Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.2.0 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new feature release in the 1.x stable series of the core of the GStreamer streaming media framework. The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series. It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation. 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 * 708667 : rtspconnection: leaks file descriptors/child sources * 708372 : dmabuf: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory * 708590 : adder: Should send its segment before checking for eos * 708606 : video-frame: offsets are not copied from metadata ==== Download ==== You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory: http://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 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 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 * Edward Hervey * Mathieu Duponchelle * Ognyan Tonchev * Sebastian Dröge * Tim-Philipp Müller * Wim Taymans