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Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 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 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, 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
aggregate elements: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin
libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
Other modules containing plugins are:
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
Akihiro Tsukada
Alban Browaeys
Alessandro Decina
Andoni Morales Alastruey
Andreas Frisch
Andre Moreira Magalhaes (andrunko)
Andy Wingo
Anssi Hannula
Anton Belka
Arnaud Vrac
Arun Raghavan
Bastien Nocera
Benjamin Gaignard
Benjamin Otte
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Christian Schaller
Damien Lespiau
David Schleef
David Svensson Fors
Debarshi Ray
Edward Hervey
Evan Nemerson
George Kiagiadakis
Havard Graff
Holger Kaelberer
Idar Tollefsen
Jan Schmidt
Jason DeRose
Javier Jardón
Jens Georg
Johan Dahlin
Jonathan Lyons
Jonathan Matthew
Josep Torra
Julian Scheel
Marc Leeman
Mark Nauwelaerts
Matej Knopp
Michael Smith
Miguel Angel Cabrera Moya
Nicolas Dufresne
Ognyan Tonchev
Oleksij Rempel (Alexey Fisher)
Olivier Aubert
Olivier Crête
Pascal Buhler
Peter Korsgaard
Philip Flarsheim
Philippe Normand
Pontus Oldberg
Raimo Järvi
René Stadler
Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
Robert Swain
Ronald S. Bultje
Ryan Lortie
Sebastian Dröge
Sebastian Rasmussen
Sreerenj Balachandran
Stefan Kost
Stefan Sauer
Stéphane Loeuillet
Steve Lhomme
Thiago Santos
Thibault Saunier
Thomas Vander Stichele
Tim-Philipp Müller
Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
Vincent Penquerc'h
Vincent Untz
Vivia Nikolaidou
Wim Taymans
Youness Alaoui
Zaheer Abbas Merali
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