gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.6 "Chao"
        


The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
in the 0.10.x stable series of the
GStreamer Base 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 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
      * QoS in sinks and transform elements
      * Needs GStreamer 0.10.5 for new GstBaseSink::async_playback() vmethod
      * added theoraparse element

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 313136 : [playbin] hang while playing truncated ogg file
      * 172848 : [subparse] subtitles with special chars are displayed as ...
      * 305279 : [riff] uncompressed AVIs with 24bpp don't work
      * 320765 : [ffmpegcolorspace] make win32+msvc compliant, don't use _...
      * 323852 : Disable tests/icles on platforms that do not have X
      * 325653 : build errors compiling audioresample on win32(vs7)
      * 327357 : gst-plugins-base fails to compile with GCC 4.1
      * 334620 : [gnomevfssrc] fails to connect to icecast streaming servers
      * 334822 : [ffmpegcolorspace] YVU9 support
      * 335028 : [typefinding] ID3 v1 tag is not recognized with mp3-in-wa...
      * 335365 : inefficient use of GList in gst-plugins-base
      * 336190 : [gnomevfssink] should accept non-URI filenames as " location " 
      * 336194 : [gnomevfssrc] some minor memory leaks
      * 336477 : plugins need better/univied descriptions
      * 336617 : Unable to recognise MPEG TS stream
      * 337548 : Memory leaks in basertpdepayload
      * 337945 : [oggdemux] segment stop position ignored
      * 338419 : Regression in the handling of files with multiple audio/s...
      * 338897 : Videoscale crashes as part of DVD to Ogg transcoding
      * 339013 : [videorate] Goes into an infinite loop
      * 339047 : [riff] handle H264 fourcc in addition to h264
      * 339212 : ISO file typefinding regression
      * 330748 : deadlock in base audio sink on playing- > paused state change

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.

        
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Contributors to this release
    
      * Andy Wingo
      * Antoine Tremblay
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Fabrizio Gennari
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Julien MOUTTE
      * Michael Smith
      * Michal Benes
      * Sebastien Moutte
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Tommi Myöhänen
      * Wim Taymans
      * j^