Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plugins 1.0.0 The GStreamer project is pleased to announce the very first release of the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed in parallel with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation. Major improvements include: more flexible memory handling; extensible and negotiable metadata for buffers; caps negotiation and renegotiation mechanisms, decoupled from buffer allocation; improved caps renegotiation; automatic re-sending of state for dynamic pipelines; reworked and more fine-grained pad probing; simpler and more descriptive audio and video caps; more efficient allocation of buffers, events and other mini objects; improved timestamp handling; support for gobject-inspection-based language bindings; countless other improvements. Most of these changes involve the GStreamer plugin API. The application API has changed comparatively little, and most applications should be fairly easy to port to the new API. There is a porting guide available. The GStreamer team would like to thank everyone who helped bring this release about, whether by submitting patches, reporting bugs, testing, sponsoring development, attending hackfests, or simply supplying moral support. This is the end of a long development process, but also the beginning of one. This release does not mark the pinnacle of perfection, but the point where the team is content with the API and stability and quality of the code base in general, especially compared to the old 0.10 series. There will be bugs to fix, and starting from this release there will be distinct bug-fixing and feature development cycles, with the goal of getting bug-fixes out quicker and unencumbered by other more risky changes. See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReleasePlanning/RoadMap for a tentative road map and possible schedule. === Module "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." There are times when the world needs a color between black and white. Quality code to match the good's, but two-timing, backstabbing and ready to sell your freedom down the river. These plugins might have a patent noose around their neck, or a lock-up license, or any other problem that makes you think twice about shipping them. We don't call them ugly because we like them less. Does a mother love her son less because he's not as pretty as the other ones ? No - she commends him on his great personality. These plugins are the life of the party. And we'll still step in and set them straight if you report any unacceptable behaviour - because there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: those with a rope around their neck and the people who do the cutting. This module contains a set of plugins that have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plugins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems. Distributors should check if they want/can ship these plugins. Other modules containing plugins are: gst-plugins-base : a basic set of well-supported plugins gst-plugins-good : a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license gst-plugins-bad : a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect gst-libav : a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg) ==== Download You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ ==== 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 or http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bugs/ ==== Developers GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list and/or pop into our #gstreamer IRC channel on Freenode. ==== Contributors to this release Alban Browaeys Alessandro Decina Bastien Nocera Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller David Schleef Edward Hervey Jan Schmidt Julien Isorce Leon Merten Lohse Mark Nauwelaerts Matej Knopp Nicolas Dufresne Olivier Crête René Stadler Robert Swain Sebastian Dröge Sreerenj Balachandran Stefan Sauer Thiago Santos Thomas Vander Stichele Tim-Philipp Müller Vincent Penquerc'h Wim Taymans Руслан Ижбулатов