-GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.1 "Slimy - yet satisfying"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.6.0
+
+
+The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in the
+stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.10.x stable series of the
-GStreamer Bad Plug-ins.
+This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new
+features, bug fixes and other improvements.
-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.
+See
+http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/
+for the full list of changes.
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
-
- * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
- * Threadsafe design and API
- * Lots of fixes for the QT/MOV demuxer, including
- restoring the ability to play web streams, and more
- codecs supported
- * AAC decoder fixes
- * MMS source fixes
- * DirectFB plugin updated
- * New plugins ported to 0.10: swfdec, XVid, dtsdec, glimagesink
- * New libneon based http source filter
- * APE tag reader moved to gst-plugins-good module
Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 303167 : Add bzip2 support
- * 322973 : [wavpack] erroneous sampling rates range
- * 326524 : Support for Indeo 3-encoded QuickTime files
- * 327133 : [qtdemux] QuickTime with 8-bit audio
- * 328854 : AAC+ stream not working with FAAD plugin
- * 330089 : [bz2] Wrong mimetype and no typefinding
- * 331302 : bz2 plugin source files lack copyright notices
- * 331543 : crash on iTunes MPEG v4 AAC-LC files
- * 331582 : [qtdemux] protect log statement against invalid memory ac...
+
+ * 754903 : eagl: crashes or no video display on reuse
+ * 755249 : gtkglsink: Hide and cleaned the GtkWindow we might create
+ * 755251 : gtksink: Rework threading around GtkWindow creation
+ * 755411 : mpdparser: Only check stream- > segments for a repeated last segment if we have a static list of segments
+ * 755426 : decklinkvideosrc: Can't go to PAUSED again from READY
+ * 755456 : glmemory: fix texture leak in _gl_mem_copy
+ * 755459 : gtksink: Do not show window until we reach the PAUSED state
+ * 755542 : gtk: Fix a race where we end up setting wrong VideoInfo
+ * 755618 : gstglfilter: fix error GL_INVALID_OPERATION " glBindBuffer: buffer bound to more than 1 "
+
+==== Download ====
-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 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/
-GStreamer Homepage
+==== Homepage ====
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+The project's website is http://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.
-CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
-All code is in CVS and can be checked out 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
- * Andy Wingo
- * Christian Schaller
- * David Schleef
- * Edgard Lima
- * Edward Hervey
- * Fabrizio Gennari
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Julien MOUTTE
- * Lutz Mueller
- * Sebastien Moutte
- * Stefan Kost
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Wim Taymans
+ * Arun Raghavan
+ * Julien Isorce
+ * Matthew Waters
+ * Sebastian Dröge
+ * Thibault Saunier
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