gstreamer/RELEASE

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.4 "Power"
        


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
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * (Experimental) QoS support
      * oggmuxer now creates 100% valid streams for Theora, Vorbis and Speex
      * documentation updates
      * better support for subtitles (seeking)

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 310202 : [subtitles] < i >  < /i > tags and others should be supported i...
      * 312439 : XVideo output doesn't work on remote displays (probably r...
      * 321271 : audio output is truncated at EOS
      * 321650 : Can't decode this ogm file
      * 325732 : [oggdemux] problem when seeking to time less than 4s with...
      * 325972 : [typefinding] doesn't recognise this mp3
      * 326720 : [alsasink] doesn't support more than 2 channels anymore
      * 330711 : [ffmpegcolorspace] problems with palettized RGB (fencount...
      * 330789 : gstbaseaudiosink causes noise on seeking
      * 330888 : Fix build with gcc 2.95 (again)
      * 331295 : gnomevfssink doesn't respect umask when creating files
      * 331526 : 3GP type detection is too simple
      * 331678 : Decodebin is not reusable within a single pipeline (as in...
      * 331690 : playbin won't play my last.fm stream
      * 331763 : [alsamixer] unmute sets the volume to 100%
      * 331765 : [alsamixer] mixer applet slider doesn't want to move from...
      * 331903 : [videorate] doesnt handle input caps of framerate=0/1 sanely
      * 332778 : [ogmparse] " Already an existing pad " WARNING
      * 332964 : random crashes in mp3_type_find
      * 333254 : theora encoder does not set IN_CAPS flag properly
      * 333352 : [gnomevfssink] reports disk full as generic error
      * 333488 : Allow for palette < 256 colours in AVI files
      * 333510 : [PATCH] Fix gst_pad_new_from_template (gst_static_pad_tem...
      * 333545 : [riff] set depth on wma caps to make asfdemux and pitfdll...
      * 333663 : [patch] unref the result of gst_pad_get_parent
      * 333900 : [typefind] cannot play a particular mp3 file
      * 334112 : variable not initialized
      * 334129 : Disable frame dropping for now
      * 317038 : use default channel layout if none is specified in multic...
      * 319340 : [cdparanoia] uncorrected-error signal never fired

API changed in this release
     

- API additions:
    
* GstTextOverlay::halignment
* GstTextOverlay::valignment

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

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
      * Christophe Fergeau
      * Edward Hervey
      * Fabrizio Gennari
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Julien MOUTTE
      * Mathieu Garcia
      * Michael Smith
      * Sebastien Moutte
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Tommi Myöhänen
      * Wim Taymans