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Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.22 "Toy Piano"
        


The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
in the 0.10.x stable series of the
GStreamer Bad 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.



"That an accusation?"


No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B.
They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
showdown.


Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
You dig.


This module contains a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the
rest.  They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
- be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
maintainer, or some actual wide use.  If the blanks are filled in they might be
upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
depending on the other factors.
If the plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
New contributors can start here for things to work on.


Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
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



  

Features of this release
    
      * aiffparse: add support for 32 bit and 64 bit floating point formats
      * aiffparse: the SSND header is 16 bytes large, not 8 + 16 bytes
      * assrender: refactor blitting, avoid writing past end of buffer
      * camerabin2: Add a property to select the encoding profile
      * camerabin2: Add custom filter properties
      * camerabin2: Add image-done message
      * camerabin2: Adding audio support for video recordings
      * camerabin2: Adding properties for image capture settings
      * camerabin2: Add methods for preview image message posting
      * camerabin2: Add preview-filter property
      * camerabin2: Adds new idle property
      * camerabin2: Add viewfinder caps related properties
      * camerabin2: Add viewfinder-sink property
      * camerabin2: Implement previewing
      * camerabin2: Implement tagsetter interface
      * camerabin2: Move preview helper functions to basecamerabinsrc
      * camerabin2: Move to encodebin
      * camerabin2: Moving preview image properties to basecamerasrc
      * camerabin: adding audio related properties
      * camerabin: Always take photo when preview-caps is set
      * camerabin: don't rely on the application running the default GLib main loop
      * camerabin: Events with select-all in input-selector
      * camerabin: Fix corner case for preview posting
      * camerabin: Use running time for muxing
      * celtenc: Fix compilation with celt >= 0.11.0
      * colorspace: add 16-bit-per-channel handling
      * colorspace: add dithering, add support for r210 and fix YUV->RGB matrixing
      * curlsink: add libcurl-based sink element
      * decklink: Add decklink plugin
      * directdrawsink: avoid aspect-ratio borders overlying other windows
      * directdrawsink: avoid rendering to invalid area
      * dshowvideosink: update for latest GstXOverlay changes
      * dvbsuboverlay: Fix using alpha values in blitting
      * dvdspu: don't write clipped lines to the output buffer
      * dvdsubdec: make up clut values if they weren't set
      * fieldanalysis: new fieldanalysis element
      * fpsdisplaysink: add "silent" property, fix "sync" property default value
      * fpsdisplaysink: add "frames-dropped" and "frames-rendered" properties
      * fpsdisplaysink: add "last-message" property and never print anything to stdout
      * gme: fix infinite looping by fading out after two loops
      * h263parse: add an h263parse element
      * hlsdemux: Add HTTP live streaming parser/demuxer element
      * id3mux: map new GST_TAG_ENCODED_BY to ID3v2 TENC frame
      * jifmux: Add GstTagXmpWriter support
      * jp2kdec, jp2kenc: add support v308 (4:4:4 YUV)
      * jp2kdec: post proper error when the image's colour space is not supported
      * jpegparse: misc. fixes
      * linsys: Add plugin for Linear Systems SDI boards
      * logoinsert: add "data" property; fix memleaks
      * mpegtsdemux: new (not-yet autoplugged) MPEG TS demuxer rewrite
      * mpegtsmux: add byte-stream to h264 template pad caps
      * mpegtsmux: don't error out if downstream fails to handle the newsegment event
      * mpegtspacketizer: Handle all ISO8859-x encodings in get_encoding()
      * opencv: make work with openCV 2.2
      * patchdetect: new element
      * rsvgoverlay: allow negative values for x/y/width/height
      * rsvgoverlay: implement x/y/width/height (absolute and relative) positioning and dimensioning
      * rtpvp8: Add simple payloaders and depayloaders for VP8
      * scenechange: new scene change detection element
      * sdi: Add raw SDI muxing/demuxing elements
      * shm: Allow ShmPipe to save a data pointer for applications
      * shm: Keep the ShmPipe alive as long as there are blocks left
      * shm: Make default perm u+rw g+r for shm area
      * shmsink: ensure gst_poll_wait is called first on descriptors
      * shmsink: Keep shmsink referenced while there are still buffers around
      * shmsrc: Keep GstPoll for whole src lifetime
      * shmsrc: Only connect to sink in PLAYING in live mode
      * vdpau: fixup GstFlowReturn handling
      * vdpausink: fix bug where we didn't setup vdpau on a user set window
      * videoparsers: new h263parse element
      * videoparsers: baseparse-based dirac parser, new baseparse-based h264parse
      * xvidenc: proxy downstream caps restrictions upstream via get_caps()
      * zebrastripe: New element

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 646211 : [camerabin] state changes need to be made when recording a video
      * 608786 : [mpegtsmux] Internal H.264 byte-stream wrapping isn't working correctly
      * 334107 : xviddec: segmentation fault after a few frames
      * 582167 : jacksink does not flush the jack port when going to READY
      * 586848 : qtmux, asfmux: remuxing streams with different start times
      * 591651 : dvbsrc: use better nicks for GstDvbSrcModulation and other enums
      * 594035 : [hlsdemux] Add HTTP Live Streaming playback support
      * 594280 : directdrawsink: avoid rendering to invalid area
      * 602847 : [dvdspu] Segfaults on seeking in matroska file
      * 611061 : [mpegtsmux] some buffers are forgotten to push in m2ts_mode
      * 615655 : [camerabin] shouldn't rely on running GLib main loop
      * 616814 : Photography interface extension: colour tone mode and noise reduction settings
      * 617532 : [qtmux] Take into account new-segments for incoming streams
      * 622276 : Add an h263parse element
      * 626618 : jpegparse doesn't handle APP12 marker
      * 632056 : Directdrawsink draws black stripes over the overlying dialog windows.
      * 639502 : [camerabin] should not re-create preview pipeline when setting new preview  caps
      * 639763 : [dvbsuboverlay] Green borders around subtitles
      * 639841 : examples: camerabin: Don't set default values for GstPhotography interface settings
      * 640286 : elements/imagecapturebin check fails
      * 640287 : camerabin2 checks fail
      * 640327 : Add VP8 RTP payloaders and depayloaders
      * 640561 : opencv textwrite element renaming and proper structuring:
      * 640637 : Camerabin has warning: Internal GStreamer error: clock problem.
      * 640885 : Permission problems building bad
      * 641047 : [mpegaudioparse] Multiple issues with new mpegaudioparse element from -bad, lower rank?
      * 641178 : rtpvp8: build problem, needs to link with libgstbase-0.10
      * 641496 : New plugin: curlsink
      * 641530 : Camerabin should capture image if preview_caps is set even if filename is not set
      * 641712 : XWindow is never created in gst-camerabin-test example application
      * 641796 : opencv: make plugin work with opencv 2.2.0 release
      * 641857 : baseparse: Update min/max bitrate before first posting them
      * 641858 : mpegaudioparse: Post CBR bitrate as nominal bitrate
      * 642116 : rsvgoverlay: add position/dimension parameters
      * 642658 : rsvgoverlay: allow negative values for position/dimension parameters
      * 642671 : fieldanalysis: New element for analysing video input to produce progressive output
      * 643469 : fpsdisplaysink: add frames-dropped and frames-rendered properties
      * 643471 : fpsdisplaysink: fix default sync property value
      * 643607 : [celt] Doesn't compile with celt 0.11.1
      * 644176 : videofilters: needs to link against libm
      * 644208 : dcaparse: add depth and endianness to dts caps to allow elements to negotiate on these certain stream format requirements
      * 644429 : [mpegtsmux] in m2ts-mode, the tp_extra_header is incorrect
      * 645006 : [mpegtsmux] in m2ts-mode, PAT is written only once
      * 645053 : shm: multiple compile failures on Solaris 10
      * 645412 : [h264parse] h264parse doesn't set framed=True on src caps
      * 645420 : [scaletempo] Incorrectly handles new segments with stop == -1
      * 645502 : [h264parse] leaks fatally on certain streams
      * 645568 : aiffparse: doesn't play 24-bit AIFF properly
      * 645711 : patchdetect: link error while using gcc-4.52
      * 646256 : qtmux " buffer without timestamp/duration " error message could be more helpful
      * 646495 : hlsdemux: Add missing patches from my local branch
      * 646840 : shmsink: ensure gst_poll_wait is the first gst_poll function called on a descriptor
      * 646955 : dshowvideosink: Update to reflect latest GstXOverlay changes
      * 647030 : [fpsdisplaysink] " silent " property
      * 647364 : VGM files loop indefinately
      * 647498 : xvidenc not forwarding caps
      * 647564 : gst-plugins-bad configure.ac summary wrongly claims an exif plugin
      * 647830 : assrender: crashes with very large subtitles
      * 647852 : [schroenc] Crashes after some time when getting buffers after EOS
      * 647853 : [schrodec] Impossible to play very short files
      * 647854 : [schrodec] Allocates buffers with NULL caps from downstream
      * 648001 : configure: Fix linsys/decklink checks for Linux
      * 648929 : [tsdemux] Memory leaks everywhere
      * 649005 : y4mdec: add plugin description
      * 647751 : [hlsdemux] Fix usage of the element in players
      * 621027 : mpegtsparse problem when parsing EIT and obtaining Transport Stream packet size

Download

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

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
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Contributors to this release
    
      * Alexey Fisher
      * Andoni Morales Alastruey
      * Andreas Frisch
      * Arun Raghavan
      * Benjamin Gaignard
      * Byeong-ryeol Kim
      * Carl-Anton Ingmarsson
      * Chris E Jones
      * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Fabrizio Milo
      * Haakon Sporsheim
      * Hu Gang
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Janne Grunau
      * Lasse Laukkanen
      * Lauri Lehtinen
      * Luciana Fujii Pontello
      * Luis de Bethencourt
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Mart Raudsepp
      * Mihai Draghicioiu
      * Olivier Aubert
      * Olivier Crête
      * Patricia Muscalu
      * Philip Jägenstedt
      * Philippe Normand
      * Raimo Järvi
      * René Stadler
      * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
      * Robert Swain
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sjoerd Simons
      * Sreerenj Balachandran
      * Stefan Kost
      * Teemu Katajisto
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thibault Saunier
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
      * benjamin gaignard