X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE;h=e6d67760f87bec9d1db817784b21a984bacd7a1d;hb=fc282d2a3d0916bb94fb80b36aae008f1e4a9831;hp=c99188769c0a1055eaaaffd033fd30a28faa560e;hpb=fa8116cc1f930f0209885b5372a67028de7e440c;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgst-plugins-good.git diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index c991887..e6d6776 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,73 +1,63 @@ +This is GStreamer gst-plugins-good 1.16.2. -Release notes for GStreamer Good Plugins 1.12.2 +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 GStreamer team is proud to announce the second bugfix release in the stable -1.12 release 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. +Full release notes will one day be found at: -This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.12.x. For a -full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ +Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided +shortly after the release. -See /releases/1.12/ for the full release notes. +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 -"Such ingratitude. After all the times I've saved your life." + - 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 -A collection of plugins you'd want to have right next to you on the -battlefield. Shooting sharp and making no mistakes, these plugins 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 plugin on, -here it is. + - 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. -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-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. -This module contains a set of plugins that we consider to have good quality - code, correct functionality, our preferred license (LGPL for the plugin - code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). -We believe distributors can safely ship these plugins. -People writing elements should base their code on these elements. + - 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 -Other modules containing plugins are: - - -gst-plugins-base -contains a basic set of well-supported plugins -gst-plugins-ugly -contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for - distributors -gst-plugins-bad -contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the - rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation - and/or unit tests -gst-libav -contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg) - - - - - -Bugs fixed in this release - - * 783778 : Missing souphttpsrc plugin on Windows - * 784282 : rtspsrc crash when HTTP tunneling with digest authentication - * 784486 : imagefreeze: use after free in seek handler causes criticals - * 784616 : rtpgsmpay: GSM over RTP gives bad result / broken payload data - * 784812 : Can't play quicktime animation files (RLE) in Windows 64bit + - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing ==== Download ==== -You can find source releases of gst-plugins-good in the download -directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/ +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 -http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/ +https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/ ==== Homepage ==== @@ -75,10 +65,16 @@ The project's website is https://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 +We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org +for bug reports and feature requests: -Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer + +Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See + + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/ + +for more details. For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details). @@ -87,18 +83,14 @@ 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). +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. - - -Contributors to this release - - * Josep Torra - * Nicolas Dufresne - * Sebastian Dröge - * Tim-Philipp Müller - * Yasushi SHOJI -  \ No newline at end of file +subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list: + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel