-GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.4 "Alias"
-
+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!
+
+
+This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new
+features, bug fixes and other improvements.
+
+
+See
+http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/
+for the full list of changes.
+
+
+
+"That an accusation?"
+
+
+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.
-The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
-in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.
+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.
-The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
-It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
-It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.
+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.
-This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding,
-conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media
-handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module
-to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long
-as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.
+
+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)
-The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If you
-want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this
-module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based colorspace
-element has been added to the Plugins however.
-Features of this release
-
- * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
- * Internationalization
- * New translation in this release: Albanian
- * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nl sq sr sv uk
- * licensing corrections
- * fixes for compiling with G_DISABLE_ASSERT
- * pixel aspect ratio conversion fixes
- * tcpserversink fixes and additions
- * multifdsink can use poll now as well
- * interleave fixes
- * audioscale fixes
- * videotestsrc fixes
- * v4lsrc fixes
- * theoradec, theoraenc fixes
- * lame fixes
- * flac fixes
- * ximagesink, xvimagesink fixes
- * sunaudio fixes
Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 135407 : [xviddec] shows green frames when decoding packed bitstre...
- * 140432 : Osssink and alsasink broken on nforce2 (intel8x0) soundcard
- * 140897 : Incorrect segment duration in files created with matroska...
- * 140898 : No writing application specified in matroska files create...
- * 141554 : vorbis in matroska files makes the vorbisdec plugin segfault
- * 144091 : [Solaris] audio mixer element
- * 144616 : Infinite loop in wavparse.
- * 148711 : typefind function for TTA audio files
- * 148950 : matroskademux doesn't set buffer duration
- * 148951 : matroskademux misses the tta codec in its codec list
- * 151232 : [lame] doesn't build with lame-3.90
- * 151236 : [v4l] compile failure
- * 151410 : Memory leaks in multifdsink
- * 151462 : theora plugin Makefile broken
+
+ * 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 in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/
+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).
-
-Applications
+There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
-The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found
-under /system/gstreamer/0.8. Applications should use the gconf library,
-as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.
+==== 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.
+
+
Contributors to this release
- * Arwed v. Merkatz
- * Balamurali Viswanathan
- * Benjamin Otte
- * David Schleef
- * Gernot Ziegler
- * Iain Holmes
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Johan Dahlin
- * Laurent Dhima
- * Ronald Bultje
- * Sebastien Cote
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
- * Wim Taymans
- * Zaheer Abbas Merali
-
+ * Arun Raghavan
+ * Julien Isorce
+ * Matthew Waters
+ * Sebastian Dröge
+ * Thibault Saunier
+
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