Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.7.2

The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
1.7 release series. The 1.7 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.7 release series
will lead to the stable 1.8 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added
API can still change until that point.


Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
during the unstable 1.7 release series.


This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.

This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments.  Element
writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
their development.

This module contains elements for, among others:

  device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
  containers: ogg
  codecs: vorbis, theora
  text: textoverlay, subparse
  sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
  network: tcp
  typefind functions
  audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
  visualisation: libvisual
  video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
  high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
  libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video


Other modules containing plugins are:


gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
    distributors
gst-plugins-bad
contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
    rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
    and/or unit tests
gst-libav
contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)



  

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 745880 : sdp: SDP < - > GstCaps helper functions
      * 751901 : gst-play: verbose & playbin flags options support
      * 755918 : decodebin: Refactor code to remove assertion errors
      * 756187 : appsink: Always blocks on EOS until buffers are consumed since 1.6, should be configurable
      * 758212 : playbin adds the template caps on autoplug-query
      * 759729 : audiofxbad: Name collision with new GstAudioChannelMix API from libgstaudio
      * 759855 : build: pbutils needs to link to libgstbase for bytewriter and adapter
      * 759890 : audioconvert: creates choppy audio
      * 760134 : audioconvert test: doesn't build with clang
      * 760204 : videotestsrc: add missing break in set_property switch case
      * 760234 : playbin: Assumes recursive accept-caps query, breaks totem
      * 760408 : #750013 (streamsynchronizer patches) broke some use cases in GES
      * 760477 : playbin: caps intersection autoplugs too early and stream stops
      * 760769 : tests:audioconvert: Build error when running make check
      * 760938 : audioconvert: crash when executing orc unpack function
      * 760949 : decodebin: Correctly expose pads from elements that have directly exposable pads
      * 761132 : video-format: fix GstVideoFormatInfo documentation warnings
      * 761218 : audio/videodecoder: Use gst_pad_peer_query_caps() instead of using gst_pad_get_allowed_caps() to make negotiated output caps before forwarding GAP event
      * 761251 : textoverlay: Expose text rendering dimensions to applications and remove absolute positioning limit
      * 761949 : gst-libs/gst/Makefile.am: build audio before rtp
      * 761951 : videoencoder: Fix leak when pre_push does not return OK
      * 762085 : gst-base 1.7 update created background buzzing noise with audioconvert
      * 762239 : matroskademux: Assertions about unmappable memory when demuxing wavpack streams
      * 693263 : typefinding: MPEG-2 video ES detected as H.263

==== Download ====

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

The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/

==== Homepage ====

The project's website is https://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

Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.

For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).

There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.

==== Developers ====

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
from there (see link above).

Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.

        
Contributors to this release
    
      * Arun Raghavan
      * Aurélien Zanelli
      * Edward Hervey
      * Evan Callaway
      * Havard Graff
      * HoonHee Lee
      * Hugues Fruchet
      * Hyunjun Ko
      * Julien Isorce
      * Koop Mast
      * Lubosz Sarnecki
      * Mathieu Duponchelle
      * Nirbheek Chauhan
      * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Sauer
      * Stian Selnes
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thibault Saunier
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vineeth T M
      * Vineeth TM
      * Wim Taymans