gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins 0.10.5 "She said"
        

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



"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."


There are times when the world needs a color between black and white.
Quality code to match the good's, but two-timing, backstabbing and ready to
sell your freedom down the river.  These plug-ins might have a patent noose
around their neck, or a lock-up license, or any other problem that makes you
think twice about shipping them.


We don't call them ugly because we like them less.  Does a mother love her
son less because he's not as pretty as the other ones ? No  - she commends
him on his great personality.  These plug-ins are the life of the party.
And we'll still step in and set them straight if you report any unacceptable
behaviour - because there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend:
those with a rope around their neck and the people who do the cutting.


This module contains a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct
functionality, but distributing them might pose problems.  The license
on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd
like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems.
Distributors should check if they want/can ship these plug-ins.


Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
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
    
      * Improved asf playback
      * Fixes to MPEG demuxer
      * Improved Real playback
      * Fix crasher bugs in the MPEG video decoder
      * DVD-read-src improvements
      * mp3 parser fixes
      * Threadsafe design and API

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 361584 : [mpeg2dec] framerate=0/0 on caps leads to crash
      * 162417 : [mpeg] movie skips
      * 340433 : [dvdread] fails to play certain DVDs with playbin and Totem
      * 348002 : AC3 5.1 foreground movie sound cannot be heard in Totem/g...
      * 350761 : [a52dec] Select output format based on peer element caps
      * 350778 : [mpegdemux] Send update newsegments
      * 356004 : [mpeg2dec] memory corruption
      * 361140 : [lame] lame bitrate=196 errors out in setup
      * 362639 : Fixes compiling with forte: warning clean up (part 6)
      * 369627 : [mpeg2dec] unit test addition and memleak fix
      * 374760 : [PATCH] last buffer sent by lame may not have (valid) tim...
      * 374914 : this mp4 video doesn't play correctly (codec problem)
      * 384447 : totem crashes while trying to play dvd on ppc
      * 385192 : mpegparse accesses random memory
      * 334322 : [mpegdemux] playbin freezes with VobSub subtitles
      * 384989 : misparsing of Real Media mux leads to buffer overrun
      * 384996 : Tailored or broken Real Media mux file crashes RM demuxer
      * 327350 : [mpeg2dec] altivec crashes on misaligned buffers
      * 350723 : [mad] Wrong output buffer timestamping

Download

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

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
    
      * David Schleef
      * Jan Arne Petersen
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Josep Torra Valles
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Martin Zlomek
      * Michael Smith
      * Michal Benes
      * Roland Kay
      * Sebastian Droege
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Wim Taymans
      * Yves Lefebvre