2003-01-22 14:13:55 +00:00
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GStreamer "Panic Room" 0.5.2 released
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The GStreamer team is happy to announce our final prerelease for the
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stable 0.6 series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.
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From now on, GStreamer will follow a versioning scheme similar to
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kernel and GTK+/GLib releases. Odd minor numbers (like for this
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release) will be development releases. While GStreamer itself is very
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much under development, during stable releases we will guarantee API-
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and ABI-stability. The point of this development release cycle is to
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support Gnome 2.1.x development.
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GStreamer major-minor series versions will now be
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parallel-installable. Please update your applications to check for
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gstreamer-0.5, gstreamer-libs-0.5 and gstreamer-play-0.5 using
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pkg-config.
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We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
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development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
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check out our [1]applications status page.
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Updates and Enhancements
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Thread issues and GStreamer
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Many of GStreamers features relies heavily on threads. Unfortunately
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everything is not rosy in the Linux worlds of threads. If you have a
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glibc version installed compiled with i686 optimizations (which uses a
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different codepath than standard i386 glibc), there is a good chance
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you will experience thread-related crashes in gstreamer-based
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applications. There are a few workarounds to this available.
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* You can use an i386- or i586-optimized glibc package instead.
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* You can also try running the gstreamer-based applications using
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the command-line option --gst-scheduler=opt, which invokes a newly
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created scheduler that does not use threads. This scheduler is
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very new however so you might encounter other issues when using
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it.
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People using the Red Hat beta Phoebe are recommended to update to
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glibc from Rawhide. This solves all thread issues, thanks to the
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new NTPL thread library that is included there.
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General
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* Solaris Forte fixes, GStreamer now compiles with Forte
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* FreeBSD build fixes
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* Many minor build issues fixed
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* libgstplay updated to use filesrc
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Core
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* Many refcounting issues resolved
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* A few Valgrind detected memleaks killed
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Plug-ins
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* Fix to OSS plugin to handle blocking correctly [2]Bug 102025.
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* Wavparse plugin fixed to handle MPEG audio
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* Swfdec plugin updated, now has sound
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* Updated ffmpeg plugin to handle xvid movies
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* modplug updated to work better with gst-player
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* alsasink 100% cpu bug fixed
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* pngenc cleaned up
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GStreamer Homepage
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More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
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[3]http://gstreamer.net/.
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Support and Bugs
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We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
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"product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following
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before writing a bug report :
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gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
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and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have
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some information useful in the debugging process.
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Developers
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GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be
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checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library,
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plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel
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list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as
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necessary.
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We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix
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and True64 that would be willing to try building and testing
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GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.
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Contributors to this release
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Patches to the core of Gstreamer
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* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
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* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
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* David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
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* David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
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* Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
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* Brian Cameron <brian.cameron(AT)sun.com>
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Plugins and Sample Applications
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* Cameron Hutchison <camh+gst(AT)xdna.net>
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* Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
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* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
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* Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
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* J<>r<EFBFBD>my Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
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* Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)mad.scientist.com>
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* Daniel Fischer <dan(AT)f3c.com>
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* Martin Schlemmer <azarah(AT)gentoo.org>
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* Andrew Turner &li;zombie(AT)4free.co.nz>
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Misc
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* Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
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* Alp Toker <alp(AT)atoker.com>
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References
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1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
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2. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102025
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3. http://gstreamer.net/
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4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
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5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
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