gstreamer/RELEASE

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.9.6 "White Eight"
        

The GStreamer team is petrified to announce a new release
in the 0.9.x development series of the
GStreamer Base Plug-ins.


The 0.9.x series is a development series and not recommended for 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.


This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
plugins, and helper libraries.

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:

  device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
  containers: ogg
  codecs: vorbis, theora
  text: textoverlay, subparse
  sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc
  network: tcp
  typefind
  audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume
  visualisation: libvisual
  video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
  aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin


Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
    distributors
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
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * lots of leak fixes
      * flicker-free and rewritten X sinks
      * fractional framerates
      * removed sinesrc, replaced by audiotestsrc

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 316442 : playbin should use autoaudiosink/autovideosink by default
      * 318353 : [ffmpegcolorspace] forward-port fixes from 0.8 branch
      * 320200 : vorbisenc: min-bitrate and max-bitrate are 1/1000 bps rat...
      * 321164 : gstringbuffer stops working under load
      * 321426 : ximage plugin should be renamed to ximagesink
      * 321446 : sinesrc should be dropped in favour of audiotestsrc
      * 321451 : GstRtpBuffer: no way to create a sub buffer with only the...
      * 321816 : [API] xoverlay API to post prepare-xwindow-id message
      * 321894 : vorbisenc doesn't compile
      * 322117 : Rename libgsttagedit to libgsttag

Download

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

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

CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
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 necessary.

        
Applications
  
Contributors to this release
    
      * 
      * Alessandro Dessina
      * Andy Wingo
      * Edward Hervey
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Julien Moutte
      * Luca Ocgibene
      * Michael Smith
      * Sebastien Cote
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Wim Taymans