-Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.18 "Diminishing Returns"
-
+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
-
- * aacparse: lots of fixes, now based on common baseparser class and merged into audioparser plugin
- * ac3parse: new AC3 parser element based on common baseparser class and part of new audioparser plugin
- * adpcmenc: new adpcm encoder element
- * aiffmux: new aiff muxer element
- * amrparse: use (default) time handling of baseparser class, merged into audioparser plugin
- * apexsink: change volume property to a double to make work with playbin2
- * asfmux: handle streams with different start times
- * asfmux: improve compatibility with WMSP in WMP
- * asfmux, rfbsrc, vmnc, mpegdemux, resindvd: fix alignment and endianness issues
- * assrender: countless fixes and improvements
- * audioparsers: rename baseparse GType name to avoid possible conflicts
- * audioparsers: fix seek handling, newsegment sending, push mode data draining
- * celt: make compile against earlier CELT versions
- * configure: call $PKG_CONFIG instead of pkg-config to fix cross compilation
- * dataurisrc: new source element for data:// URIs
- * faac: lots of fixes (channel layout, output caps, bps estimation etc.)
- * flacparse: fix multiple channel frame parsing; merged into new audioparser plugin
- * fpsdisplaysink: expose video sink using a property
- * h264parse: Correctly rewrite all nal prefixes
- * h264parse: fix caps parameters setting, framerate calculation
- * h264parse: fix regression in output buffer timestamping
- * h264parse: optionally output AUs rather than NALUs or transform from bytestream to sample format and vice versa
- * h264parse: parse SPS some more (e.g. for width/height)
- * ivorbisdec: moved to -base (to reuse same codebase as vorbisdec)
- * jpegformat: new jifmux element
- * jpegparse: new jpeg parser element (not autoplugged for now)
- * mmssrc: post error message in addition to redirect when connect fails
- * mpegtsdemux: Handle eac3 in PMT
- * mpegtsmux: add pat-interval and pmt-interval properties
- * mpegtsmux: Do not crash on misinterpreted h264
- * mpegtsmux: Fix mistake on previous commit
- * mpegtsmux: fix PAT/PMT insertion frequency, add PAT/PMT in streamheader
- * mpegtsmux: mark delta-unit on outgoing buffers
- * qtmux: add moov recovery feature (to finalise recording after crash or so)
- * qtmux: improves compatibility with some hardware players
- * qtmux: add support for ALAC, SVQ3, IMA ADPCM; improve j2k handling
- * qtmux: misc. tag writing fixes: write all udta children atoms; crash less
- * shapewipe: moved to -bad
- * vdpau: lots of fixes and refactoring
-
Bugs fixed in this release
- * 606657 : mpegtsmux crashes with h264parse in byte-stream mode
- * 607513 : input-selector segfaults in g_object_notify()
- * 440476 : RhythmBox displays an incorrect track length for .aac files.
- * 530513 : [h264parse] no width and height in output caps
- * 563433 : implement h264parse AVC output
- * 575878 : assrender searches entire current working directory when searching for fonts to use
- * 583098 : Add jpegparse element
- * 598350 : qtmux with AAC streams (from faac) generate invalid files
- * 598682 : make check fails due to fpsdisplaysink if xvimagesink does not exist
- * 598916 : qtmux: support more of j2k
- * 600409 : tremor/ivorbis: should pack result smarter
- * 601108 : gst-camera requires glade
- * 601417 : Problem compiling gst-plugins-bad 0.10.16
- * 602161 : bad .17 VPATH build fix
- * 602465 : gst/dtmf/tone_detect.h incompatible with MSVC
- * 602524 : frei0r: GST_EXTRA_MODULE_SUFFIX never defined
- * 602528 : lv2: vocoder plugin breaks gstreamer
- * 603938 : assrender cannot load font attachments in Matroska container
- * 603983 : gstdshowvideosink leaking DirectShow objects
- * 603986 : gstdshowvideosink not releasing the filter media event interface
- * 604099 : rtpmux: Make sure to call release_pad() when the element is disposed
- * 604101 : rtpmux: update the current_ssrc from the caps
- * 604280 : fpsdisplaysink: allow access to internal video sink used
- * 604311 : gst-plugins-bad: fails to build against libcelt 0.4.0
- * 604908 : [mpegtsmux] mark delta-unit on outgoing buffers
- * 604925 : qtmux shouldn't accept adts aac
- * 605720 : modplug: Add 32-bit depth caps
- * 605721 : modplug: Allow 1-channel output for 16 and 32 bit depth too
- * 605904 : mpegtsdemux doesn't handle e-ac-3 in PMT
- * 606371 : mpegdemux2 plugin doesn't work on some ARM CPU due to the guint32*'s alignment
- * 606636 : [mmssrc] no error message when connect to server fails
- * 606665 : error: " __MSVCRT_VERSION__ " redefined
- * 606677 : Port librdf (rdfsrc) to Windows
- * 606726 : FAAC bitrate setting has no effect
- * 606859 : Get mp4mux request pad during decodebin2's new-decoded-pad event fails.
- * 607105 : faac doesn't negotiate channel positions correctly
- * 607285 : cdxaparse leaks memory
- * 607555 : asfmux plugin generates data streams incompatible with WMSP (MMSH) and WMP
- * 607747 : [dvbsrc] Pipeline does not stop when reception is very bad
- * 608042 : [camerabin-example] v4l2 device busy after setting back to ready and changing the mode
- * 608651 : dshowvideosink.cpp crash
- * 608706 : assrender recursively scans directories for fonts
- * 608751 : [assrender] Random crashes because libass is not threadsafe
- * 608753 : assrender: use more compatible hinting method
- * 608896 : mpegtsmux: PAT/PMT interval fixes
- * 608998 : [jpegparse] unit test fails
- * 609055 : [qtmux - mp4mux] crash when setting
- * 609215 : [rsvg] fix compilation with MSVC
- * 609478 : [faad] SIGSEGV when caps contains codec_data=(buffer)NULL
- * 164870 : PNM [en,de]coder
- * 383478 : Need ac3 parser to support seeking in unframed .ac3 files
- * 606878 : [apexsink] crashes when changing volume in rhythmbox
- * 580731 : qtmux needs mapping for ALAC
- * 587922 : qtmux lacks mapping for Sorenson Video v3
- * 601576 : qtmux feature: moov recovery
-
-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
- * Carsten Kroll
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Arnaud Patard
- * Arnout Vandecappelle
- * Benjamin Otte
- * Carl-Anton Ingmarsson
- * Christian Schaller
- * David Hoyt
- * David Schleef
- * Edward Hervey
- * Eric Appleman
- * Grigori Goronzy
- * Håkon Skjelten
- * Håvard Graff
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Javier Jardón
- * Julien Moutte
- * Kaj-Michael Lang
- * Kipp Cannon
- * Lasse Laukkanen
- * Linqiang Pu
- * Marc-André Lureau
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Michael Smith
- * Olivier Crête
- * Peter van Hardenberg
- * Philippe Normand
- * René Stadler
+ * Arun Raghavan
+ * Julien Isorce
+ * Matthew Waters
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Kost
- * Stephen Depooter
- * Stephen McNamara
- * Teemu Katajisto
- * Thiago Santos
- * Thiago Sousa Santos
- * Thijs Vermeir
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
- * Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vincent GENIEUX
- * Vincent Penquerc'h
- * Wim Taymans
- * Xavier Queralt Mateu
- * Yaakov Selkowitz
- * unknown
- * Руслан Ижбулатов
+ * Thibault Saunier
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