+This is GStreamer gst-plugins-bad 1.18.0.
-Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.4.0
+The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
+of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
+As always, this release is again packed with new features, bug fixes and
+other improvements.
-The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of
-the stable 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new
-features on top of the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and
-ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
+The 1.18 release series adds new features on top of the 1.16 series and is
+part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
+framework.
+Full release notes can be found at:
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.18/
-Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided together
-with this release.
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided
+shortly after the release.
+This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction
+with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience.
+ - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins
-The stable 1.4 release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x,
-1.2.x and any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.2.x
-it contains some new features and more intrusive changes that were
-considered too risky as a bugfix.
+ - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional
+ media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio,
+ video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc.
+ - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred
+ license
+ - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose
+ problems for distributors
-"That an accusation?"
+ - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made
+ their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one
+ reason or another. Many of these are are production quality
+ elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit
+ tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing
+ we expect yet.
+ - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is
+ where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders
+ for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc.
-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.
+ - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using
+ VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware.
+ - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for
+ embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax
+ implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi.
-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.
+ - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP
-
-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.
-
-
-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)
-
-
-
-
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 726555 : POTFILES.in is out of date
- * 733052 : Include windsock header for Windows targets
- * 733063 : examples: gl fxtest example fails to build on win32 with gtk+ 3.0
- * 733072 : camerabin: Taking a picture in cheese leads to all sort of race
- * 733123 : mxfmux: Avoid taking unnecessary ref
- * 733248 : gl: GLintptr/GLsizeiptr/etc typechecks ignore GL_CFLAGS, potentially causing typedef redefinition errors from gst-libs/gst/gl/glprototypes/gstgl_compat.h at buildtime
+ - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing
==== Download ====
-You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
-directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
+You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
+directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
-http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/
==== Homepage ====
-The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+The project's website is https://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
+We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org
+for bug reports and feature requests:
+
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
+
+Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See
+
+ https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/
-Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
+for more details.
For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
==== Developers ====
-GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
-from there (see link above).
+GStreamer source code repositories can be found on GitLab on freedesktop.org:
+
+ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
+
+and can also be cloned from there and this is also where you can submit
+Merge Requests or file issues for bugs or feature requests.
Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
-subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
-
-
-Contributors to this release
-
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Alexey Pavlov
- * Arun Raghavan
- * Edward Hervey
- * Gwenole Beauchesne
- * Göran Jönsson
- * Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Julien Isorce
- * Mart Raudsepp
- * Mathieu Duponchelle
- * Matthew Waters
- * Matthieu Bouron
- * Nicolas Dufresne
- * Philip Withnall
- * Piotr Drąg
- * Sebastian Dröge
- * Sebastian Rasmussen
- * Stefan Ringel
- * Thiago Santos
- * Thibault Saunier
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vincent Penquerc'h
- * Wang Xin-yu (王昕宇)
-
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