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Release notes for GStreamer FFmpeg Plug-ins 0.10.6 "A little itching in our bones"
        

The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
in the 0.10.x stable series of the
GStreamer FFmpeg 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.


This module contains plug-ins using libraries from the FFmpeg project.



Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
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
    
      * Update ffmpeg and libswscale snapshot
      * Prefer aspect ratios prescribed by the container over the codec
      * Improve ffmpeg encoders wrapping
      * Rewrite ffvideoscale to use libswscale
      * Improve H.264 wrapping

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 350738 : [ffvideoscale] GStreamer-Critical when pixel-aspects-rati...
      * 504056 : [ffvideoscale] Switch to using libswscale
      * 542216 : cross compilation and mingw32 support
      * 548304 : missing check for bz2 library and header
      * 551046 : gst-ffmpeg configure complains about libz2, should be libbz2
      * 556336 : [PATCH] gstffmpegdec.c: prefer demuxer's pixel aspect rat...
      * 556405 : gst-ffmpeg fails to build against 20081014 ffmpeg snapshot
      * 560137 : Two build fixes for using system ffmpeg
      * 560305 : x264enc & ffmux_* doesnt link

Download

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

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
    
      * Alexis Ballier
      * Damien Lespiau
      * Edward Hervey
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Robin Stocker
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Kost
      * Wim Taymans