gstreamer/RELEASE

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer FFmpeg 0.8.5 "For the better of the world"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new stable release of the
FFmpeg-based GStreamer plugin.


This module is separated from GStreamer Plugins for easier maintenance
and decoupled release cycles.
Our CVS contains both the patched source code to FFmpeg, as well as the
set of patches against upstream CVS, so we can send patches upstream
regularly from our modifications.

  
Features of this release
    
      * codecs for most popular formats
      * stability fixes
      * gcc4 support
      * snapshot update to 21/4
      * timestamp smoothing
      * deinterlacer and scaler elements added
      * new codecs for alac, shorten
      * much improved h264 support
      * some muxers added (mpeg, mp4)
      * decoder performance improvements

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 149097 : Internal GStreamer error: pad problem. File a bug.
      * 169082 : segfault with invalid pipeline
      * 169823 : [enhancement] add alac decoding support :)
      * 172668 : gst-ffmpeg 0.8.4 doesn't compile with gcc4
      * 172961 : valgrind gives a lot of errors on gst-ffmpeg elements
      * 173044 : [PATCH to ffmpeg] Memory error in mjpeg_decode_frame
      * 300200 : cpu usage on certain .mov file goes to 100% once file has...
      * 300923 : [PATCH] make ffdec_* elements use gst_pad_alloc_buffer
      * 301717 : [PATCH] ffenc_mpeg4 segfaults in _get_caps
      * 301783 : [PATCH] enable our get/release_buffer functions in ffmpegdec
      * 302017 : possible segfault
      * 302147 : [PATCH] support YUVJ(420|422|444)P colorspace format in f...
      * 306530 : quicktime files encoded with "Sorensen video v.3" have fr...
      * 306770 : [PATCH] only do timestamp interpolation for delayed streams
      * 306893 : Unreffing already unreffed buffer when going from PAUSED-...

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.

        
Contributors to this release
    
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Edward Hervey
      * Luca Ognibene