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Release notes for GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.8 "One For The Money"
        


The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
in the 0.10.x stable series of the GStreamer Good Plug-ins.


The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users,
parallel installable with the older 0.8.x series.



"Such ingratitude.  After all the times I've saved your life."


A collection of plug-ins you'd want to have right next to you on the
battlefield.  Shooting sharp and making no mistakes, these plug-ins have it
all: good looks, good code, and good licensing.  Documented and dressed up
in tests.  If you're looking for a role model to base your own plug-in on,
here it is.


If you find a plot hole or a badly lip-synced line of code in them,
let us know - it is a matter of honour for us to ensure Blondie doesn't look
like he's been walking 100 miles through the desert without water.


This module contains a set of plug-ins that we consider to have good quality
  code, correct functionality, our preferred license (LGPL for the plug-in
  code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library).
We believe distributors can safely ship these plug-ins.
People writing elements should base their code on these elements.


Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
gst-plugins-ugly
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
    distributors
gst-plugins-bad
contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
    rigorous quality testing we expect



  

Features of this release
    
      * The libsoup based http source moved from the -bad module and was raised to primary rank
      * GOOM visualisation plugin updated to Goom2k4
      * Fixes in UDP, RTSP, matroska, QT/mov, AVI, v4l2, OS/X, SunAudio, mulaw and wavpack
      * New gdkpixbuf output for snapshotting
      * Various other bug-fixes

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 516509 : gstid3v2mux.cc build failure on Solaris, CFLAGS not valid...
      * 515978 : [ladspa] Should be removed from -good until it's ready to...
      * 516649 : [v4l2src] tries to VIDIOC_S_PARM without checking capabil...
      * 517237 : [rtspsrc] Better error when bandwidth is too small
      * 517933 : [tests] trivial C89 fix
      * 518188 : [spectrum] " message " property documentation unclear
      * 518213 : [goom2k4] artefacts on x86-64
      * 518564 : goom dies with illegal instruction
      * 519088 : gst_mulawdec_chain() may call gst_util_uint64_scale_int()...
      * 519417 : Unable to modify DEFAULT_VIDEOSRC in configure
      * 520073 : [goom] (goom2k4) shows mostly black frames
      * 520764 : double buffer unref in speexenc error handling
      * 520880 : audiofx doesn't build on Windows/MSVC
      * 520888 : udpsrc has some issues on Windows
      * 521102 : h.263+ rtp depayloader crashes on short payloads
      * 521875 : [osssrc] recording corrupts upon _get_caps
      * 522278 : Problem with " movq " at file gst-plugins-good/gst/goom/xmmx.c
      * 522767 : [goom] does not build on ppc
      * 523124 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] move souphttpsrc from -bad to -good
      * 523134 : osxvideosink does not stop when you control-C
      * 524593 : [sunaudio] fix mixer track range
      * 525359 : [alaw] [mulaw] Use gst_pad_alloc_buffer_and_set_caps to c...
      * 525833 : [halaudiosrc] unable to get mic USB working with gnome-so...
      * 525860 : [sunaudio] copyright fixes
      * 525946 : [gdkpixbuf] add gdkpixbufsink element
      * 526557 : [matroskademux] seeking regression in CVS
      * 527848 : [souphttpsrc] Give souphttpsrc PRIMARY rank
      * 527984 : Doesn't dist all m4 files needed by configure.ac
      * 527999 : [goom] Doesn't dist goomsl.h
      * 528143 : [goom] fails to build on 32-bit ppc
      * 528615 : Hide goom2k4 logo
      * 529268 : [goom] States unit test exposes some memory leaks

Download

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

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

Developers

CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
will create more lists as necessary.

        
Applications
  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Andy Wingo
      * Bastien Nocera
      * Brian Cameron
      * Christian Schaller
      * Damien Lespiau
      * David Schleef
      * Edgard Lima
      * Edward Hervey
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Jens Granseuer
      * Julien Moutte
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Mersad Jelacic
      * Michael Smith
      * Ole André Vadla Ravnås
      * Olivier Crete
      * Peter Kjellerstedt
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Kost
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * William M. Brack
      * Wim Taymans