- GStreamer "Desperately Seeking Sexiness" 0.4.0 released
+ 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. We are quickly moving forward at
- this time and more and more applications using GStreamer are popping
- up. Please see the [1]release page for availability of source and
- binary packages.
+ 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
- * Graphical pipeline editor (gst-editor) ported to GNOME 2.0
- * Autobuild system using [2]bitches to generate good RPMs
- * Apt for rpm repository for GStreamer and plug-in dependencies on
- RedHat 7.2 and 7.3, for both Ximian Red-Carpet Gnome 2 and
- Gnomehide. See [3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/
- * Red-Carpet GStreamer channel under construction.
- * GConf schemas distributed for centralised sink settings
- * Moved to [4]http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ for bug reports. Bugzilla
- is more convenient than SourceForge's system, and Gnome already
- has a system running. Thanks to Gnome for the support.
- * Created a gst-feedback script to gather system information to be
- added to a bug report for better debugging.
+ * 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
- * New much improved registry system implemented.
- * New event-driven seek support. Event system is now working and
- implemented
- * Header files are now in a versioned directory to ease build pains.
- * Improvements and bugfixes todparams.
- * Docs updated, registry and system clock documentation added
- * More tests added for improved troubleshooting
- * Cothreads code made more POSIX-compatible
- * PowerPC portability fixes
+ * 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
- * Quicktime plug-in rewritten
- * [5]Effectv video effects plug-ins included
- * Audio effect plug-ins fixes (int2float, floatcast etc.)
- * A new filter plug-in for audio filters
- * OSS plug-in fixes
- * Audiofile plug-in works again (depends on upstream patch getting
- included)
- * lavencode plug-in renamed yuv4mpeg
- * Synaesthesia plug-in added to gst-visualisation packages
- * [6]Jack plug-in working and packaged -- CVS Jack required
- * Floatcast plug-in added
- * Include file setup fixes
- * Avi plug-in ported to avifile 0.7.7
- * Lots of fixes and cleanups on the DV plug-in
- * libfame plug-in added (mpeg4)
- * libdvdnav plug-in added
- * Better URI handling in gnome-vfs plug-in
- * RTP plug-in updated and ported to the [7]oRTP library
+ * 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 two schedulers, named 'basic' and
- 'standard'. Basic is the one we have been shipping for a long time now
- and is still the default in GStreamer 0.4.0. There are however some
- limitations and threadrelated bugs in basic. These limitations are not
- present in standard, but unfortunately standard does not work with
- i686 glibc atm due to differences in the way threads are handled
- compared to other architectures including i386. We hope to get the
- remaining issues in standard fixed before 0.4.1 and use that as
- default.
-
- As for the bugs in basic we did not feel they warranted not releasing
- 0.4.0 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.
-
- If you want to test the standard scheduler, run your GStreamer
- application with --gst-scheduler=standard
+ 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,
- [8]http://gstreamer.net/.
+ [3]http://gstreamer.net/.
-Support
+Support and Bugs
- We use [9]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
+ 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
+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 [10]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be
+ 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
Contributors to this release
- Core
+ Patches to the core of Gstreamer
- * Erik Walthinsen <omega(AT)temple-baptist.com>
* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
* Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com>
- * Benjamin Otte <in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de>
* 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>
- * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
- * Bastien Nocera <hadess(AT)hadess.net>
- * Martin Enlund <martin(AT)enlund.net>
- * Arik Devens <arik(AT)gnome.org>
* Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
* Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com>
- * Rehan Khwaja <rehankhwaja(AT)yahoo.com>
- * Kentarou Fukuchi <fukuchi(AT)is.titech.ac.jp>
- * Artyom Baginski <artm(AT)nerve.v2.nl>
* David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
- * Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel(AT)free.fr>
+ * 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)linuxrising.org>
- * Calum Selkirk <cselkirk(AT)panix.com>
+ * 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://gstreamer.net/releases/current/
- 2. http://urgent.rug.ac.be/thomas/
- 3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/
+ 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://effectv.sourceforge.net/
- 6. http://jackit.sf.net/
- 7. http://www.linphone.org/ortp/
- 8. http://gstreamer.net/
- 9. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
- 10. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
+ 5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
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