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Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.0.0
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The GStreamer project is pleased to announce the very first release of the
new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
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The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI
compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed in parallel
with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
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Major improvements include: more flexible memory handling; extensible and
negotiable metadata for buffers; caps negotiation and renegotiation mechanisms,
decoupled from buffer allocation; improved caps renegotiation; automatic
re-sending of state for dynamic pipelines; reworked and more fine-grained pad
probing; simpler and more descriptive audio and video caps; more efficient
allocation of buffers, events and other mini objects; improved timestamp
handling; support for gobject-inspection-based language bindings; countless
other improvements.
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Most of these changes involve the GStreamer plugin API. The application API
has changed comparatively little, and most applications should be fairly easy
to port to the new API. There is a porting guide available.
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The GStreamer team would like to thank everyone who helped bring this release
about, whether by submitting patches, reporting bugs, testing, sponsoring
development, attending hackfests, or simply supplying moral support.
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This is the end of a long development process, but also the beginning of
one. This release does not mark the pinnacle of perfection, but the point
where the team is content with the API and stability and quality of the code
base in general, especially compared to the old 0.10 series.
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There will be bugs to fix, and starting from this release there will be
distinct bug-fixing and feature development cycles, with the goal of getting
bug-fixes out quicker and unencumbered by other more risky changes. See
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http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReleasePlanning/RoadMap
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for a tentative road map and possible schedule.
=== Module
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"That an accusation?"
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No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
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cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
showdown.
Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
You dig.
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This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
- be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
depending on the other factors.
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If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
New contributors can start here for things to work on.
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Other modules containing plugins are:
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gst-plugins-base : a basic set of well-supported plugins
gst-plugins-good : a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly : a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems
for distributors
gst-libav : a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
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==== Download
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You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
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http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
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==== GStreamer Homepage
More details can be found on the project's website:
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http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
==== 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
or
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bugs/
==== Developers
GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be
cloned from there. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and
applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list and/or pop into
our #gstreamer IRC channel on Freenode.
==== Contributors to this release
Alban Browaeys
Albert Astrals Cid
Aleix Conchillo Flaque
Alessandro Decina
Andoni Morales Alastruey
Andre Moreira Magalhaes (andrunko)
Andy Wingo
Antoine Tremblay
Arnaud Vrac
Arun Raghavan
Benjamin Otte
blake tregre
Brian Pepple
Carlos Rafael Giani
Carsten Kroll
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Damien Lespiau
Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula
David Biomech360
David Schleef
Dmitry Ketov
Edward Hervey
Fabrizio (Misto) Milo
Gil Pedersen
Guillaume Desmottes
Gwenole Beauchesne
Jacob Meuser
Jan Schmidt
John Hein
Jonas Larsson
Julian Scheel
Julien Isorce
Lasse Laukkanen
Luis de Bethencourt
Lukáš Lalinský
Marc-André Lureau
Mark Nauwelaerts
Mart Raudsepp
Matej Knopp
Michael Smith
Mike Ruprecht
Nicola Murino
Nicolas Dufresne
Oleksij Rempel (Alexey Fisher)
Olivier Crête
Patricia Muscalu
Peter Kjellerstedt
Peter Korsgaard
Peter Seiderer
Philippe Normand
Raimo Järvi
René Stadler
Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
Rico Tzschichholz
Rob Clark
Robert Swain
Sebastian Dröge
Sebastian Rasmussen
Sreerenj Balachandran
Stefan Kost
Stefan Sauer
Thiago Santos
Thibault Saunier
Thomas Vander Stichele
Tim-Philipp Müller
Tommi Myöhänen
Tony Houghton
Vincent Penquerc'h
Wim Taymans
Wind Yuan
Xavier Queralt
Youness Alaoui
Zaheer Abbas Merali
Zhao Halley
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