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Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.7.90
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The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the stable
1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of
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the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
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series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
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Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
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during the stable 1.8 release series.
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This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
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plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
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This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
their development.
This module contains elements for, among others:
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device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
containers: ogg
codecs: vorbis, theora
text: textoverlay, subparse
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sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
network: tcp
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typefind functions
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audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
visualisation: libvisual
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video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
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high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
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libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
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Other modules containing plugins are:
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gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
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)
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Bugs fixed in this release
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* 761257 : multisocketsink: doesn't handle client close and EWOULDBLOCK
* 761588 : opusdec: no mono/stereo channel conversion
* 761851 : video: add orc UYVY422 to GRAY8 conversion function
* 762451 : id3v2frames: read conductor tag
* 762674 : Compilation error building html in gst-plugins-base-1.7.2
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==== Download ====
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You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
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directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
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The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
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==== Homepage ====
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The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
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==== Support and Bugs ====
We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
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).
Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
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Contributors to this release
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* Adam Miartus
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* Edward Hervey
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* Göran Jönsson
* Lim Siew Hoon
* Luis de Bethencourt
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* Sebastian Dröge
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* Tim-Philipp Müller
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* Tom Deseyn
* Vincent Penquerc'h
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* Wim Taymans
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