-Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.11.2 "Drool Pool"
-
-
+Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.8.0
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.11.x unstable series of the
-GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
+The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the new stable
+1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of
+the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x
+release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
-The 0.11.x series is an unstable series targeted at developers and will
-eventually lead up to the stable 1.0 series.
-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.
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly after
+the source release by the GStreamer project during the stable 1.8 release
+series.
This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
-plugins, and helper libraries.
+plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
+as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
+decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
This module contains elements for, among others:
- device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, cdparanoia
+ device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
containers: ogg
codecs: vorbis, theora
text: textoverlay, subparse
typefind functions
audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
visualisation: libvisual
- video processing: videoconvert
- aggregate elements: uridecodebin, playbin, decodebin, encodebin
- libraries: app, audio, cdda, fft, interfaces, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
+ video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
+ high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
+ libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
-Other modules containing plug-ins are:
+Other modules containing plugins are:
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-plugins-bad
-contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
- rigorous quality testing we expect
+contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
+ rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
+ and/or unit tests
+gst-libav
+contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
-Features of this release
-
- * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
- * Many API cleanups
- * Ported to new 0.11 core API changes
- * Use new GstSample for snapshots
- * Improved video filter base class
- * New multichannel caps with mask
- * Port network elements to GIO
- * Many fixes and improvements
-
Bugs fixed in this release
- * 651222 : [0.11] [playbin(2)/uridecodebin] " connection-speed " should be a guint64 instead of a guint
- * 656264 : tag: no-return-in-nonvoid-function compiler warning gstxmptag.c:178
- * 659692 : [0.11] circular dependency between libgstpbutils and libgstaudio
- * 661911 : Audiotestsrc segfaults when trying to changing 'wave' parameter
- * 662607 : printf format mismatch causes compiler warnings
- * 663689 : Missing DiscoverInfo API in 0.11
- * 669328 : [0.11] Remove deprecated theoraenc properties
+ * 763316 : install-plugins: update documentation
+
+==== Download ====
-Download
+You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
+directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
-You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
-GStreamer Homepage
+==== Homepage ====
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
-Support and Bugs
+==== 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.
-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.
+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.
+
+==== 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
- * Alexey Fisher
- * Andoni Morales Alastruey
- * Andy Wingo
- * Anssi Hannula
- * Benjamin Otte
- * Brian Cameron
- * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
- * Colin Walters
- * Damien Lespiau
- * David Schleef
- * Edward Hervey
- * Felipe Contreras
- * George Kiagiadakis
- * Havard Graff
- * Idar Tollefsen
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jason DeRose
- * Jonathan Matthew
- * Josep Torra
- * Kipp Cannon
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Mart Raudsepp
- * Matej Knopp
- * Mersad Jelacic
- * Michael Smith
- * Nicolas Dufresne
- * Oleksij Rempel (Alexey Fisher)
- * Olivier Aubert
- * Olivier Crête
- * Pascal Buhler
- * Philip Flarsheim
- * Philip Jägenstedt
- * Philippe Normand
- * Piotr Fusik
- * René Stadler
- * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
- * Robert Swain
- * Ryan Lortie
- * Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Kost
- * Stefan Sauer
- * Thiago Santos
- * Thibault Saunier
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vincent Penquerc'h
- * Wim Taymans
- * Youness Alaoui
- * Zaheer Abbas Merali
+ * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
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