gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.7.1


The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the unstable
1.7 release series. The 1.7 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.7 release series
will lead to the stable 1.8 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added
API can still change until that point.


Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
during the unstable 1.7 release series.



This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.

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, giosrc
  network: tcp
  typefind functions
  audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
  visualisation: libvisual
  video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
  high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
  libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video


Other modules containing plugins are:


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



  

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 681447 : video overlay composition: fix video blending over transparent frame
      * 705579 : Playbin prevents plugins requesting a GstContext to work properly
      * 726117 : typefinding: issue in MPEG-TS detection logic for streams with Null Pids
      * 726472 : rtpbasepayload: Implement video SDP attributes
      * 727970 : videorate: remove dead code
      * 730926 : tags: add GST_TAG_PRIVATE_DATA and expose ID3 private frame ( " PRIV " ) data
      * 731791 : videometa: add GstVideoAffineTransformationMeta
      * 738687 : midi: add alsamidisrc, an ALSA MIDI sequencer source
      * 749596 : rtsp-over-http authentication failure
      * 751470 : encodebin: Fix special case.
      * 752651 : decodebin: segfault on setting to NULL
      * 753852 : gstreamer: base: Fix memory leaks when context parse fails.
      * 754054 : videorate: remove unnecessary break statement
      * 754196 : audiodecoder-test: port to using GstHarness
      * 754223 : audioencoder-tests: port to use GstHarness
      * 754450 : audiotestsrc: remove frequency and channel number limit
      * 755260 : decodebin: Fix a race condition accessing the decode_chain field.
      * 755301 : audioconvert: Integer- > Float conversion creates values slightly smaller than -1.0
      * 755440 : gst-play: Add keyboard shortcut '0' to seek to beginning
      * 755482 : videotestsrc: Force alpha downstream if foreground color contains alpha
      * 756804 : playsink: text_sink dynamic reconnection is not working
      * 757008 : tests: typefindfunctions: Fix error leak
      * 757068 : audio{filter,convert,resample}: Clip input buffers to the segment before handling them
      * 757351 : audioconvert: Latest audioconvert outputs noise
      * 757480 : Use GST_STIME_FORMAT and GST_STIME_ARGS with GstClockTimeDiff
      * 757926 : pbutils:encoding-target: Fix string memory leak
      * 757927 : tests:video: Fix overlay rectangle and buffer leak
      * 757928 : audio-quantize: Fix dither_buffer memory leak
      * 758235 : rtspconnection: add support for parsing custom headers
      * 758744 : allocators: Add logging category for GstFdMemory
      * 758911 : audiobasesink/src: send latency message on setcaps
      * 758922 : rtspconnection should optionally make HTTP requests with abs_path instead of absoluteURI
      * 759126 : appsrc: issues with duration query handling
      * 759329 : convertframe: Support video crop when convert frame
      * 759356 : encodebin: Implement an encoding profile serialization format
      * 742875 : [API] new audiovisualizer base class
      * 758754 : oggdemux: failing to play an Opus sample file

==== Download ====

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

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

==== 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
    
      * Andreas Frisch
      * Antonio Ospite
      * Arnaud Vrac
      * Csaba Toth
      * Edward Hervey
      * Eunhae Choi
      * Evan Callaway
      * Guillaume Desmottes
      * Havard Graff
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Joan Pau Beltran
      * Julien Isorce
      * Kazunori Kobayashi
      * Koop Mast
      * Luis de Bethencourt
      * Mathieu Duponchelle
      * Matthew Waters
      * Michael Olbrich
      * Miguel París Díaz
      * Nicolas Dufresne
      * Nirbheek Chauhan
      * Ognyan Tonchev
      * Pankaj Darak
      * Pavel Bludov
      * Perry Hung
      * Philippe Normand
      * Rajat Verma
      * Ravi Kiran K N
      * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sebastian Rasmussen
      * Song Bing
      * Stefan Sauer
      * Stian Selnes
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thibault Saunier
      * Thomas Bluemel
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Vineeth T M
      * Vineeth TM
      * Vivia Nikolaidou
      * William Manley
      * Wim Taymans
      * Xavier Claessens
      * eunhae choi