-Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.11 "A precious stone"
-
+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
- * Add ASS/SSA subtitle handling element assrender
- * Leak fixes in the QuickTime decoder wrapper
- * Better DirectShow output on Windows
- * Extend QT muxing support to include AMR and H.263
- * mms seeking support
- * Extended MXF file format handling
- * camerabin and photography API for digital camera interfacing
- * Merge elements from Farsight: liveadder, sirendec, sirenenc, valve, rtpdtmfsrc, rtpdtmdepay, dtmfsrc, rtpdtmfmux, autoconvert, mimdec, mimenc
- * typefinder based on xdgmime
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 573369 : [gstfaad] Memory corruption and segfault
- * 568704 : Metadatamux: unable to configure byte order for EXIF
- * 354908 : videoflipping interface for v4l2src
- * 369912 : missing inclusion in rpm spec file
- * 469930 : [mmssrc] seeking support PATCH
- * 481075 : Full support for ASS/SSA subtitles
- * 549645 : merge useful elements from gst-plugins-farsight into core
- * 567003 : [ladspa] improve plugin scanning
- * 567371 : [mpegtsparse] memory leak in mpegtspacketizer
- * 567828 : rtpmanager and RTCP BYE packet
- * 567965 : [flvdemux] add support for ECMA arrays in script tags
- * 568480 : gst-plugins-bad dccp plugin won't compile on Soalris
- * 568483 : Problems linking gst-plugins-bad
- * 568837 : RFE: allow building against the system modplug library
- * 569323 : [qtmux] should support audio/AMR sink
- * 570996 : bpmdetect relibably crashes with SIGSEGV on particular file
- * 571560 : gstdshowaudio decoder doesn't compile.
- * 572315 : Compiling camerabin on Windows with Visual Studio
- * 572900 : gstrtpsession should not forward recv side event to the s...
- * 573288 : [mpegtsdemux] memory leak when pusi is missed due to pack...
- * 573391 : [videoanalyse] Wrong brightness calculation
- * 575157 : xdgmime typefinder: make more conservative
- * 575565 : [mxf] mxf plugin uses symbols not in glib 2.6 (minimum gl...
- * 564114 : [PATCH] fbdev: fix depth calculation
- * 573850 : Use Glib's byte order in gstgsmdec
- * 573851 : Use glib integer types in gstfaad
- * 172043 : [mpegpsdemux] wrong video length on mpeg file
-
-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.
-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
- * Andoni Morales
- * Andrzej Polatyński
- * Andy Wingo
- * Benjamin Schmitz
- * Brian Cameron
- * Christian Schaller
- * David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Hans de Goede
- * Håvard Graff
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jan Urbanski
- * Josep Torra
- * Julien Moutte
- * LRN
- * Lasse Laukkanen
- * Laurent Glayal
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Michael Smith
- * Nokia Corporation
- * Olivier Crete
- * Olivier Crête
- * Peter Kjellerstedt
- * Philipe Kalaf
- * Philippe Khalaf
- * René Stadler
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sebastian Pölsterl
- * Simon McVittie
- * Sjoerd Simons
- * Stefan Kost
- * Thiago Sousa Santos
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Wim Taymans
- * Youness Alaoui
- * Zaheer Merali
- * Zeeshan Ali
- * philippe.kalaf@collabora.co.uk
- * sjoerd@luon.net
- * vanista
- * zeenix@gmail.com
- * zeeshan.ali@nokia.com
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