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GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1]
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GStreamer "Starfleet" 0.5.1 released
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Send a message out accross the sky,
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Alien raiders just passed Gemini,
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Who will come and save us now?
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Who can defend us from their power?
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GStreamer! GStreamer! GStreamer!
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Tell the people back at Earth Control,
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Send GStreamer legions to save our souls,
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always daring and couragous,
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ooh! only they can save us.
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GStreamer! GStreamer! GStreamer!
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The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
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The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
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GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused
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GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused
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on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of
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on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of
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GStreamer are API stable at this point. In preparation of a stable
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GStreamer are API stable at this point.
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release, we have also done a thorough license audit to make sure that
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the licenses of all plug-ins are properly documented, and that as many
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This is a development release, in which we test several new features
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of them as possible are available under the LGPL license that
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and change installs and break stuff ! Do not update unless you are a
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GStreamer uses.
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developer or willing to deal with issues that will crop up. You have
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been warned ;)
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From now on, GStreamer will follow a versioning scheme similar to
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kernel and GTK+/GLib releases. Odd minor numbers (like for this
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release) will be development releases. While GStreamer itself is very
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much under development, during stable releases we will guarantee API-
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and ABI-stability. The point of this development release cycle is to
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support Gnome 2.1.x development.
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GStreamer major-minor series versions will now be
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parallel-installable. Please update your applications to check for
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gstreamer-0.5, gstreamer-libs-0.5 and gstreamer-play-0.5 using
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pkg-config.
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Our development currently focuses on the following items:
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* Increase stability and portability of scheduler
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* Add more video editing specific plugins
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* Improve plugins currently used by existing applications
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* Create language bindings
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We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
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We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
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development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
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development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
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General
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General
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* Further work on the Graphical Pipeline Editor, getting to be very
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* More Solaris Forte fixes
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stable and well working.
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* Updates to documentation
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* KDE/Qt bindings created for easier creation of KDE applications on
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top of GStreamer
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* General C++ bindings for use with gtkmm and other C++ projects
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added to gst-bind module (in CVS)
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* Effectv and virtualdub based plug-ins relicensed under LGPL
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(previously GPL)
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* Some manual examples updated and extracted to code (in
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examples/manual)
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Core
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Core
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* Many memleaks plugged
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* New non-cothread based scheduler
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* Lots of code cleaning
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* API change: s/GST_PAD_QUERY/GST_QUERY/g
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* Many documentation improvements
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* API change: s/GstPadQuery/GstQuery/g
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* Small change to [2]Plugin API
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* Removed use of -Wall and -Werror from release tarball for non-gcc
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compilers, more permanent solution upcoming.
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* Old schedulers renamed: we now use basicomega as the default
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scheduler, with the others being fastomega, basicwingo and
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fastwingo.
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Plug-ins
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Plug-ins
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* BSD and Darwin cd playing
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* New ffmpeg-based plugins supporting avi
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* New Mixermatrix plugin added
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* Improvements including PAL support for RAW1394 plugin
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* New Flash plugin added
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* lots of misc smaller fixes
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* RTP plugin moved back to librtp and plugin now includes library
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code (still experimental, check configure --help on how to enable)
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* New v4l2 plugins
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* Updated v4l plugins
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* Improvements to dvdnav plugin
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* iRadio support added to gnomevfs plugin
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* Median video plugin updated and now working
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* Fixed many major bugs in the gnome-vfs library
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* Got rid of misleading warnings from plugins
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* Avi muxer much improved
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* Fix bug in mad plugin that caused loss of frames
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* mp3 typefind fixed to properly handle id3v2 tags
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Known Issues
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GStreamer currently ships with schedulers based on two cothread
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packages. The 'omega' cothread package is the one we have been
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shipping for a long time now and is still the default in this release.
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There are however some limitations and thread-related bugs in the
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omega scheduler. These limitations are not present in the 'wingo'
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schedulers, but unfortunately it does not work with i686 glibc at this
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time due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to
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other architectures, including i386. A new (third) scheduler (that
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doesn't use cothreads) is being developed.
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As for the bugs in the 'omega' schedulers, we did not feel they
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warranted not releasing 0.4.1 as they are rather obscure. For instance
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if you are using Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs
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nonstop to trigger it. You can choose a different scheduler by passing
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--scheduler=(name) to any GStreamer application.
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Wim Taymans has started work on a new scheduler. The first part is
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already in CVS, but it will probably still be some months before it is
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ready.
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GStreamer Homepage
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GStreamer Homepage
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More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
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More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
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[3]http://gstreamer.net/.
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[2]http://gstreamer.net/.
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Support and Bugs
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Support and Bugs
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We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
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We use [3]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
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"product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following
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"product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following
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before writing a bug report :
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before writing a bug report :
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gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
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gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
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Developers
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Developers
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GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be
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GStreamer is [4]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be
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checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library,
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checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library,
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plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel
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plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel
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list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as
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list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as
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* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
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* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
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* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
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* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
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* Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com>
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* David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
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* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
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* David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
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* Cameron Hutchison <camh(AT)xdna.net>
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* Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
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* Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
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* Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
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Plugins and Sample Applications
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Plugins and Sample Applications
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* Richard Boulton <richard(AT)tartarus.org>
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* Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
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* David Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
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* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
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* Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
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* Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
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* Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
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* Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com>
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* Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)bigpond.net.au>
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* David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
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* Daniel Fischer <dan(AT)f3c.com>
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* Charles Schmidt <cbschmid(AT)users.sourceforge.net>
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* Goraxe <goraxe@ntlworld.com>
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* Colin Walters <walters(AT)gnu.org>
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* Kristian Rietveld <kris(AT)gtk.org>
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Misc
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Misc
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* Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
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* Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
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* Tim Jansen <tim.jansen(AT)kde.org>
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* Alp Toker <alp(AT)atoker.com>
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* Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
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* Christian Meyer <chrisime(AT)gnome.org>
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[1] It is a little-known fact that the Beatles decided their track
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listing for their albums based on a process called the 'GEP' process.
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After some initial problems, this worked very well. The only known
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failure of this process happened when George Harrison commited the
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out-of-place 'Within You Without You' to Sergeant Pepper without
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review by the other band members. This near split-up led to one of
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their finest songs on the world-reknowned White Album.
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References
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References
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1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
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1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
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2. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9557296/
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2. http://gstreamer.net/
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3. http://gstreamer.net/
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3. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
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4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
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4. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
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5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
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dnl when going to/from release please set the nano (fourth number) right !
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dnl when going to/from release please set the nano (fourth number) right !
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dnl releases only do Wall, cvs and prerelease does Werror too
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dnl releases only do Wall, cvs and prerelease does Werror too
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AS_VERSION(gstreamer, GST_VERSION, 0, 5, 0, 2, GST_ERROR="-Wall", GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror")
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AS_VERSION(gstreamer, GST_VERSION, 0, 5, 1, 0, GST_ERROR="-Wall", GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror")
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dnl AM_MAINTAINER_MODE only provides the option to configure to enable it
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dnl AM_MAINTAINER_MODE only provides the option to configure to enable it
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AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
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AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,$VERSION)
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