-Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.22 "Toy Piano"
-
+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
-
- * aiffparse: add support for 32 bit and 64 bit floating point formats
- * aiffparse: the SSND header is 16 bytes large, not 8 + 16 bytes
- * assrender: refactor blitting, avoid writing past end of buffer
- * camerabin2: Add a property to select the encoding profile
- * camerabin2: Add custom filter properties
- * camerabin2: Add image-done message
- * camerabin2: Adding audio support for video recordings
- * camerabin2: Adding properties for image capture settings
- * camerabin2: Add methods for preview image message posting
- * camerabin2: Add preview-filter property
- * camerabin2: Adds new idle property
- * camerabin2: Add viewfinder caps related properties
- * camerabin2: Add viewfinder-sink property
- * camerabin2: Implement previewing
- * camerabin2: Implement tagsetter interface
- * camerabin2: Move preview helper functions to basecamerabinsrc
- * camerabin2: Move to encodebin
- * camerabin2: Moving preview image properties to basecamerasrc
- * camerabin: adding audio related properties
- * camerabin: Always take photo when preview-caps is set
- * camerabin: don't rely on the application running the default GLib main loop
- * camerabin: Events with select-all in input-selector
- * camerabin: Fix corner case for preview posting
- * camerabin: Use running time for muxing
- * celtenc: Fix compilation with celt >= 0.11.0
- * colorspace: add 16-bit-per-channel handling
- * colorspace: add dithering, add support for r210 and fix YUV->RGB matrixing
- * curlsink: add libcurl-based sink element
- * decklink: Add decklink plugin
- * directdrawsink: avoid aspect-ratio borders overlying other windows
- * directdrawsink: avoid rendering to invalid area
- * dshowvideosink: update for latest GstXOverlay changes
- * dvbsuboverlay: Fix using alpha values in blitting
- * dvdspu: don't write clipped lines to the output buffer
- * dvdsubdec: make up clut values if they weren't set
- * fieldanalysis: new fieldanalysis element
- * fpsdisplaysink: add "silent" property, fix "sync" property default value
- * fpsdisplaysink: add "frames-dropped" and "frames-rendered" properties
- * fpsdisplaysink: add "last-message" property and never print anything to stdout
- * gme: fix infinite looping by fading out after two loops
- * h263parse: add an h263parse element
- * hlsdemux: Add HTTP live streaming parser/demuxer element
- * id3mux: map new GST_TAG_ENCODED_BY to ID3v2 TENC frame
- * jifmux: Add GstTagXmpWriter support
- * jp2kdec, jp2kenc: add support v308 (4:4:4 YUV)
- * jp2kdec: post proper error when the image's colour space is not supported
- * jpegparse: misc. fixes
- * linsys: Add plugin for Linear Systems SDI boards
- * logoinsert: add "data" property; fix memleaks
- * mpegtsdemux: new (not-yet autoplugged) MPEG TS demuxer rewrite
- * mpegtsmux: add byte-stream to h264 template pad caps
- * mpegtsmux: don't error out if downstream fails to handle the newsegment event
- * mpegtspacketizer: Handle all ISO8859-x encodings in get_encoding()
- * opencv: make work with openCV 2.2
- * patchdetect: new element
- * rsvgoverlay: allow negative values for x/y/width/height
- * rsvgoverlay: implement x/y/width/height (absolute and relative) positioning and dimensioning
- * rtpvp8: Add simple payloaders and depayloaders for VP8
- * scenechange: new scene change detection element
- * sdi: Add raw SDI muxing/demuxing elements
- * shm: Allow ShmPipe to save a data pointer for applications
- * shm: Keep the ShmPipe alive as long as there are blocks left
- * shm: Make default perm u+rw g+r for shm area
- * shmsink: ensure gst_poll_wait is called first on descriptors
- * shmsink: Keep shmsink referenced while there are still buffers around
- * shmsrc: Keep GstPoll for whole src lifetime
- * shmsrc: Only connect to sink in PLAYING in live mode
- * vdpau: fixup GstFlowReturn handling
- * vdpausink: fix bug where we didn't setup vdpau on a user set window
- * videoparsers: new h263parse element
- * videoparsers: baseparse-based dirac parser, new baseparse-based h264parse
- * xvidenc: proxy downstream caps restrictions upstream via get_caps()
- * zebrastripe: New element
-
Bugs fixed in this release
- * 646211 : [camerabin] state changes need to be made when recording a video
- * 608786 : [mpegtsmux] Internal H.264 byte-stream wrapping isn't working correctly
- * 334107 : xviddec: segmentation fault after a few frames
- * 582167 : jacksink does not flush the jack port when going to READY
- * 586848 : qtmux, asfmux: remuxing streams with different start times
- * 591651 : dvbsrc: use better nicks for GstDvbSrcModulation and other enums
- * 594035 : [hlsdemux] Add HTTP Live Streaming playback support
- * 594280 : directdrawsink: avoid rendering to invalid area
- * 602847 : [dvdspu] Segfaults on seeking in matroska file
- * 611061 : [mpegtsmux] some buffers are forgotten to push in m2ts_mode
- * 615655 : [camerabin] shouldn't rely on running GLib main loop
- * 616814 : Photography interface extension: colour tone mode and noise reduction settings
- * 617532 : [qtmux] Take into account new-segments for incoming streams
- * 622276 : Add an h263parse element
- * 626618 : jpegparse doesn't handle APP12 marker
- * 632056 : Directdrawsink draws black stripes over the overlying dialog windows.
- * 639502 : [camerabin] should not re-create preview pipeline when setting new preview caps
- * 639763 : [dvbsuboverlay] Green borders around subtitles
- * 639841 : examples: camerabin: Don't set default values for GstPhotography interface settings
- * 640286 : elements/imagecapturebin check fails
- * 640287 : camerabin2 checks fail
- * 640327 : Add VP8 RTP payloaders and depayloaders
- * 640561 : opencv textwrite element renaming and proper structuring:
- * 640637 : Camerabin has warning: Internal GStreamer error: clock problem.
- * 640885 : Permission problems building bad
- * 641047 : [mpegaudioparse] Multiple issues with new mpegaudioparse element from -bad, lower rank?
- * 641178 : rtpvp8: build problem, needs to link with libgstbase-0.10
- * 641496 : New plugin: curlsink
- * 641530 : Camerabin should capture image if preview_caps is set even if filename is not set
- * 641712 : XWindow is never created in gst-camerabin-test example application
- * 641796 : opencv: make plugin work with opencv 2.2.0 release
- * 641857 : baseparse: Update min/max bitrate before first posting them
- * 641858 : mpegaudioparse: Post CBR bitrate as nominal bitrate
- * 642116 : rsvgoverlay: add position/dimension parameters
- * 642658 : rsvgoverlay: allow negative values for position/dimension parameters
- * 642671 : fieldanalysis: New element for analysing video input to produce progressive output
- * 643469 : fpsdisplaysink: add frames-dropped and frames-rendered properties
- * 643471 : fpsdisplaysink: fix default sync property value
- * 643607 : [celt] Doesn't compile with celt 0.11.1
- * 644176 : videofilters: needs to link against libm
- * 644208 : dcaparse: add depth and endianness to dts caps to allow elements to negotiate on these certain stream format requirements
- * 644429 : [mpegtsmux] in m2ts-mode, the tp_extra_header is incorrect
- * 645006 : [mpegtsmux] in m2ts-mode, PAT is written only once
- * 645053 : shm: multiple compile failures on Solaris 10
- * 645412 : [h264parse] h264parse doesn't set framed=True on src caps
- * 645420 : [scaletempo] Incorrectly handles new segments with stop == -1
- * 645502 : [h264parse] leaks fatally on certain streams
- * 645568 : aiffparse: doesn't play 24-bit AIFF properly
- * 645711 : patchdetect: link error while using gcc-4.52
- * 646256 : qtmux " buffer without timestamp/duration " error message could be more helpful
- * 646495 : hlsdemux: Add missing patches from my local branch
- * 646840 : shmsink: ensure gst_poll_wait is the first gst_poll function called on a descriptor
- * 646955 : dshowvideosink: Update to reflect latest GstXOverlay changes
- * 647030 : [fpsdisplaysink] " silent " property
- * 647364 : VGM files loop indefinately
- * 647498 : xvidenc not forwarding caps
- * 647564 : gst-plugins-bad configure.ac summary wrongly claims an exif plugin
- * 647830 : assrender: crashes with very large subtitles
- * 647852 : [schroenc] Crashes after some time when getting buffers after EOS
- * 647853 : [schrodec] Impossible to play very short files
- * 647854 : [schrodec] Allocates buffers with NULL caps from downstream
- * 648001 : configure: Fix linsys/decklink checks for Linux
- * 648929 : [tsdemux] Memory leaks everywhere
- * 649005 : y4mdec: add plugin description
- * 647751 : [hlsdemux] Fix usage of the element in players
- * 621027 : mpegtsparse problem when parsing EIT and obtaining Transport Stream packet size
-
-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
+ * 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 ====
+
+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).
-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.
+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
- * Alexey Fisher
- * Andoni Morales Alastruey
- * Andreas Frisch
* Arun Raghavan
- * Benjamin Gaignard
- * Byeong-ryeol Kim
- * Carl-Anton Ingmarsson
- * Chris E Jones
- * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
- * David Schleef
- * Edward Hervey
- * Fabrizio Milo
- * Haakon Sporsheim
- * Hu Gang
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Janne Grunau
- * Lasse Laukkanen
- * Lauri Lehtinen
- * Luciana Fujii Pontello
- * Luis de Bethencourt
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Mart Raudsepp
- * Mihai Draghicioiu
- * Olivier Aubert
- * Olivier Crête
- * Patricia Muscalu
- * Philip Jägenstedt
- * Philippe Normand
- * Raimo Järvi
- * René Stadler
- * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
- * Robert Swain
+ * Julien Isorce
+ * Matthew Waters
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sjoerd Simons
- * Sreerenj Balachandran
- * Stefan Kost
- * Teemu Katajisto
- * Thiago Santos
* Thibault Saunier
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vincent Penquerc'h
- * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
- * benjamin gaignard
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