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GStreamer "30 Second Frenchman" 0.3.4 released
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RELEASE NOTES
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The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
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GStreamer streaming-media framework.
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Focus of this release
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This release fixes a few developer usability issues.
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A few of the API functions have been changed to offer better
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functionality and to be more consistent with other toolkits (GLib,
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GTK).
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Sample changes:
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* gst_elementfactory_make to gst_element_factory_make
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* GST_PADTEMPLATE_* to GST_PAD_TEMPLATE_*
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This release of GStreamer has been primarily made in support of
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RhythmBox. It should really work with their upcoming 0.2.0 release.
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The gst-launch parsing has been bisonified. This allows for better and
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more consistent command-line parsing. Accordingly, some changes in the
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dynamic pad treatment have been made as well.
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The registry handling has been changed. gst-register will now write to
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a local registry (in ~/.gstreamer/reg.xml) if it does not have
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permissions to write to the global registry. Normal applications not
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running as root will prefer this local registry if it exists, and fall
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back to the global otherwise.
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Also, a --gst-registry option has been added to all gst applications.
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If this is specified, then the application will ONLY use this
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registry. This is useful for testsuites inside the core as well as
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general testing of plugins.
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GStreamer is now in Gnome's Bugzilla. Please file bugs against us
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there whenever you find them !
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Changes in the 0.3.x tree
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The 0.3.x tree is our first tree using GLib 2.0 and libxml2 as the
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sole compile platform. We have also started including all our
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documentation in our RPMS starting this tree. People wanting to build
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GStreamer themselves with documentation should look at the DOCBUILDING
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file for some information on what packages are needed to build that
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successfully.
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Another new feature of this release tree is the gst-launch-ext
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command-line application. It uses predefined pipelines to play back
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media files based on their file extension. This means that you don't
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need to construct your own pipelines using gst-launch if all you want
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to do is play a file. Just type gst-launch-ext [filename] and the
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audiofile or movie plays for you. This of course also being a work in
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progress means that sometimes it might decide on the wrong pipeline,
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or cause jitter, as well as random headaches.
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For help building GStreamer, take a look at our [1]build help document
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.
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Updates and Enhancements in this release
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* Improved API naming
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* New registry handling, allowing for global, local or specified
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registry
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* bison parser
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* gst-launch-ext dynamic pad fixes
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* various fixes in mad and vorbisdec for RhythmBox
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Previously, in the 0.3.x tree
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* devhelp documentation
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* New and improved Props API
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* New master clock system
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* dxr3 plugin
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* libcolorspace plugin
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* Full dparams documentation
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* All functions documented (551 functions documented)
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* Python bindings
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* Portability fixes (no more C++ // style comments)
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* a52dec plugin updated to a52dec 0.7.3 API
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* gnome-vfs plugin updated to new seek api
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* Misc bug and caps fixes
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* SPEC files improvements
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More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
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[2]http://gstreamer.net/. Source tarballs are also mirrored at
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[3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/. If you use Red Hat (or
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possibly other RPM-based systems), RPMs for both GStreamer itself,
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external libraries and development tools not included in the standard
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reference distribution (RedHat 7.2) can be found in
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[4]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat.
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GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge, so support requests and bugs may
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be filed as usual. Interested developers of the core library, plugins,
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and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If
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there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary.
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We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix
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and True64 that would be willing to try building and testing
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GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.
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Contributors to this release
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Core
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* Erik Walthinsen <omega@temple-baptist.com>
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* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@chello.be>
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* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org>
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* Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
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* Benjamin Otte <in7y118@public.uni-hamburg.de>
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Plugins and Sample Applications
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* Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org>
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* David Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu>
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* Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
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* Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
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* Martin Enlund <martin@enlund.net>
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* Arik Devens <arik@gnome.org>
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* J<>r<EFBFBD>my Simon <jsimon13@yahoo.fr>
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* Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147@yahoo.com>
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* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org@yahoo.co.uk>
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* Rehan Khwaja <rehankhwaja@yahoo.com>
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Misc
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* Christian Schaller <christian.schaller@linuxrising.org>
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* Calum Selkirk <cselkirk@panix.com>
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References
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1. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/buildhelp.php
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2. http://gstreamer.net/
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3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/
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4. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat/
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