X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE;h=e6d67760f87bec9d1db817784b21a984bacd7a1d;hb=db52a2e2e655a9a06835b91a0b3f1f261c930455;hp=ae072f015d1a61e61e2ce233a93bb908a0b323a4;hpb=979a6a3373987296833b739285e9451a3ae52fd7;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgst-plugins-good.git diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index ae072f0..e6d6776 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,106 +1,96 @@ +This is GStreamer gst-plugins-good 1.16.2. -Release notes for GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.11.91 "I smell the blood of an Englishman" - +The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug-fix release in the +stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! +The 1.16 release series adds new features on top of the 1.14 series and is +part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia +framework. -The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release -in the 0.11.x unstable series of the -GStreamer Good Plug-ins. +Full release notes will one day be found at: + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ -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 usually be provided +shortly after the release. +This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction +with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience. + - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins -A collection of plug-ins you'd want to have right next to you on the -battlefield. Shooting sharp and making no mistakes, these plug-ins have it -all: good looks, good code, and good licensing. Documented and dressed up -in tests. If you're looking for a role model to base your own plug-in on, -here it is. + - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional + media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio, + video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc. + - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred + license -If you find a plot hole or a badly lip-synced line of code in them, -let us know - it is a matter of honour for us to ensure Blondie doesn't look -like he's been walking 100 miles through the desert without water. + - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose + problems for distributors + - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made + their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one + reason or another. Many of these are are production quality + elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit + tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing + we expect yet. -This module contains a set of plug-ins that we consider to have good quality - code, correct functionality, our preferred license (LGPL for the plug-in - code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). -We believe distributors can safely ship these plug-ins. -People writing elements should base their code on these elements. + - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is + where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders + for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc. + - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using + VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware. -Other modules containing plug-ins are: + - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for + embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax + implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi. + - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP -gst-plugins-base -contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins -gst-plugins-ugly -contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, 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 + - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing +==== Download ==== +You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download +directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ - +The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at +https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/ -Features of this release - - * Ported flx, dv1394, oss and oss4 plugins - * Lots of bugfixes and other improvements -There were no bugs fixed in this release - +==== Homepage ==== -Download +The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ -You can find source releases of gst-plugins-good in the download directory: -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/ +==== Support and Bugs ==== -GStreamer Homepage +We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org +for bug reports and feature requests: -More details can be found on the project's website: -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer -Support and Bugs +Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See -We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests: -http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/ -Developers +for more 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. +For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the +gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details). - -Applications - -Contributors to this release - - * Alban Browaeys - * Bastien Nocera - * Chris Pankow - * Edward Hervey - * Luis de Bethencourt - * Mark Nauwelaerts - * Mart Raudsepp - * Pascal Buhler - * Peter Seiderer - * Sebastian Dröge - * Thiago Santos - * Tim-Philipp Müller - * Vincent Penquerc'h - * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal - * Wim Taymans - * Youness Alaoui - * idc-dragon - * uraeus - * Руслан Ижбулатов -  \ No newline at end of file +There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network. + +==== Developers ==== + +GStreamer source code repositories can be found on GitLab on freedesktop.org: + + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer + +and can also be cloned from there and this is also where you can submit +Merge Requests or file issues for bugs or feature requests. + +Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should +subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list: + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel