gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.21 "We Could Be Wrong"
        


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
    
      * Continue playbin2 development
      * Ogg improvements - CELT support, skeleton fixes
      * DVD subpicture support
      * Improved audio dithering random number generator
      * xvimagesink/ximagesink fixes
      * Vorbis encoding and decoding fixes
      * Recognise Kate subtitle streams
      * Many bug-fixes and enhancements

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 537380 : [gnomevfssrc] Doesn't handle short reads properly
      * 538656 : xvimagesink support for autofill/colorkey property
      * 540334 : Build fails without X in tests/examples/seek
      * 528299 : Multiple GstMixerTracks with the same label cause problem...
      * 530068 : Ogg Streams with Skeleton and Granulepos > 0 do not work(...
      * 537009 : playbin2 silly typo breaks signals
      * 537045 : decodebin2 sometimes emits 'drained' multiple times
      * 537599 : [oggdemux] skeleton streams not skipped in ogg
      * 537889 : [xvimagesink] colorbalance is bad
      * 538232 : vorbisenc/vorbisdec don't work with a live source
      * 538663 : gdppay memleak in gst_gdp_pay_reset
      * 540215 : decodebin does not insert a queue for raw data type
      * 540351 : [avidemux] Doesn't know about Duck DK4 ADPCM
      * 540497 : ffmpegcolorspace is returning wrong size
      * 541358 : cross mingw32 gcc: getaddrinfo is not in ws2_32.dll befor...
      * 544306 : rtspsrc debug=1 segfaults with some libc
      * 548898 : GStreamer-CRITICAL errors on seeking beyond stream borders
      * 548913 : vorbisenc being picky about rounding errors in timestamps
      * 549062 : Video devices aren't updated on subsequent probing.
      * 549814 : [typefind] add application/pdf typefinder
      * 550582 : [oggdemux] KATE streams not recognised
      * 550638 : [typefind] Recognize some jpeg2k file types
      * 550656 : recognize TrueSpeech in wavparse
      * 550729 : gst-plugins-base won't compile with " -pedantic " option
      * 552960 : tagdemux asserts and aborts on truncated files
      * 553244 : theoraparse doesn't work at all (throws criticals and ass...

API changed in this release
     
- API additions:
    
* Add "index" property to GstMixerTrack to differantiate between
       multiple mixer tracks with the same label.

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
    
      * Alessandro Dessina
      * Andy Wingo
      * Antoine Tremblay
      * Damien Lespiau
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Evgeniy Stepanov
      * Frederic Crozat
      * Jan Gerber
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Jonathan Matthew
      * Julien Moutte
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Michael Smith
      * Mike Ruprecht
      * Sam Morris
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Wim Taymans