Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.20 "Here I Go Again" The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release in the 0.10.x stable series of the GStreamer Base Plug-ins. The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series. It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series. This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other plugins, and helper libraries. 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, gnomevfssrc network: tcp typefind audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume visualisation: libvisual video processing: ffmpegcolorspace aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin Other modules containing plug-ins are: gst-plugins-good contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license gst-plugins-ugly contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for distributors gst-plugins-bad contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect Features of this release * RTP improvements * Support digest auth for RTSP * Additional documentation * Support DSCP QoS in multifdsink * Add NV12/NV21 video buffer layouts * Video scaling now bilinear by default * Support more than 8 channels in audio conversions * Channel mapping fixes for audioconvert * Improve tmplayer and sami subtitle support * Support 1x1 pixel buffers for videoscale * Typefinding improvements for MPEG2, musepack * Ogg/Dirac mapping updated in oggmux * Fixes in ogg demuxing * audiosink synchronisation and slaving fixes * Support muting of the audio in playbin by selecting -1 as the audio stream * Work done on playbin2 and uridecodebin * Improvements in the experimental GIO plugin * decodebin fixes * Handle GAP buffers in some places * Various other leak and bug-fixes Bugs fixed in this release * 526794 : [giosrc] totem doesn't work with some gvfs backends * 510417 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] Move gio to gst-plugins-base * 509125 : crash in CD Player: - playing CD - lowering/... * 517813 : [audioconvert] make gap aware * 302798 : [playbin] add mute property * 342294 : Setting playbin property current-audio=-1 also stops the ... * 398033 : [audioconvert] support more than 8 channels * 419351 : [avi/a52dec] AV synchronization problems * 467911 : [subparse] sami parser update * 469933 : multifdsink IPv6 and diffserv TOS/TC markup * 506659 : [textoverlay] rendering error when using non-standard widths * 512333 : [gstvorbistag] Retrieve Ogg/Vorbis cover art as image met... * 512382 : [playbin] race condition when pausing/playing multiple in... * 518037 : pbutils-enumtypes.c is not included in win32/vs6/libgstpb... * 521761 : gstaudioclock frozen the clock value until reaches latest... * 522401 : gdpdepay doesn't validate payload CRCs * 523993 : playbin2 blocks after a while when listening to a radio s... * 524724 : [PATCH] [baseaudiosrc] buffer-time and latency-time do no... * 525665 : Crash on Ogg/Vorbis with chain=NULL * 525915 : [streamheader] Unit test fails with " gst_adapter_peek: as... * 526173 : [typefinding] fails to detect mpeg video stream whereas m... * 529018 : gst_ogm_parse_stream_header creates fraction value with w... * 529500 : [videotestsrc] support for NV12 and NV21 * 529546 : [Playbin] Memory leak in streaminfo handling * 530068 : Ogg Streams with Skeleton and Granulepos > 0 do not work(... * 530531 : [typefinding] bad read in mpeg_video_stream_type_find * 530719 : gst_video_calculate_display_ratio fails when playing Ogg ... * 530962 : [subparse] parses only every second line of TMPlayer subt... * 532454 : [NV12/NV21] videotestsrc and ffmpegcolorspace don't play ... * 533087 : GstRTSPTransport kept opaque in docs * 533817 : [audioconvert] Can't use default 7 channel layout / only ... * 534071 : Gdppay memleak * 534331 : race in decodebin when changing states while the internal... * 535356 : vorbisdec doesn't support 8 channels * 536475 : gdppay memleak and possible crash * 536521 : Refcounting errors in playbin * 536874 : Build failure on windows * 532166 : [ffmpegcolorspace] support NV12 format * 533617 : [audioconvert] Produces silence when converting 1/2 chann... * 536848 : [giosrc] Doesn't handle short reads properly * 536849 : [giosrc] Very slow doing any playback * 518082 : [alsamixer] playback volumes overwritten by capture volum... * 435633 : [PATCH] videorate not (fully) segment aware; causes frame... * 532364 : tcpclientsrc broken in 0.10.19 * 533075 : gst_rtp_buffer_compare_seqnum doesn't do what it says * 533265 : [cddabasesrc] Sound Juicer cut a sector when ripping a track API changed in this release - API additions: * decodebin2::sink-caps property * giosrc::file property * giosink::file property * gst_base_audio_src_set_slave_method() * gst_base_audio_src_get_slave_method() * GstAudioClock::gst_audio_clock_reset() * GstBaseAudioSrc:actual-buffer-time property * GstBaseAudioSrc:actual-latency-time property * gst_audio_check_channel_positions() * add gst_tag_image_data_to_image_buffer() * add gst_tag_list_add_id3_image() * add GST_TAG_IMAGE_TYPE_NONE enum value Download You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/ 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 Developers CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org. All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary. Applications Contributors to this release * Antoine Tremblay * Bernard B * Damien Lespiau * David Schleef * Edward Hervey * Felipe Contreras * Hannes Bistry * Henrik Eriksson * Jan Gerber * Jan Schmidt * John Millikin * Julien Moutte * Mark Nauwelaerts * Michael Smith * Ole André Vadla Ravnås * Peter Kjellerstedt * Sebastian Dröge * Sjoerd Simons * Stefan Kost * Thijs Vermeir * Tim-Philipp Müller * Victor STINNER * Wim Taymans * Wouter Cloetens * Young-Ho Cha