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This is a CVS version. If you thought this was an actual release, you're
mistaken. Use it as such at your own risk. Loss of limbs and general
sanity are not covered by the GPL. Neither is anything else. You have
been warned !
GStreamer "30 Second Frenchman" 0.3.4 released
RELEASE NOTES
The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
GStreamer streaming-media framework.
Focus of this release
This release fixes a few developer usability issues.
A few of the API functions have been changed to offer better
functionality and to be more consistent with other toolkits (GLib,
GTK).
Sample changes:
* gst_elementfactory_make to gst_element_factory_make
* GST_PADTEMPLATE_* to GST_PAD_TEMPLATE_*
This release of GStreamer has been primarily made in support of
RhythmBox. It should really work with their upcoming 0.2.0 release.
The gst-launch parsing has been bisonified. This allows for better and
more consistent command-line parsing. Accordingly, some changes in the
dynamic pad treatment have been made as well.
The registry handling has been changed. gst-register will now write to
a local registry (in ~/.gstreamer/reg.xml) if it does not have
permissions to write to the global registry. Normal applications not
running as root will prefer this local registry if it exists, and fall
back to the global otherwise.
Also, a --gst-registry option has been added to all gst applications.
If this is specified, then the application will ONLY use this
registry. This is useful for testsuites inside the core as well as
general testing of plugins.
GStreamer is now in Gnome's Bugzilla. Please file bugs against us
there whenever you find them !
Changes in the 0.3.x tree
The 0.3.x tree is our first tree using GLib 2.0 and libxml2 as the
sole compile platform. We have also started including all our
documentation in our RPMS starting this tree. People wanting to build
GStreamer themselves with documentation should look at the DOCBUILDING
file for some information on what packages are needed to build that
successfully.
Another new feature of this release tree is the gst-launch-ext
command-line application. It uses predefined pipelines to play back
media files based on their file extension. This means that you don't
need to construct your own pipelines using gst-launch if all you want
to do is play a file. Just type gst-launch-ext [filename] and the
audiofile or movie plays for you. This of course also being a work in
progress means that sometimes it might decide on the wrong pipeline,
or cause jitter, as well as random headaches.
For help building GStreamer, take a look at our [1]build help document
.
Updates and Enhancements in this release
* Improved API naming
* New registry handling, allowing for global, local or specified
registry
* bison parser
* gst-launch-ext dynamic pad fixes
* various fixes in mad and vorbisdec for RhythmBox
Previously, in the 0.3.x tree
* devhelp documentation
* New and improved Props API
* New master clock system
* dxr3 plugin
* libcolorspace plugin
* Full dparams documentation
* All functions documented (551 functions documented)
* Python bindings
* Portability fixes (no more C++ // style comments)
* a52dec plugin updated to a52dec 0.7.3 API
* gnome-vfs plugin updated to new seek api
* Misc bug and caps fixes
* SPEC files improvements
More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
[2]http://gstreamer.net/. Source tarballs are also mirrored at
[3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/. If you use Red Hat (or
possibly other RPM-based systems), RPMs for both GStreamer itself,
external libraries and development tools not included in the standard
reference distribution (RedHat 7.2) can be found in
[4]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat.
GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge, so support requests and bugs may
be filed as usual. Interested developers of the core library, plugins,
and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If
there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary.
We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix
and True64 that would be willing to try building and testing
GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.
Contributors to this release
Core
* Erik Walthinsen <omega@temple-baptist.com>
* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@chello.be>
* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org>
* Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* Benjamin Otte <in7y118@public.uni-hamburg.de>
Plugins and Sample Applications
* Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org>
* David Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu>
* Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
* Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
* Martin Enlund <martin@enlund.net>
* Arik Devens <arik@gnome.org>
* Jérémy Simon <jsimon13@yahoo.fr>
* Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147@yahoo.com>
* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org@yahoo.co.uk>
* Rehan Khwaja <rehankhwaja@yahoo.com>
Misc
* Christian Schaller <christian.schaller@linuxrising.org>
* Calum Selkirk <cselkirk@panix.com>
References
1. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/buildhelp.php
2. http://gstreamer.net/
3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/
4. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat/