gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.3.90


The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of
the stable 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new features
on top of the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x
release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.


This release candidate will hopefully shortly be followed by the stable 1.4.0
release if no bigger regressions or bigger issues are detected, and enough
testing of the release candidate happened. The new API that was added during
the 1.3 release series is not expected to change anymore at this point.


Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided together with this
release.


The stable 1.4 release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x, 1.2.x and
any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.2.x it contains some
new features and more intrusive changes that were considered too risky as a
bugfix.



"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)



  

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 707282 : Memory leak in h264 codecparser
      * 723380 : codecparsers_h264: Add SEI recovery point message parsing.
      * 726026 : d3dvideosink: D3d surface not released when pipeline is set to GST_STATE_NULL
      * 727811 : opensslessrc: Does not work with autoaudiosrc
      * 731525 : multiple glimagesink elements aborts due to no XInitThreads.
      * 731692 : Fix include GL and GLES header check with clang.
      * 731783 : h265parse: incorrect value used to check size of hvcC data
      * 731878 : glvideomixer: Does not provide correct video resolution information when inputs are tiled
      * 731930 : modplug: don't hardcode c++ standard lib in Makefile.am
      * 732174 : curls?ftpsink: Fix memory leaks due to new error handling
      * 732178 : glcolorscale: add support for passthrough on same caps

==== 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
    
      * Aurélien Zanelli
      * Chris Bass
      * Edward Hervey
      * Eric Trousset
      * Gwenole Beauchesne
      * Julien Isorce
      * Koop Mast
      * Matthew Waters
      * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sebastian Rasmussen
      * Stefan Ringel
      * Thiago Santos
      * Tim-Philipp Müller