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Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins 0.10.12 "Moving Along The Highway"
        

The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
in the 0.10.x stable series of the
GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins.


The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.



"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."


There are times when the world needs a color between black and white.
Quality code to match the good's, but two-timing, backstabbing and ready to
sell your freedom down the river.  These plug-ins might have a patent noose
around their neck, or a lock-up license, or any other problem that makes you
think twice about shipping them.


We don't call them ugly because we like them less.  Does a mother love her
son less because he's not as pretty as the other ones ? No  - she commends
him on his great personality.  These plug-ins are the life of the party.
And we'll still step in and set them straight if you report any unacceptable
behaviour - because there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend:
those with a rope around their neck and the people who do the cutting.


This module contains a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct
functionality, but distributing them might pose problems.  The license
on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd
like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems.
Distributors should check if they want/can ship these plug-ins.


Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-bad
contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
    rigorous quality testing we expect



  

Features of this release
    
      * Real and WMS RTSP improvements
      * Other cleanups and bug fixes
      * Improve ASF file handling
      * Large MPEG video file support
      * Interlacing support for MPEG video
      * New 'lamemp3dec' mp3 encoder element
      * x264enc moved from -bad
      * Remove id3mux in favour of the new id3tag element in -bad

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 401173 : [asfdemux] Stream doesn't play, stuck on first frame
      * 494528 : Simplifications of the LAME plugin
      * 574461 : [mpeg2dec] Lower rank and make ffdec_mpeg2video PRIMARY
      * 576305 : twolame plugin does not detet proper version
      * 579058 : [asfdemux] proper handling of RTSP input
      * 580803 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] Move x264enc to -ugly
      * 580869 : dvdsubdec ARGB support
      * 581341 : [lamemp3enc] doesn't build with LAME 3.97: implicit decla...
      * 581756 : [id3mux] replace with something more reliable
      * 582056 : [asfdemux] forcing an EOS on the pipeline doesn't work wi...
      * 582375 : mpeg2dec not building in gst-plugins-ugly
      * 583112 : [asfdemux] extract coverart (WM/Picture tag)
      * 573720 : [mp3parse] Memory leak when playing shoutcast streams
      * 581464 : xing data is being ignored
      * 578524 : synaesthesia MSVC compatibility

Download

You can find source releases of gst-plugins-ugly in the download directory:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/

GStreamer Homepage

More details can be found on the project's website:
http://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

Developers

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned 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.

        
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Contributors to this release
    
      * Alessandro Decina
      * Christian Schaller
      * David Hoyt
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Felipe Contreras
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Janin Kolenc
      * Josef Zlomek
      * Josep Torra
      * Kapil Agrawal
      * Marc-Andre Lureau
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Michael Smith
      * Michal Benes
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Kost
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Wim Taymans