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GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.2 "Then the devil is six"
        


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
      * ported gnomevfssink, cdparanoia
      * New library and base class: GstCddaBaseSrc
      * ported mixerutils.h
      * added 'sine-tab' waveform to audiotestsrc
      * added float audio to audiorate

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 324216 : [cdparanoia] missing patches from 0.8
      * 324696 : [videotestsrc] does not start counting the time from zero...
      * 324900 : Problem compiling gst-plugins-base with Forte
      * 325984 : [playbin] cannot handle sources that produce raw audio/video
      * 325990 : patch videotestsrc for using glib types
      * 326601 : GstRingBuffer crashes with alaw/mulaw caps
      * 327114 : [theoradec] should post tags on the bus
      * 327216 : vorbisdec segfaults on certain queries

API changed in this release
     

- API additions:
    
* added libgstcddabase
* added mixerutils.h

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
    
      * Edward Hervey
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Michael Smith
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Tommi Myöhänen