-Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.11.2 "Crossthreaded"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.2.0
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.11.x unstable 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 0.11.x series is an unstable series targeted at developers and will
-eventually lead up to the stable 1.0 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.
+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
- * Many cleanups
- * Ported to new 0.11 core API changes
- * schro: Ported to 0.11
- * qtkitvideosrc: Ported to 0.11
- * vtdec: Ported to 0.11
- * celt: Ported to 0.11
- * removesilence: Ported to 0.11
- * bz2: Ported to 0.11
- * segmentclip: Ported to 0.11
- * smooth: Ported to 0.11
- * scaletempo: Ported to 0.11
- * rawparse: Ported to 0.11
- * shm: Ported to 0.11
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 658438 : [0.11][h263parse] Make h263 profiles/levels string fields in the caps
- * 662618 : [gst-plugins-bad]compiler warnings due to printf format mismatch
- * 665355 : [basevideodecoder] deletes frame but keeps it in list
- * 670367 : Build failures for gst-plugins-bad
-
-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
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
- * David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Matej Knopp
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sreerenj Balachandran
- * Thibault Saunier
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Wim Taymans
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