Release notes for GStreamer libav Plugins 1.5.90


The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate for the
stable 1.6 release series. The 1.6 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The final 1.6.0 release is planned
in the next few days unless any major bugs are found.


Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately by
the GStreamer project.



This module contains plugins based on the libav project, including codecs.



Other modules containing plugins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
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



  

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 566605 : Support the new libav metadata API
      * 721983 : Port to get_buffer2
      * 731286 : avauddec: Ensure input buffers have FF_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE padding
      * 731347 : libav: If codec sets channels to 0, gst_ffmpegauddec_get_buffer () crashes
      * 732682 : gst-libav not declaring support for mpc sv8
      * 750865 : avviddec: Crashing if resolution changes without corresponding input caps changes
      * 751607 : Reconsider decision to use libav or ffmpeg
      * 751838 : Compilation fails with ffmpeg h264_vda build
      * 752802 : avviddec: Sends incorrect CAPS event before the correct one
      * 753189 : avdec_h264: Broken image after resizing

==== Download ====

You can find source releases of gst-libav in the download
directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/

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

==== 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
    
      * Heinrich Fink
      * James Smith
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Nicolas Dufresne
      * Olivier Crete
      * Olivier Crête
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Sauer
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thomas Bluemel
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vineeth T M
      * Wim Taymans