bunch of finalize leaks
- * 515964 : [docs] Still contains docs for the GIO plugin although it...
- * 515970 : [dshowdecwrapper] Doesn't chain up dispose function properly
- * 516061 : [h264parse] fix a few new memory leaks
- * 516094 : Remove glimagesink from -bad
- * 516114 : dvbbasebin leaks the location string when the uri handler...
- * 516160 : gstrtpbin did not ignore streams with no SR when doing as...
- * 516436 : [dvdsub] segfault on display of 1st subpicture in 2nd cha...
- * 516448 : criticals due to missing debug category init in mpegtsparse
- * 516499 : critical caused by assuming optional property " descriptor...
- * 517391 : [tta] Doesn't link with libm
- * 517571 : small memory leak in gstrtpbin
- * 517684 : [mythtvsrc] Small bug fixes
- * 478159 : Could not decode realvideo buffer
- * 497020 : Add fully async HTTP source based on libsoup.
- * 501562 : [switch] bogus locking order
-
-Download
-
-You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
-
-GStreamer Homepage
-
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
-
-Support and Bugs
+
+==== Download ====
+
+You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
+directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
+
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
+
+==== Homepage ====
+
+The project's website is 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
+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.
-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.
+==== 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
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Alexander Shopov
- * Andrzej Mendel
- * Andy Wingo
- * Armando Taffarel Neto
- * Bastien Nocera
- * Christian Schaller
- * Daniel Charles
- * David Schleef
- * Edgard Lima
* Edward Hervey
- * Gabriel Bouvigne
- * Gautier Portet
- * Hans de Goede
- * Ian Munro
- * Ilkka Tuohela
- * Jakub Bogusz
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jens Granseuer
- * Johan Dahlin
- * Jonathan Matthew
- * Jorge González González
- * Josep Torra Valles
- * Julien Moutte
- * Laurent Glayal
- * Michael Kötter
- * Michael Smith
- * Ole André Vadla Ravnås
- * Olivier Crete
- * Peter Kjellerstedt
- * Raphael Higino
- * Renato Filho
- * René Stadler
- * Richard Hult
- * Sean D'Epagnier
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sebastien Moutte
- * Stefan Kost
- * Thijs Vermeir
- * Thomas Green
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Wai-Ming Ho
- * Wenzheng Hu
- * Wim Taymans
- * Wouter Cloetens
- * Wouter Paesen
- * Youness Alaoui
- * Zaheer Abbas Merali
- * mutex at runbox dot com
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