From 5161f29e9989d290216b027908209f9f7fcbdbcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Vander Stichele Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 22:49:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] release notes Original commit message from CVS: release notes --- RELEASE | 179 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 92 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index 10d115f6c9..10acdc1e9d 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,100 +1,104 @@ - GStreamer "Desperately Seeking Sexiness" 0.4.0 released + GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1] The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the - GStreamer streaming-media framework. We are quickly moving forward at - this time and more and more applications using GStreamer are popping - up. Please see the [1]release page for availability of source and - binary packages. + GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused + on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of + GStreamer are API stable at this point. In preparation of a stable + release, we have also done a thorough license audit to make sure that + the licenses of all plug-ins are properly documented, and that as many + of them as possible are available under the LGPL license that + GStreamer uses. + + We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under + development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific + check out our [1]applications status page. Updates and Enhancements General - * Graphical pipeline editor (gst-editor) ported to GNOME 2.0 - * Autobuild system using [2]bitches to generate good RPMs - * Apt for rpm repository for GStreamer and plug-in dependencies on - RedHat 7.2 and 7.3, for both Ximian Red-Carpet Gnome 2 and - Gnomehide. See [3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/ - * Red-Carpet GStreamer channel under construction. - * GConf schemas distributed for centralised sink settings - * Moved to [4]http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ for bug reports. Bugzilla - is more convenient than SourceForge's system, and Gnome already - has a system running. Thanks to Gnome for the support. - * Created a gst-feedback script to gather system information to be - added to a bug report for better debugging. + * Further work on the Graphical Pipeline Editor, getting to be very + stable and well working. + * KDE/Qt bindings created for easier creation of KDE applications on + top of GStreamer + * General C++ bindings for use with gtkmm and other C++ projects + added to gst-bind module (in CVS) + * Effectv and virtualdub based plug-ins relicensed under LGPL + (previously GPL) + * Some manual examples updated and extracted to code (in + examples/manual) Core - * New much improved registry system implemented. - * New event-driven seek support. Event system is now working and - implemented - * Header files are now in a versioned directory to ease build pains. - * Improvements and bugfixes todparams. - * Docs updated, registry and system clock documentation added - * More tests added for improved troubleshooting - * Cothreads code made more POSIX-compatible - * PowerPC portability fixes + * Many memleaks plugged + * Lots of code cleaning + * Many documentation improvements + * Small change to [2]Plugin API + * Removed use of -Wall and -Werror from release tarball for non-gcc + compilers, more permanent solution upcoming. + * Old schedulers renamed: we now use basicomega as the default + scheduler, with the others being fastomega, basicwingo and + fastwingo. Plug-ins - * Quicktime plug-in rewritten - * [5]Effectv video effects plug-ins included - * Audio effect plug-ins fixes (int2float, floatcast etc.) - * A new filter plug-in for audio filters - * OSS plug-in fixes - * Audiofile plug-in works again (depends on upstream patch getting - included) - * lavencode plug-in renamed yuv4mpeg - * Synaesthesia plug-in added to gst-visualisation packages - * [6]Jack plug-in working and packaged -- CVS Jack required - * Floatcast plug-in added - * Include file setup fixes - * Avi plug-in ported to avifile 0.7.7 - * Lots of fixes and cleanups on the DV plug-in - * libfame plug-in added (mpeg4) - * libdvdnav plug-in added - * Better URI handling in gnome-vfs plug-in - * RTP plug-in updated and ported to the [7]oRTP library + * BSD and Darwin cd playing + * New Mixermatrix plugin added + * New Flash plugin added + * RTP plugin moved back to librtp and plugin now includes library + code (still experimental, check configure --help on how to enable) + * New v4l2 plugins + * Updated v4l plugins + * Improvements to dvdnav plugin + * iRadio support added to gnomevfs plugin + * Median video plugin updated and now working + * Fixed many major bugs in the gnome-vfs library + * Got rid of misleading warnings from plugins + * Avi muxer much improved + * Fix bug in mad plugin that caused loss of frames + * mp3 typefind fixed to properly handle id3v2 tags Known Issues - GStreamer currently ships with two schedulers, named 'basic' and - 'standard'. Basic is the one we have been shipping for a long time now - and is still the default in GStreamer 0.4.0. There are however some - limitations and threadrelated bugs in basic. These limitations are not - present in standard, but unfortunately standard does not work with - i686 glibc atm due to differences in the way threads are handled - compared to other architectures including i386. We hope to get the - remaining issues in standard fixed before 0.4.1 and use that as - default. + GStreamer currently ships with schedulers based on two cothread + packages. The 'omega' cothread package is the one we have been + shipping for a long time now and is still the default in this release. + There are however some limitations and thread-related bugs in the + omega scheduler. These limitations are not present in the 'wingo' + schedulers, but unfortunately it does not work with i686 glibc at this + time due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to + other architectures, including i386. A new (third) scheduler (that + doesn't use cothreads) is being developed. - As for the bugs in basic we did not feel they warranted not releasing - 0.4.0 as they are rather obscure. For instance if you are using - Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs nonstop to - trigger it. + As for the bugs in the 'omega' schedulers, we did not feel they + warranted not releasing 0.4.1 as they are rather obscure. For instance + if you are using Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs + nonstop to trigger it. You can choose a different scheduler by passing + --scheduler=(name) to any GStreamer application. - If you want to test the standard scheduler, run your GStreamer - application with --gst-scheduler=standard + Wim Taymans has started work on a new scheduler. The first part is + already in CVS, but it will probably still be some months before it is + ready. GStreamer Homepage More details on these features can be found on the project's website, - [8]http://gstreamer.net/. + [3]http://gstreamer.net/. -Support +Support and Bugs - We use [9]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The + We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The "product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following before writing a bug report : -gst-feedback > feedback 2>&1 +gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1 and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have some information useful in the debugging process. Developers - GStreamer is [10]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be + GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. 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 @@ -106,46 +110,47 @@ Developers Contributors to this release - Core + Patches to the core of Gstreamer - * Erik Walthinsen * Wim Taymans * Thomas Vander Stichele * Andy Wingo - * Benjamin Otte * Steve Baker + * Cameron Hutchison + * Iain Holmes + * Ronald Bultje Plugins and Sample Applications * Richard Boulton * David Lehn - * Ronald Bultje - * Bastien Nocera - * Martin Enlund - * Arik Devens * Jérémy Simon * Zeeshan Ali Khattak - * Rehan Khwaja - * Kentarou Fukuchi - * Artyom Baginski * David Schleef - * Xavier Bestel + * Charles Schmidt + * Goraxe + * Colin Walters + * Kristian Rietveld Misc - * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller - - * Calum Selkirk + * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller + * Tim Jansen + * Leif Morgan Johnson + * Christian Meyer + + [1] It is a little-known fact that the Beatles decided their track + listing for their albums based on a process called the 'GEP' process. + After some initial problems, this worked very well. The only known + failure of this process happened when George Harrison commited the + out-of-place 'Within You Without You' to Sergeant Pepper without + review by the other band members. This near split-up led to one of + their finest songs on the world-reknowned White Album. References - 1. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/ - 2. http://urgent.rug.ac.be/thomas/ - 3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/ + 1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2 + 2. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9557296/ + 3. http://gstreamer.net/ 4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ - 5. http://effectv.sourceforge.net/ - 6. http://jackit.sf.net/ - 7. http://www.linphone.org/ortp/ - 8. http://gstreamer.net/ - 9. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ - 10. http://gstreamer.sf.net/ + 5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/