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Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.0.2


The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new 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.



"That an accusation?"


No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
showdown.


Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
You dig.


This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
rest.  They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
- be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
maintainer, or some actual wide use.  If the blanks are filled in they might be
upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
depending on the other factors.
If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
New contributors can start here for things to work on.


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-libav
contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)



  

Features of this release
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
      * audioparse: add mode where caps are taken from upstream and only timestamping is performed
      * directsoundsrc: port to 1.0
      * dtsdec: fix buffer parsing
      * fieldanalysis: actually build (remove from the NONPORTED plugins list)
      * hlsdemux: numerous thread-safety fixes, and an invalid memory access fix
      * mpegdemux: handle and combine downstream flow returns better
      * mpegdemux: make work properly with dvdreadsrc
      * mpegtsdemux: PES header parsing fixes; fix potential crash
      * mpegtsdemux: First push EOS, then destroy all programs
      * mpegtsmux: fix buffer refcounting issue
      * mpeg4videoparse: correctly parse the full first frame; properly mark config data presence
      * mpegvideoparse: correctly parse the full first frame; signal interlacing properly in caps
      * pitch: fix for start times > 0 (e.g. ogg streaming)
      * rtmpsink: handle RTMP_Write() return value correctly, fix memory leak
      * scaletempo: fix timestamp and latency query handling, and event leak
      * subenc: port to 1.0

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 623387 : mpegdemux: check base_time before calculating new_start
      * 673414 : directsoundsrc: Port to 1.0
      * 681459 : rtmpsink: memory leak
      * 685709 : mpeg4videoparse: AVI file with XVID video doesn't want to preroll: p_length.avi
      * 685895 : mpegvideoparse: signal interlacing correctly in caps using new " interlace-mode " field
      * 686009 : rtmpsink: handle RTMP_Write() return value correctly
      * 686294 : tsdemux: Fix checking P-STD_buffer marker in PES header
      * 686327 : mpegtsmux: fix refcount issue with input buffers
      * 686358 : tsdemux: fix potential crash dereferencing NULL program pointer
      * 686520 : wayland: update to wayland-protocol 0.99
      * 686547 : rtpopuspay outputs unparseable caps
      * 686595 : [mpg123] misc improvements and fixes
      * 686774 : gst-plugins-bad/curl: add a comment describing function...

==== Download ====

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

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

==== 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
    
      * Andoni Morales Alastruey
      * Carlos Rafael Giani
      * David Régade
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Josep Torra
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Michael Smith
      * Raimo Järvi
      * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sebastian Rasmussen
      * Sergey N. Gorshkov
      * Sreerenj Balachandran
      * Thijs Vermeir
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Wim Taymans