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| GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.0 "Pharmaceutical Itch" |
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| The GStreamer team is happy to announce the first release |
| in the 0.8.x stable series |
| of the GStreamer Plugins. |
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| The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users. |
| It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series. |
| It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series. |
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| This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding, |
| conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media |
| handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module |
| to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long |
| as all of them are in the 0.8.x series. |
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| The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If you |
| want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this |
| module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based colorspace |
| element has been added to the Plugins however. |
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| Features of this release |
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| * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series |
| * Internationalization |
| * Dutch, French and Serbian translations |
| * Updated to the new core 0.8 subsystems |
| * Reworked play and media-info libraries |
| * Audio sinks synchronize on timestamps |
| * New demuxer: ogg |
| * New decoder: theora |
| * New elements: rfb, switch, trm, ffmpegcolorspace |
| * New sinks: ximagesink, xvimagesink |
| * Fixes to all other elements, including audioconvert, interleave, alsa, videotestsrc |
| * Portability fixes |
| * ChangeLog use |
| * Coding style consistency |
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| Bugs fixed in this release |
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| * 126999 : [API]: "gstreamer-libs-0.7.pc" should be renamed |
| * 129299 : complied errors in alsa-lib-1.0.0-0.rc2 |
| * 131270 : pkg-config-ification patch (alsa, esd, shout2, ogg, speex, . |
| * 135921 : speexenc support won't compile with 1.1.x |
| * 136590 : mod plugins doesn't work atm |
| * 137044 : GConf schemas unreadable |
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| Download |
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| You find source releases of gst-plugins in the download directory: |
| http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/ |
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| GStreamer Homepage |
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| More details can be found on the project's website: |
| http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ |
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| Support and Bugs |
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| We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests: |
| http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer |
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| Developers |
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| 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. |
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| Applications |
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| The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found |
| under /system/gstreamer/0.8. Applications should use the gconf library, |
| as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings. |
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| Contributors to this release |
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| * Amaury Jacquot |
| * Andy Wingo |
| * Arwed v. Merkatz |
| * Benjamin Otte |
| * Brian Cameron |
| * Christian Schaller |
| * Christophe Fergeau |
| * Colin Walters |
| * Danilo Segan |
| * David I. Lehn |
| * David Schleef |
| * Iain Holmes |
| * Jan Schmidt |
| * Jérémy Simon |
| * Johan Dahlin |
| * Jon Trowbridge |
| * Julien Moutte |
| * Julio M. Merino Vidal |
| * Leif Morgan Johnson |
| * Ramon Garcia |
| * Ronald Bultje |
| * Steve Baker |
| * Thomas Canty |
| * Thomas Vander Stichele |
| * Stefan Kost |
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