gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.32 "Your Life You Like It Well"
        


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.



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, giosrc
  network: tcp
  typefind functions
  audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
  visualisation: libvisual
  video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
  aggregate elements: uridecodebin, playbin2, decodebin2, decodebin, playbin, encodebin
  libraries: app, audio, cdda, fft, interfaces, netbuffer, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video


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
    
      * GLib requirement is now >= 2.22, gobject-introspection >= 0.9.12
      * New encodebin element
      * New encoding profile and encoding targets API in pbutils
      * audioresample: corrected buffer duration calculation to account for nonzero initial timestamp
      * audioresample: provide as much valid output ts and offset as valid input
      * audioresample: push half a history length, instead of a full history length, at end-of-stream so that output segment and input segment have same duration
      * decodebin2: deprecate new-decoded-pad and removed-decoded-pad signals (use "pad-added" and "pad-removed" instead)
      * multifdsink: add first and last buffer's timestamp to the stats; only keep last valid timestamp
      * oggdemux: extract more tags (vorbis comment headers, Kate)
      * oggdemux: ignore header pages when looking for keyframe; set headers on caps
      * oggdemux: fix interpretation of Theora granule position and parsing of Theora size
      * oggparse: Set DELTA_UNIT on buffers
      * playbin2: delay stream-changed messages, fixing KATE subtitle recognition
      * textoverlay: make text, xpos, ypos, color, and silent properties controllable
      * typefinding: (E)AC-3 and ISO typefinder improvements; add yuv4mpeg typefinder
      * typefinding: add "stream-format" to h264 caps, and framed=false to DTS caps
      * typefinding: assume EBML files without doctype are matroska
      * videorate: fix behaviour for frame rate cap changes
      * vorbisdec: avoid using invalid timestamps; keep timestamps when no decoded output
      * ximagesink, xvimagesink: add read-only window-width and window-height properties
      * baseaudiopay: fix timestamps on buffer lists
      * baseaudiosink: protect against ringbuffer disappearing while in a query
      * basedepay: add support for buffer lists in the depayloader
      * basertppay: use RTP base time when invalid timestamps
      * rtpbuffer: relax arrangement for RTP bufferlists
      * rtpdepayloader: add support for getting events
      * rtppayload: copy applied rate to segment
      * sdp: add method to check for multicast addresses
      * sdp: only parse TTL for IP4 addresses
      * video: add 8-bit paletted RGB, YUV9, YVU9 and IYU1 video formats
      * video: return correct component width/height for A420

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 619778 : oggdemux: fails on zero-length pages with Patent_Absurdity_HD_3540kbit.ogv
      * 586570 : Add GAP Flag support to audioresample
      * 623413 : pbutils: Add/Fix some media descriptions
      * 627476 : New profile library and encoding plugin
      * 629349 : [oggdemux] extract stream tags for tagreadbin and transcoding
      * 632667 : [ximagesink] added read-only properties window-width and window-height
      * 634397 : [multifdsink] [PATCH] Add the timestamp of the first and last buffer to the stats
      * 634522 : gst-visualize-m.m imports but doesn't use File::Basename
      * 635231 : baseaudiosink: protect against ringbuffer disappearing while in a query
      * 636198 : decodebin2: " removed-decoded-pad " signal never fired
      * 636769 : [appsink] Flushing property is never reset
      * 636827 : Usage of gst_caps_interset where gst_caps_can_intersect was intended?
      * 637324 : oggdemux: unable to demux Ogg files with Skeleton in push mode
      * 637377 : timeoverlay: add missing break
      * 637519 : ogg: implement packet duration query for kate streams
      * 637586 : playbin2 fails to recognize subtitle caps from katedec
      * 637735 : [encoding-profile] automatic load/save support and registry
      * 637758 : [exiftag] Generates buffers with uninitialized data during taglist- > exif buffer serialization
      * 637822 : oggdemux: allocate buffers using gst_buffer_new_and_alloc
      * 637927 : oggdemux: set headers on caps
      * 638200 : [oggdemux] fails to playback video file
      * 638276 : oggstream: when the last keyframe position is not known, do not use -1
      * 638859 : textoverlay: make misc. properties controllable
      * 638901 : [encodebin] proper element documentation
      * 638903 : [encodebin] missing-plugin support
      * 638961 : Small configure bashism 0.10.31.2
      * 639039 : gobject-introspection: GstPbutils gir scanner fails to link with gold linker
      * 639121 : oggdemux: outdated comment for gst_ogg_demux_submit_buffer()
      * 639215 : examples: Allow building with newer GTK+
      * 639730 : discoverer: Validate timeouts before processing them
      * 639755 : discoverer: Clean up callbacks in dispose()
      * 639778 : discoverer: Drop new stream tags once preroll is done
      * 639790 : [gdp] Fix metadata g_warning
      * 639747 : Please export GST_TYPE_APP_STREAM_TYPE
      * 553244 : theoraparse doesn't work at all (throws criticals and asserts)

API changed in this release
     
- API additions:
    
      * gst_app_stream_type_get_type()
      * gst_discoverer_info_get_seekable()
      * gst_encoding_audio_profile_get_type()
      * gst_encoding_audio_profile_new()
      * gst_encoding_container_profile_add_profile()
      * gst_encoding_container_profile_contains_profile()
      * gst_encoding_container_profile_get_profiles()
      * gst_encoding_container_profile_get_type()
      * gst_encoding_container_profile_new()
      * gst_encoding_list_all_targets()
      * gst_encoding_list_available_categories()
      * gst_encoding_profile_find()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_description()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_format()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_input_caps()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_name()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_presence()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_preset()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_restriction()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_type()
      * gst_encoding_profile_get_type_nick()
      * gst_encoding_profile_is_equal()
      * gst_encoding_profile_set_description()
      * gst_encoding_profile_set_format()
      * gst_encoding_profile_set_name()
      * gst_encoding_profile_set_presence()
      * gst_encoding_profile_set_preset()
      * gst_encoding_profile_set_restriction()
      * gst_encoding_target_add_profile()
      * gst_encoding_target_get_category()
      * gst_encoding_target_get_description()
      * gst_encoding_target_get_name()
      * gst_encoding_target_get_profile()
      * gst_encoding_target_get_profiles()
      * gst_encoding_target_get_type()
      * gst_encoding_target_load()
      * gst_encoding_target_load_from_file()
      * gst_encoding_target_new()
      * gst_encoding_target_save()
      * gst_encoding_target_save_to_file()
      * gst_encoding_video_profile_get_pass()
      * gst_encoding_video_profile_get_type()
      * gst_encoding_video_profile_get_variableframerate()
      * gst_encoding_video_profile_new()
      * gst_encoding_video_profile_set_pass()
      * gst_encoding_video_profile_set_variableframerate()
      * gst_base_rtp_depayload_push_list()
      * gst_rtsp_url_decode_path_components()
      * gst_sdp_address_is_multicast()
      * gst_video_parse_caps_palette()

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.

        
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Contributors to this release
    
      * Alessandro Decina
      * Andoni Morales Alastruey
      * Andrea Sebastianutti
      * Andy Wingo
      * Arun Raghavan
      * Bastien Nocera
      * Benjamin Gaignard
      * Byeong-ryeol Kim
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Evan Broder
      * Gavin Stark
      * Havard Graff
      * Koop Mast
      * Lane Brooks
      * Leo Singer
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Michael Smith
      * René Stadler
      * Rob Clark
      * Robert Swain
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sreerenj Balachandran
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thiago Santos
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Wim Taymans
      * Yang Xichuan
      * Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
      * christian schaller