-Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.19 "The World Kicked Back"
-
+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
- * audioparsers: add bitrate calculation
- * camerabin: add API to query supported image capture resolution
- * camerabin: add block-after-capture property for viewfinder blocking
- * camerabin: add video-capture-width/height/framerate properties
- * camerabin: add video-source-filter and viewfinder-filter properties
- * capssetter: element was moved to gst-plugins-good
- * cogcolorspace: implement color-matrix handling and chroma-site
- * dc1394: add iso-speed property
- * dshowvideosrc: add support for YUY2 input format
- * festival: don't open an infinite number of connections to the server and close connections
- * h264parse: fix writing NALU prefix for byte-stream output format
- * h264parse: fix wrong timestamps in some cases after seeking
- * imagefreeze: plugin was moved to gst-plugins-good
- * invtelecine: add invtelecine element
- * jackaudiosrc: implement multichannel support
- * jpegformat: add xmp reading and writing support
- * ladspa, lv2: don't fail in plugin_init when having 0 elements (which would cause the plugin to get blacklisted)
- * mmssrc: Check URI for validity and work around URI parsing bugs in libmms
- * mmssrc: Use the escaped location for the RTSP redirect message
- * mpegtsdemux: add support for Blu-Ray style DTS and the two DTS HD stream types
- * mpegtsparse: parse TDT table in mpegts
- * mpegvideoparse: export profile and level in caps; estimate bitrate; update caps when sequence header changes
- * oss4: plugin was moved to gst-plugins-good
- * qtmux: add support for the VP8 video codec and XMP tags
- * segmentclip: add audio/video buffer segment clip elements
- * vcdsrc: support the DVD URI scheme so a device can be specified via the URI
- * vp8: add libvpx-based VP8 encoder/decoder (NB: encoder properties/API not fully stable yet; also, this plugin may not be compatible with GPLv2-only applications)
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 340986 : [vcdsrc] plugin not auto-plugged, and weird URI handling
- * 572551 : mpeg4videoparse fails to extract codec_data from this network camera video stream
- * 603745 : [dc1394src] add " iso-speed " property
- * 611302 : [imagefreeze] Add still frame stream generator
- * 612208 : [soundtouch] [pitch] Removing annoying g_print
- * 612331 : inputselector: linkage flags are incorrect
- * 612454 : fix compile errors in latest gst-plugins-bad
- * 612615 : [camerabin] video bin elements in wrong state when recording
- * 612687 : [mpegvideoparse] Update caps when sequence header changes
- * 612757 : Unable to build gst-plugins-bad with Sun Studio compiler
- * 613156 : cog can't be built against libpng 1.4.x
- * 613160 : [cogcolorspace] RGB- > I420 conversion adds green vertical bar at the right border
- * 613332 : [cog] generate_tables generates invalid tables for YUV- > RGB
- * 613708 : [dshowvideosrc][PATCH] Add support for YUY2 format
- * 613758 : More build warnings on OS X
- * 613795 : libmodplug's public header requires WORDS_BIGENDIAN
- * 613920 : audioparsers: Add bitrate calculation to baseparse
- * 614016 : [baseparse] NEWSEGMENT event sent with wrong start and position time
- * 614037 : flacparse: Fix buffer refcount issue
- * 614259 : mpegtsdemux: can't detect DTS audio
- * 614349 : [mpegtsparse] assertion gst_buffer_is_metadata_writable (buffer) failed
- * 614475 : [dvbsrc] Wrong property types for frequency and symbol rate
- * 614479 : [mpegtspacketizer] Use CRC to check if tables are duplicate
- * 614591 : [h264parse] Not cleaning internal state properly for reuse
- * 614958 : [camerabin] Replace actions with properties for setting parameters
- * 614991 : baseparse: Don't emit bitrate tags too early
- * 616078 : mpegvideoparse: Export profile and level in caps
- * 616541 : jackaudiosrc/sink needs to set layout on caps
- * 617145 : Compile mplex element with with --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc-v2 on Windows
- * 617146 : Lots of printf string format warnings on Windows
- * 617331 : More warnings in -bad
- * 617650 : [mmssrc] should check location
- * 618044 : [cogcolorspace] I420/YV12 - > packed 4:2:2 gives assertions
- * 618388 : [frei0r] Boolean values can't be set from gst-launch [PATCH]
- * 618409 : jackaudiosrc: improve process callback
- * 618527 : festival plugin does not close connections to server
- * 618710 : [resindvd] Needs to check for libdvdread too
- * 618867 : Remove gst-plugins-bad/ext/polyp ?
- * 619064 : h264parse: broken timestamps after seeking
- * 619169 : [vp8enc] Limit DEFAULT_MAX_LATENCY to 25 to match libvpx
- * 619172 : [vp8] exclude dec/enc based on CONFIG_VP8_DECODER/ENCODER
- * 619290 : [vp8] add mode property to switch between CBR/VBR
- * 619317 : [vp8] Encoder thread support
- * 619318 : [vp8] Decoder QoS (avoid memcpy)
- * 619344 : [vp8enc] Use GST_VIDEO_CAPS_YUV instead of handwritten YUV caps
- * 619444 : [mpegtsparse] Memory leak in mpegts_packetizer_parse_pmt
- * 619502 : [mpegvideoparse] segfault because of access to a NULL buffer gotten from mpeg_packetizer_get_block
- * 619617 : [h264parse] leaks memory
- * 619916 : [vp8enc] Doesn't skip non-frame packets correctly
- * 614317 : [oss4] should always accept PCM in native endianness even if the hardware doesn't
-
-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
- * Adam Endrodi
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Andoni Morales
- * Arun Raghavan
- * Bastien Nocera
- * Benjamin Otte
- * Brian Cameron
- * Carl-Anton Ingmarsson
- * David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Ivan Zderadicka
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Joshua M. Doe
- * Lasse Laukkanen
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Olivier Crête
- * Philip Jägenstedt
- * Raimo Järvi
- * René Stadler
- * Rob Clark
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sebastian Pölsterl
- * Shenghua Liu
- * Stefan Kost
- * Teemu Katajisto
- * Thiago Santos
- * Tiago Katcipis
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Tommi Myöhänen
- * Tristan Matthews
- * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
- * Wim Taymans
- * Zaheer Abbas Merali
- * Руслан Ижбулатов
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