-
- GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1]
-
- The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
- GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused
- on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of
- GStreamer are API stable at this point. In preparation of a stable
- release, we have also done a thorough license audit to make sure that
- the licenses of all plug-ins are properly documented, and that as many
- of them as possible are available under the LGPL license that
- GStreamer uses.
-
- We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
- development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
- check out our [1]applications status page.
-
-Updates and Enhancements
-
- General
-
- * Further work on the Graphical Pipeline Editor, getting to be very
- stable and well working.
- * KDE/Qt bindings created for easier creation of KDE applications on
- top of GStreamer
- * General C++ bindings for use with gtkmm and other C++ projects
- added to gst-bind module (in CVS)
- * Effectv and virtualdub based plug-ins relicensed under LGPL
- (previously GPL)
- * Some manual examples updated and extracted to code (in
- examples/manual)
-
- Core
-
- * Many memleaks plugged
- * Lots of code cleaning
- * Many documentation improvements
- * Small change to [2]Plugin API
- * Removed use of -Wall and -Werror from release tarball for non-gcc
- compilers, more permanent solution upcoming.
- * Old schedulers renamed: we now use basicomega as the default
- scheduler, with the others being fastomega, basicwingo and
- fastwingo.
-
- Plug-ins
-
- * BSD and Darwin cd playing
- * New Mixermatrix plugin added
- * New Flash plugin added
- * RTP plugin moved back to librtp and plugin now includes library
- code (still experimental, check configure --help on how to enable)
- * New v4l2 plugins
- * Updated v4l plugins
- * Improvements to dvdnav plugin
- * iRadio support added to gnomevfs plugin
- * Median video plugin updated and now working
- * Fixed many major bugs in the gnome-vfs library
- * Got rid of misleading warnings from plugins
- * Avi muxer much improved
- * Fix bug in mad plugin that caused loss of frames
- * mp3 typefind fixed to properly handle id3v2 tags
-
-Known Issues
-
- GStreamer currently ships with schedulers based on two cothread
- packages. The 'omega' cothread package is the one we have been
- shipping for a long time now and is still the default in this release.
- There are however some limitations and thread-related bugs in the
- omega scheduler. These limitations are not present in the 'wingo'
- schedulers, but unfortunately it does not work with i686 glibc at this
- time due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to
- other architectures, including i386. A new (third) scheduler (that
- doesn't use cothreads) is being developed.
-
- As for the bugs in the 'omega' schedulers, we did not feel they
- warranted not releasing 0.4.1 as they are rather obscure. For instance
- if you are using Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs
- nonstop to trigger it. You can choose a different scheduler by passing
- --scheduler=(name) to any GStreamer application.
-
- Wim Taymans has started work on a new scheduler. The first part is
- already in CVS, but it will probably still be some months before it is
- ready.
-
-GStreamer Homepage
-
- More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
- [3]http://gstreamer.net/.
-
-Support and Bugs
-
- We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
- "product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following
- before writing a bug report :
-gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
-
- and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have
- some information useful in the debugging process.
-
-Developers
-
- GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. 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.
-
- We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix
- and True64 that would be willing to try building and testing
- GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.
-
-Contributors to this release
-
- Patches to the core of Gstreamer
-
- * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
- * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
- * Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com>
- * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
- * Cameron Hutchison <camh(AT)xdna.net>
- * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
- * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
-
- Plugins and Sample Applications
-
- * Richard Boulton <richard(AT)tartarus.org>
- * David Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
- * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
- * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com>
- * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
- * Charles Schmidt <cbschmid(AT)users.sourceforge.net>
- * Goraxe <goraxe@ntlworld.com>
- * Colin Walters <walters(AT)gnu.org>
- * Kristian Rietveld <kris(AT)gtk.org>
-
- Misc
-
- * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
- * Tim Jansen <tim.jansen(AT)kde.org>
- * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
- * Christian Meyer <chrisime(AT)gnome.org>
-
- [1] It is a little-known fact that the Beatles decided their track
- listing for their albums based on a process called the 'GEP' process.
- After some initial problems, this worked very well. The only known
- failure of this process happened when George Harrison commited the
- out-of-place 'Within You Without You' to Sergeant Pepper without
- review by the other band members. This near split-up led to one of
- their finest songs on the world-reknowned White Album.
-
-References
-
- 1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
- 2. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9557296/
- 3. http://gstreamer.net/
- 4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
- 5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
+This is a CVS version of GStreamer.
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