gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.20 "Here I Go Again"
        


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
    
      * RTP improvements
      * Support digest auth for RTSP
      * Additional documentation
      * Support DSCP QoS in multifdsink
      * Add NV12/NV21 video buffer layouts
      * Video scaling now bilinear by default
      * Support more than 8 channels in audio conversions
      * Channel mapping fixes for audioconvert
      * Improve tmplayer and sami subtitle support
      * Support 1x1 pixel buffers for videoscale
      * Typefinding improvements for MPEG2, musepack
      * Ogg/Dirac mapping updated in oggmux
      * Fixes in ogg demuxing
      * audiosink synchronisation and slaving fixes
      * Support muting of the audio in playbin by selecting -1 as the audio stream
      * Work done on playbin2 and uridecodebin
      * Improvements in the experimental GIO plugin
      * decodebin fixes
      * Handle GAP buffers in some places
      * Various other leak and bug-fixes

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 526794 : [giosrc] totem doesn't work with some gvfs backends
      * 510417 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] Move gio to gst-plugins-base
      * 509125 : crash in CD Player: - playing CD - lowering/...
      * 517813 : [audioconvert] make gap aware
      * 302798 : [playbin] add mute property
      * 342294 : Setting playbin property current-audio=-1 also stops the ...
      * 398033 : [audioconvert] support more than 8 channels
      * 419351 : [avi/a52dec] AV synchronization problems
      * 467911 : [subparse] sami parser update
      * 469933 : multifdsink IPv6 and diffserv TOS/TC markup
      * 506659 : [textoverlay] rendering error when using non-standard widths
      * 512333 : [gstvorbistag] Retrieve Ogg/Vorbis cover art as image met...
      * 512382 : [playbin] race condition when pausing/playing multiple in...
      * 518037 : pbutils-enumtypes.c is not included in win32/vs6/libgstpb...
      * 521761 : gstaudioclock frozen the clock value until reaches latest...
      * 522401 : gdpdepay doesn't validate payload CRCs
      * 523993 : playbin2 blocks after a while when listening to a radio s...
      * 524724 : [PATCH] [baseaudiosrc] buffer-time and latency-time do no...
      * 525665 : Crash on Ogg/Vorbis with chain=NULL
      * 525915 : [streamheader] Unit test fails with " gst_adapter_peek: as...
      * 526173 : [typefinding] fails to detect mpeg video stream whereas m...
      * 529018 : gst_ogm_parse_stream_header creates fraction value with w...
      * 529500 : [videotestsrc] support for NV12 and NV21
      * 529546 : [Playbin] Memory leak in streaminfo handling
      * 530068 : Ogg Streams with Skeleton and Granulepos > 0 do not work(...
      * 530531 : [typefinding] bad read in mpeg_video_stream_type_find
      * 530719 : gst_video_calculate_display_ratio fails when playing Ogg ...
      * 530962 : [subparse] parses only every second line of TMPlayer subt...
      * 532454 : [NV12/NV21] videotestsrc and ffmpegcolorspace don't play ...
      * 533087 : GstRTSPTransport kept opaque in docs
      * 533817 : [audioconvert] Can't use default 7 channel layout / only ...
      * 534071 : Gdppay memleak
      * 534331 : race in decodebin when changing states while the internal...
      * 535356 : vorbisdec doesn't support 8 channels
      * 536475 : gdppay memleak and possible crash
      * 536521 : Refcounting errors in playbin
      * 536874 : Build failure on windows
      * 532166 : [ffmpegcolorspace] support NV12 format
      * 533617 : [audioconvert] Produces silence when converting 1/2 chann...
      * 536848 : [giosrc] Doesn't handle short reads properly
      * 536849 : [giosrc] Very slow doing any playback
      * 518082 : [alsamixer] playback volumes overwritten by capture volum...
      * 435633 : [PATCH] videorate not (fully) segment aware; causes frame...
      * 532364 : tcpclientsrc broken in 0.10.19
      * 533075 : gst_rtp_buffer_compare_seqnum doesn't do what it says
      * 533265 : [cddabasesrc] Sound Juicer cut a sector when ripping a track

API changed in this release
     
- API additions:
    
* decodebin2::sink-caps property
* giosrc::file property
* giosink::file property
* gst_base_audio_src_set_slave_method()
* gst_base_audio_src_get_slave_method()
* GstAudioClock::gst_audio_clock_reset()
* GstBaseAudioSrc:actual-buffer-time property
* GstBaseAudioSrc:actual-latency-time property
* gst_audio_check_channel_positions()
* add gst_tag_image_data_to_image_buffer()
* add gst_tag_list_add_id3_image()
* add GST_TAG_IMAGE_TYPE_NONE enum value

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
    
      * Antoine Tremblay
      * Bernard B
      * Damien Lespiau
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Felipe Contreras
      * Hannes Bistry
      * Henrik Eriksson
      * Jan Gerber
      * Jan Schmidt
      * John Millikin
      * Julien Moutte
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Michael Smith
      * Ole André Vadla Ravnås
      * Peter Kjellerstedt
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sjoerd Simons
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thijs Vermeir
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Victor STINNER
      * Wim Taymans
      * Wouter Cloetens
      * Young-Ho Cha