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Tim-Philipp Müller 9e167f6f91 Release 1.0.0
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Release notes for GStreamer 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.
=== Modules
This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
For actual media playback, you will also need other modules:
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-ugly : a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems
for distributors
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
Alexander Saprykin
Andoni Morales Alastruey
Andreas Frisch
Andre Moreira Magalhaes (andrunko)
Antoine Tremblay
Anton Belka
Arnaud Vrac
Bastian Winkler
Bastien Nocera
Brian Cameron
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Christophe Fergeau
Chun-wei Fan
Colin Walters
David Schleef
David Svensson Fors
Edward Hervey
Evan Nemerson
Fabrizio (Misto) Milo
Havard Graff
Idar Tollefsen
Jan Schmidt
Jason DeRose
Jens Georg
João Paulo Pizani Flor
Johan Boulé
Johan Dahlin
Josep Torra
Joshua M. Doe
Koop Mast
Lionel Landwerlin
Luis de Bethencourt
Mark Nauwelaerts
Matej Knopp
Miguel Angel Cabrera Moya
Mike Ruprecht
Oleksij Rempel
Olivier Crête
Peteris Krisjanis
Philippe Normand
Raimo Järvi
René Stadler
Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
Ryan Lortie
Sebastian Dröge
Sebastian Rasmussen
Sjoerd Simons
Sreerenj Balachandran
Stefan Kost
Stefan Sauer
Thiago Santos
Thibault Saunier
Thomas Vander Stichele
Tim-Philipp Müller
Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
Vincent Penquerc'h
Wim Taymans
Youness Alaoui
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