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Jan Schmidt b8af9e3097 configure.ac: releasing 0.10.9, "I walk the line"
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2006-07-13  Jan Schmidt <thaytan@mad.scientist.com>

* configure.ac:
releasing 0.10.9, "I walk the line"
2006-07-14 15:51:24 +00:00

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This is GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.9, "I walk the line"
Changes since 0.10.8:
* Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
* Threadsafe design and API
* Subtitle fixes
* Support for images in tags
* Playback improvements
* Gnomevfssrc now supports burn:// uris
* Videoscale now supports more RGBA formats
* Multifdsink improvements
* Testsuite can now generate coverage information
Bugs fixed since 0.10.8:
* 347296 : Problems with clocks on alsasrc hangs the application
* 347295 : [vorbisdec] Pushes before being initialized
* 329798 : [playbin] doesn't always give correct error message for m...
* 342085 : [alsasink] doesn't set buffer-time correctly
* 342789 : [audioresample] doesn't clear state when stopped, causing...
* 343303 : [subparse] workaround for bad entities in sami parser
* 343385 : [gnomevfs] add support for burn:// URIs
* 343500 : [riff] gst_riff_parse_strf_vids() can't parse extra data.
* 343699 : oggmux leaks
* 344503 : [subparse] parse font face property in sami parser.
* 345131 : [PATCH] videoscale support for 32-bit RGB-formats
* 345206 : [textoverlay] crash with non-UTF8 input
* 345225 : [theoradec] Clipping for exact seeking
* 345641 : [API] [libgsttag] add enums for image tag type
* 345879 : [riff] won't play a .wmv file with WMVA video stream
* 346581 : [typefinding] recognise text/html
* 347221 : [audioconvert] channel remapping does not work right
* 347304 : Massive leaks with xvimagesink
* 346527 : alsasrc get_range does not respect requested size
Changes since 0.10.7:
* alsasink probing fixes
* xvimagesink error reporting fixes
* subtitle fixes
* adder fixes
* vorbis multichannel fixes
* multifdsink streamheader fixes
Bugs fixed since 0.10.7:
* 169936 : [subparse] support for SAMI subtitles
* 315312 : Gstreamer Xv uses RGB instead of YUV.
* 334002 : video4linux shouldn't depend on X in configure script
* 336881 : [libvisual] additional support for libvisual-0.4
* 337544 : [xvimagesink] Internal Error when image is too large
* 339520 : [subparse] add " encoding " property
* 340909 : [alsasink] can't enable spdif output
* 341542 : some users have an assertion failed: (GST_VIDEO_SINK_WIDT...
* 341562 : audioconvert doesn't list formats in order of preference
* 341696 : audioconvert crashes if converting from a format with no ...
* 341719 : bisection algorithm in ogg doesn't bisect in some cases
* 341732 : [alsasink] doesn't query supported sample rates
* 341873 : [alsasink] minor memory leak, uses unprotected static var...
* 342143 : [subparse] sami parser needs to escape characters
* 342181 : [alsa] add property probe interface to alsasink and alsasrc
* 342268 : [playbin] add 'subtitle-encoding' property
* 342345 : [riff] Elephant's Dream AVI does not play, JUNK chunk bef...
* 342566 : Building without GTK+ fails
* 343397 : H.264/AAC movie deadlocks with totem in gstreamer code, p...
* 339935 : [adder] dead-locks when adding sink pads in PAUSED state
Changes since 0.10.6:
* typefind improvements
* bug-fixes in textoverlay, audioconvert, videotestsrc,
multifdsink and audio source/sink base classes
* Ice-cast metadata support has moved from gnomevfssrc to the
icydemux element in gst-plugins-good
* audioresample now supports floating point samples
* Adder element fixes.
* Fixes for network playback and audio resampling in playbin
Bugs fixed since 0.10.6:
* 340060 : [adder] handle newsegment events properly
* 340375 : [API 0.11] [patch] typefind to differentiate between mp4 ...
* 339405 : [textoverlay] can't display '\n' character
* 338657 : [patch] adder should send events from src-pad to all sink...
* 338919 : [patch] alsasink should also query witdh capabilities fro...
* 301759 : [audioresample] float audio support (for OSX audio sinks)
* 331901 : [videotestsrc] framerate=0/1 gives assertion error
* 333657 : Replacing icy demuxing in gnomevfssrc
* 336339 : [audioresample] should support width != 16
* 338718 : [patch] [audioconvert] correctly clip float samples > 1.0
* 338778 : [patch] Bad audio with ASX files
* 338991 : [patch] Videoscale doesn't pass on pixel-aspect ratio
* 339574 : [patch] Race condition in multifdsink can lead to spuriou...
* 339786 : [typefinding] wavpack typefinding doesn't always work
* 340369 : [volume element] " volume " property range insufficient
* 340379 : [playbin] doesn't insert audioresample, causes problems w...
* 340392 : Problem with internal-decodebin
* 341160 : [multifdsink] client_status enum has an uninitialized nick
* 341182 : Accessing playbin's streaminfo property from high languag...
* 341432 : [playbin] automatically get icecast metadata requiring ic...
* 341542 : some users have an assertion failed: (GST_VIDEO_SINK_WIDT...
* 341557 : Map GST_TAG_IMAGE < = > ID3v2 APIC tag
API added since 0.10.6:
* client-fd-removed signal added to multifdsink
* stream-info-value-array property added to playbin
* gst_video_calculate_display_ratio() in libgstvideo
Changes since 0.10.5:
* QoS in sinks and transform elements
* Needs GStreamer 0.10.5 for new GstBaseSink::async_playback() vmethod
* added theoraparse element
Bugs fixed since 0.10.5:
* 313136 : [playbin] hang while playing truncated ogg file
* 172848 : [subparse] subtitles with special chars are displayed as ...
* 305279 : [riff] uncompressed AVIs with 24bpp don't work
* 320765 : [ffmpegcolorspace] make win32+msvc compliant, don't use _...
* 323852 : Disable tests/icles on platforms that do not have X
* 325653 : build errors compiling audioresample on win32(vs7)
* 327357 : gst-plugins-base fails to compile with GCC 4.1
* 334620 : [gnomevfssrc] fails to connect to icecast streaming servers
* 334822 : [ffmpegcolorspace] YVU9 support
* 335028 : [typefinding] ID3 v1 tag is not recognized with mp3-in-wa...
* 335365 : inefficient use of GList in gst-plugins-base
* 336190 : [gnomevfssink] should accept non-URI filenames as " location "
* 336194 : [gnomevfssrc] some minor memory leaks
* 336477 : plugins need better/univied descriptions
* 336617 : Unable to recognise MPEG TS stream
* 337548 : Memory leaks in basertpdepayload
* 337945 : [oggdemux] segment stop position ignored
* 338419 : Regression in the handling of files with multiple audio/s...
* 338897 : Videoscale crashes as part of DVD to Ogg transcoding
* 339013 : [videorate] Goes into an infinite loop
* 339047 : [riff] handle H264 fourcc in addition to h264
* 339212 : ISO file typefinding regression
* 330748 : deadlock in base audio sink on playing- > paused state change
Bugs fixed since 0.10.4:
* 334216 : [gnomevfssrc] won't open some media on NFS mounts any longer
* 334226 : typefindfunctions plugin crashes on PPC on registration
Changes since 0.10.3:
* (Experimental) QoS support
* oggmuxer now creates 100% valid streams for Theora, Vorbis and Speex
* documentation updates
* better support for subtitles (seeking)
Bugs fixed since 0.10.3:
* 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 added since 0.10.3:
* GstTextOverlay::halignment
* GstTextOverlay::valignment
Changes since 0.10.2:
* typefind improvements
* Ogg decoding and encoding fixes
* Improved audio and video sink classes
* Bug and leak fixes
* Improved video scaling
* On-the-fly visualisation switching
* Subtitle support
Bugs fixed since 0.10.2:
* 330244 : gsttextoverlay.c:895: 'struct _GstCollectData' has no mem...
* 324000 : [playbin] post error or message on unknown input
* 153004 : [typefind] can't identify mp3 file with one single mpeg f...
* 323874 : [playbin] leaks sinks and threads when using gconfaudiosink
* 324626 : ffmpegcolorspace support for fourcc " UYVY "
* 326447 : check that all elements in -base pass queries they can't ...
* 328263 : Fix build with gcc 2.95
* 328279 : [decodebin] timeout issue when pre-rolling
* 329326 : Fix oggmux removing pads from collect pads
Changes since 0.10.1:
* ported gnomevfssink, cdparanoia
* New library and base class: GstCddaBaseSrc
* ported mixerutils.h
* added 'sine-tab' waveform to audiotestsrc
* added float audio to audiorate
Bugs fixed since 0.10.1:
* 324216 : [cdparanoia] missing patches from 0.8
* 324696 : [videotestsrc] does not start counting the time from zero...
* 324900 : Problem compiling gst-plugins-base with Forte
* 325984 : [playbin] cannot handle sources that produce raw audio/video
* 325990 : patch videotestsrc for using glib types
* 326601 : GstRingBuffer crashes with alaw/mulaw caps
* 327114 : [theoradec] should post tags on the bus
* 327216 : vorbisdec segfaults on certain queries
API added since 0.10.1:
* added libgstcddabase
* added mixerutils.h
Changes since 0.10.0:
* Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
* Threadsafe design and API
* removed gst-launch-ext
* Ported: ogmparse
* Fixes for: subparse, xvimagesink, audioresample, videorate, decodebin
Bugs fixed since 0.10.0:
* 322347 : GstBaseRtpDepayload timestamps are wring
* 323900 : Basertpdepayloader lets NEWSEGMENT events through unfiltered
* 323878 : missing < string.h > inclusion (for memset & FD_ZERO)
API added since 0.10.0:
* GstAlsaMixer::device
* GstAlsaMixer::device-name
Bugs fixed since 0.9.7:
* 319172 : gstreamer-plugins-base-0.9.pc doesn't export linking flags
* 323017 : While(1) loop with sleep(0) in basertpdepayload.c
Changes since 0.9.6:
* Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
* Threadsafe design and API
* ximagesink and xvimagesink updates and interactive test
* added pango
* rename net to netbuffer library
* rtp element renaming
* stream selector fixes
Bugs fixed since 0.9.6:
* 319618 : [decodebin] some ogg videos don't play
* 320644 : RTP packetizer does't set the packet timestamps correctly
* 322388 : xvimagesink force-aspect-ratio=True always displays squar...
* 322704 : oggdemux typefind list leak
Changes since 0.9.5:
* Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
* Threadsafe design and API
* lots of leak fixes
* flicker-free and rewritten X sinks
* fractional framerates
* removed sinesrc, replaced by audiotestsrc
Bugs fixed since 0.9.5:
* 316442 : playbin should use autoaudiosink/autovideosink by default
* 318353 : [ffmpegcolorspace] forward-port fixes from 0.8 branch
* 320200 : vorbisenc: min-bitrate and max-bitrate are 1/1000 bps rat...
* 321164 : gstringbuffer stops working under load
* 321426 : ximage plugin should be renamed to ximagesink
* 321446 : sinesrc should be dropped in favour of audiotestsrc
* 321451 : GstRtpBuffer: no way to create a sub buffer with only the...
* 321816 : [API] xoverlay API to post prepare-xwindow-id message
* 321894 : vorbisenc doesn't compile
* 322117 : Rename libgsttagedit to libgsttag
Changes since 0.9.4:
* video caps now use a good range for framerate and w/h
* oggdemux/oggmux improvements
* playbin improvements
Bugs fixed since 0.9.4:
* 319110 : [PATCH] oggdemux chain finding is slow
* 320058 : playbin of a jpeg over http does not work
* 320923 : [volume] doesn't build on Solaris
* 321011 : gstbasertpdepayload doesn't send the " new segment " event ...
Changes since 0.9.3:
* New element: audiotestsrc
* typefind improvements
* buffer-frames removed
Changes since 0.9.2:
* RTP base classes
Bugs fixed since 0.9.2:
* 313251 : ximagesink unused functions
* 315159 : audioconvert lost 24 bit conversions in the rewrite