gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.25 "Standard disclaimers apply"
        


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


The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.



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, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
  containers: ogg
  codecs: vorbis, theora
  text: textoverlay, subparse
  sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc
  network: tcp
  typefind
  audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume
  visualisation: libvisual
  video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
  aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin


Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
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
    
      * Add per-stream volume controls
      * Theora 1.0 and Y444 and Y42B format support
      * Improve audio capture timing
      * GObject introspection support
      * Improve audio output startup
      * RTSP improvements
      * Use pango-cairo instead of pangoft2
      * Allow cdda://(device#)?track URI scheme in cddabasesrc
      * Support interlaced content in videoscale and ffmpegcolorspacee
      * Many other bug fixes and improvements

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 595401 : gobject assertion and null access to volume instance in playbin
      * 563828 : [decodebin2] Complains about loops in the graph when demuxer output requires another demuxer
      * 591677 : Easy codec installation is not working
      * 588523 : smarter sink selection in playbin2
      * 590146 : adder regressions
      * 321532 : [cddabasesrc] Support device setting in cdda:// URI
      * 340887 : add pangocairo textoverlay plugin.
      * 397419 : [oggdemux] ogm video with subtitles stuck on first frame
      * 556537 : [PATCH] typefind: more flexible MPEG4 start code recognition
      * 559049 : gstcheck.c:76:F:general:test_state_changes_* failure: GST_IS_CLOCK(clock) assertion fails
      * 567660 : [API] need a stream volume interface for sinks that do volume control
      * 567928 : Make videorate work with a live source
      * 571610 : [playbin] Scale of volume property is not documented
      * 583255 : [playbin2] deadlock when disabling visualisations
      * 586180 : RTSP improvements
      * 588717 : [oggmux] gst_caps_unref() warning if not linked downstream
      * 588761 : [videoscale] Needs special support for interlaced content
      * 588915 : audioresample's output offset counter's initialization could maybe be improved
      * 589095 : [appsrc] clarify documentation on caps and linkage
      * 589574 : [typefind] incorrect sdp file detection
      * 590243 : [videoscale] Claims to support MAX width/height
      * 590425 : Slaved alsasrc clock with slave-method=re-timestamp not usable for RTP audio
      * 590856 : [decodebin2] triggers assertion failure on NULL caps
      * 591207 : totem does display the following subtitle srt file.
      * 591357 : gst-plugins-base git won't build due to warning in gstrtspconnection.c
      * 591577 : [playbin2] Incorrect error message string
      * 591664 : [playbin2] after seeking, srt subtitles don't resync correctly
      * 591934 : timestamp drift in audioresample
      * 592544 : Remove regex.h check
      * 592657 : [appsink] Blocks after entering on pause state
      * 592864 : deadlocks from recent inputselector/streamselector change
      * 592884 : [playbin2] g_object_get increases refcount by 2 and therefore leaves memleak
      * 593035 : gdp doesn't preserve fields of the buffers put into the caps' streamheader
      * 593284 : basertppayloader takes time in instance init
      * 594020 : Totem don't play videos from ssh remote host
      * 594094 : Playback Error playing Midi file
      * 594136 : [alsasink] Regression from 0.10.23 -- element reuse doesn't work
      * 594165 : [theoraenc] Implement support for new formats
      * 594256 : improved slave-skew resynch mechanism
      * 594258 : missing break in rtcpbuffer
      * 594275 : Add cast to navigation to fix compiler warning
      * 594623 : Expose playsink as a fully-fledged element
      * 594732 : parse error
      * 594757 : build fails due to warning in gstbasertppayload.c
      * 594993 : [introspection] pkg-config file madness
      * 594994 : [streamvolume] Add get_type function to the documentation
      * 595454 : [cddabasesrc] uri format change breaks rhythmbox
      * 545807 : [baseaudiosink] audible crack when starting the pipeline

API changed in this release
     
- API additions:
    
* gst_rtsp_connection_create_from_fd()
* gst_rtsp_connection_set_http_mode()
* gst_rtsp_watch_write_data()
* gst_rtsp_watch_send_message()
* GstBaseRTPPayload::perfect-rtptime
* GstBaseRTPAudioPayload::gst_base_rtp_audio_payload_flush()
* GstVideoSinkClass::show_frame()
* GstVideoSink:show-preroll-frame
* GST_MIXER_TRACK_READONLY
* GST_MIXER_TRACK_WRITEONLY
* GstStreamVolume interface

Download

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

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

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned 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
    
      * Arnout Vandecappelle
      * Benjamin Gaignard
      * Benjamin Otte
      * Christian F.K. Schaller
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Eero Nurkkala
      * Havard Graff
      * Håvard Graff
      * Jan Schmidt
      * John Millikin
      * Jonas Holmberg
      * Jonathan Matthew
      * Josep Torra
      * Kipp Cannon
      * Marc-André Lureau
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Mart Raudsepp
      * Michael Smith
      * Olivier Crête
      * Peter Kjellerstedt
      * Philip Jägenstedt
      * René Stadler
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Siarhei Siamashka
      * Stefan Kost
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Wim Taymans
      * Young-Ho Cha
      * Руслан Ижбулатов