gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer Good Plugins 1.3.1


The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the unstable
1.3 release series. The 1.3 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.3 release series
will lead to the stable 1.4 release series in the next weeks, and newly added
API can still change until that point.



Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
during the unstable 1.3 release series.



The versioning scheme that is used in general is that 1.x.y is API and
ABI backwards compatible with previous 1.x.y releases. If x is an even
number it is a stable release series and all releases in this series
will only contain important bugfixes, e.g. the 1.0 series with 1.0.7. If
x is odd it is a development release series that will lead to the next
stable release series 1.x+1 and contains new features and bigger
changes. During the development release series, new API can still
change.



"Such ingratitude.  After all the times I've saved your life."


A collection of plugins you'd want to have right next to you on the
battlefield.  Shooting sharp and making no mistakes, these plugins have it
all: good looks, good code, and good licensing.  Documented and dressed up
in tests.  If you're looking for a role model to base your own plugin on,
here it is.


If you find a plot hole or a badly lip-synced line of code in them,
let us know - it is a matter of honour for us to ensure Blondie doesn't look
like he's been walking 100 miles through the desert without water.


This module contains a set of plugins that we consider to have good quality
  code, correct functionality, our preferred license (LGPL for the plugin
  code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library).
We believe distributors can safely ship these plugins.
People writing elements should base their code on these elements.


Other modules containing plugins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
gst-plugins-ugly
contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
    distributors
gst-plugins-bad
contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
    rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
    and/or unit tests
gst-libav
contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)



  

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 728501 : rtpaux/rtprtx: Unit tests are racy and take very long sometimes
      * 719636 : deinterlace: alters caps in passthrough mode preventing hardware decode
      * 727305 : matroskademux: Add support for A_OPUS
      * 725632 : v4l2: Normalise control names in the same way as v4l2-ctl
      * 345830 : qtdemux: better edit lists handling
      * 636143 : avidemux: report creation date/time via GST_TAG_DATE_TIME
      * 652986 : rtpjitterbuffer: events are not serialized
      * 664339 : matroskamux: support for audio/x-adpcm
      * 691570 : [isomp4/qtdemux] lots of critical warnings on this sample file
      * 692787 : rtph264pay: No way to clear SPS and PPS in case of a new stream
      * 705024 : aacparse: does not propagate downstream sample rate restriction upstream
      * 705982 : mp4mux: HDLR box name string is not NULL terminated
      * 708165 : videomixer: Store and forward tag events
      * 709079 : rtpgstpay: Leaks memory
      * 709093 : qtdemux: add HEVC support
      * 709266 : matroska-demux leaks memory
      * 709312 : videoflip: Add an automatic method that flip base on image-orientation tag
      * 710415 : hdv1394src: Not possible to select a HDV camera from GUID
      * 710762 : qtdemux: fails reading some MOV files with problematic jpeg frames
      * 711010 : videomixer: remove unneeded guint comparison
      * 711011 : y4mencode: fix uninitialized variable warning
      * 711013 : osxvideosink: fix missing selector name warning
      * 711084 : rtpmanager: add new rtprtxsend and rtprtxreceive elements for retransmission
      * 711087 : rtpbin: Support Auxiliary streams
      * 711270 : check: add rtpsession test
      * 711411 : rtpjitterbuffer: implement RTX statistics
      * 711412 : rtpjitterbuffer: Automatically calculate RTX properties based on RTT
      * 711560 : rtpsession: ssrc collision improvements
      * 711693 : rtpsession: Implement various session statistics
      * 712206 : v4l2: print FOURCC before enumerating
      * 712254 : multifilesrc: Implement seeking in case of multiple images
      * 712303 : qtdemux: playback regression after commit ae1150e85cf99d7482933aa6f7e4f012fe45a3ec
      * 712567 : rtpsession: RBs are not included in SRs after the first RTCP timeout when there are multiple internal senders
      * 712612 : v4l2bufferpool: take over the floating reference for the new allocator
      * 712754 : v4l2: add support for multi-planar V4L2 API
      * 719434 : rtph264pay maps and unmaps inbuffer twice
      * 719497 : videoflip: crashes on tag list without orientation tag in git master
      * 719783 : qtdemux: regression with mp4-main-multi-mpd-AV-NBS.mpd
      * 719829 : rtp: Add RFC4571 framing/de-framing element
      * 719938 : rtpbin: allow dynamic RTP/RTCP encoders and decoders
      * 720371 : rtpbin: Impossible to set jitterbuffer rtx-* properties when using rtpbin
      * 720512 : flacparse: Doesn't set the codec tag
      * 720568 : v4l2: Various changes to allow using M2M decoders
      * 720995 : matroskamux: add g726 adpcm support
      * 721245 : osxvideosink: Fails to build on OS X Leopard 10.5.8
      * 721342 : shout2send: Some minor cleanups
      * 722175 : rtpmanager: improve code of rtprtx* elements
      * 722370 : rtprtxsend: push rtx buffers from a different thread to avoid long retransmission delays
      * 722372 : rtpjitterbuffer: Got data flow before stream-start event
      * 722394 : v4l2: set GST_BUFFER_FLAG_DELTA_UNIT when appropriate
      * 722396 : avimux: don't make the buffer writable unless absolutely necessary
      * 722866 : rtspsrc: add rtpjitterbuffer do-retransmission property
      * 722981 : autodetect elements have inconsistent handling of autoplugin
      * 723166 : qtdemux: incorrect tag character
      * 723269 : matroskamux: used uid list grows forever
      * 723289 : cairooverlay: add RGB16 support
      * 723502 : gst-plugins-good: Do not build check tests for disabled plugins
      * 723849 : matroska: add support for GRAY8, BGR and RGB video  colourspaces in V_UNCOMPRESSED codec
      * 724085 : gst-plugins-good/docs: Rebalance docbook < para > tags in comments
      * 724213 : rtph264pay: shouldn't update time for sending SPS and PPS if we failed to send SPS or PPS
      * 724396 : rtspsrc: add tls-database property
      * 724636 : v4l2videodec: VP8 KO with playbin
      * 724705 : videomixer: Port to new collectpads API
      * 724712 : rtspsrc doesn't set caps on pads before adding them
      * 724899 : v4l2src does not set interlaced flag on buffers
      * 725008 : matroskademux: crash with 24bit raw audio
      * 725159 : rtpjitterbuffer: RTP sequence number rollover problems
      * 725361 : [regression] rtpsession: setting the " internal-ssrc " property does nothing
      * 725480 : gst-plugins-good: Ignore gcov intermediate files
      * 725723 : osxvideo: GetCurrentProcess not available on Mavericks
      * 725948 : videomixer2: crash after renegotiating with different resolution
      * 726106 : matroskademux: does not handle fps lower than 1
      * 726161 : png plugin handles interlaced png files incorrectly
      * 726696 : rtspsrc memleaks
      * 726737 : osxvideosink: advertize for the video meta API support
      * 726738 : osxvideosink: use the video frame API instead of the video meta API
      * 726833 : ximagesrc: Add alpha channel support
      * 726837 : rtspsrc segfault
      * 727821 : souphttpsrc: Regression in push mode
      * 727867 : qtdemux: Does not return stream flags from trex atom
      * 727878 : qtdemux: replace duplicated variable when parsing trex atom
      * 729223 : wavparse: drops upstream tags for .wav files that are ID3 tagged
      * 728987 : qtdemux: 'caps' may be used uninitialized in this function.
      * 729067 : goom filter: left shift of 24 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
      * 712333 : regression: videoflip: aborts with gst_video_flip_transform_caps: code should not be reached
      * 722077 : v4l2: compile error - 'V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M_MPLANE' undeclared
      * 722127 : v4l2: Add NV12_64Z32 support
      * 722128 : v4l2: Implement video decoder
      * 723446 : v4l2src: Should detect support for mplanar formats during runtime
      * 726453 : v4l2 plugin broken due to bundeling of videodev2.h
      * 721764 : souphttpsrc: Add ability to do HTTP session logging
      * 722311 : matroskaparse: should try to identify data on stream header before going with a blind
      * 722705 : Factor out common init/reset code from matroska parse/demux
      * 712643 : qtdemux: couple of issues with vobsub
      * 581295 : mp4mux:  Add support for embedded subtitles

==== Download ====

You can find source releases of gst-plugins-good in the download
directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/

The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/

==== Homepage ====

The project's website is 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

Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.

For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).

There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.

==== Developers ====

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
from there (see link above).

Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.

        
Contributors to this release
    
      * Akihiro Tsukada
      * Aleix Conchillo Flaque
      * Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
      * Alessandro Decina
      * Alexander Zallesov
      * Andoni Morales Alastruey
      * Benjamin Gaignard
      * Branislav Katreniak
      * Brendan Long
      * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
      * Dan Kegel
      * Darryl Gamroth
      * Djalma Lúcio Soares da Silva
      * Edward Hervey
      * George Kiagiadakis
      * Göran Jönsson
      * Hans Månsson
      * Hugues Fruchet
      * Jake Foytik
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Jeremy Huddleston
      * Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
      * Jimmy Ohn
      * Jonas Holmberg
      * Josep Torra
      * Julien Isorce
      * Justin Joy
      * Luis de Bethencourt
      * Marc Leeman
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Matej Knopp
      * Mathieu Duponchelle
      * MathieuDuponchelle
      * Matthieu Bouron
      * Michael Olbrich
      * Mike Sheldon
      * Nicola Murino
      * Nicolas Dufresne
      * Ognyan Tonchev
      * Olivier Crête
      * Paul HENRYS
      * Per x Johansson
      * Peter Korsgaard
      * Philippe Normand
      * Rafał Mużyło
      * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
      * Rico Tzschichholz
      * Ryan Lortie
      * Santiago Carot-Nemesio
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sebastian Rasmussen
      * Simon Farnsworth
      * Sreerenj Balachandran
      * Stefan Sauer
      * Stéphane Cerveau
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thibault Saunier
      * Thijs Vermeir
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Todd Agulnick
      * Torrie Fischer
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * William Jon McCann
      * William Manley
      * Wim Taymans
      * divhaere