gstreamer/RELEASE

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.4 "Alias"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.


The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.


This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding,
conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media
handling functionality to the core.  You need the GStreamer core module
to make them work.  The versions do not need to match exactly, as long
as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.


The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module.  If you
want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this
module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins.  An FFmpeg-based colorspace
element has been added to the Plugins however.

  
Features of this release
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
      * Internationalization
      * New translation in this release: Albanian
      * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nl sq sr sv uk
      * licensing corrections
      * fixes for compiling with G_DISABLE_ASSERT
      * pixel aspect ratio conversion fixes
      * tcpserversink fixes and additions
      * multifdsink can use poll now as well
      * interleave fixes
      * audioscale fixes
      * videotestsrc fixes
      * v4lsrc fixes
      * theoradec, theoraenc fixes
      * lame fixes
      * flac fixes
      * ximagesink, xvimagesink fixes
      * sunaudio fixes

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 135407 : [xviddec] shows green frames when decoding packed bitstre...
      * 140432 : Osssink and alsasink broken on nforce2 (intel8x0) soundcard
      * 140897 : Incorrect segment duration in files created with matroska...
      * 140898 : No writing application specified in matroska files create...
      * 141554 : vorbis in matroska files makes the vorbisdec plugin segfault
      * 144091 : [Solaris] audio mixer element
      * 144616 : Infinite loop in wavparse.
      * 148711 : typefind function for TTA audio files
      * 148950 : matroskademux doesn't set buffer duration
      * 148951 : matroskademux misses the tta codec in its codec list
      * 151232 : [lame] doesn't build with lame-3.90
      * 151236 : [v4l] compile failure
      * 151410 : Memory leaks in multifdsink
      * 151462 : theora plugin Makefile broken

Download

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

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

The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found
under /system/gstreamer/0.8.  Applications should use the gconf library,
as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.

  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Arwed v. Merkatz
      * Balamurali Viswanathan
      * Benjamin Otte
      * David Schleef
      * Gernot Ziegler
      * Iain Holmes
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Laurent Dhima
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Sebastien Cote
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Wim Taymans
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali