| Release notes for GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0.0 |
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| The GStreamer project is pleased to announce the very first release of the |
| new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. |
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| The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI |
| compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed in parallel |
| with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation. |
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| Major improvements include: more flexible memory handling; extensible and |
| negotiable metadata for buffers; caps negotiation and renegotiation mechanisms, |
| decoupled from buffer allocation; improved caps renegotiation; automatic |
| re-sending of state for dynamic pipelines; reworked and more fine-grained pad |
| probing; simpler and more descriptive audio and video caps; more efficient |
| allocation of buffers, events and other mini objects; improved timestamp |
| handling; support for gobject-inspection-based language bindings; countless |
| other improvements. |
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| Most of these changes involve the GStreamer plugin API. The application API |
| has changed comparatively little, and most applications should be fairly easy |
| to port to the new API. There is a porting guide available. |
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| The GStreamer team would like to thank everyone who helped bring this release |
| about, whether by submitting patches, reporting bugs, testing, sponsoring |
| development, attending hackfests, or simply supplying moral support. |
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| This is the end of a long development process, but also the beginning of |
| one. This release does not mark the pinnacle of perfection, but the point |
| where the team is content with the API and stability and quality of the code |
| base in general, especially compared to the old 0.10 series. |
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| There will be bugs to fix, and starting from this release there will be |
| distinct bug-fixing and feature development cycles, with the goal of getting |
| bug-fixes out quicker and unencumbered by other more risky changes. See |
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| http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReleasePlanning/RoadMap |
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| for a tentative road map and possible schedule. |
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| === Module |
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| "Such ingratitude. After all the times I've saved your life." |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| We believe distributors can safely ship these plugins. |
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| People writing elements should base their code on these elements. |
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| Other modules containing plugins are: |
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| gst-plugins-base : a basic set of well-supported plugins |
| gst-plugins-ugly : a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems |
| for distributors |
| gst-plugins-bad : a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the |
| rigorous quality testing we expect |
| gst-libav : a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg) |
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| ==== Download |
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| You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory: |
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| http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ |
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| ==== GStreamer Homepage |
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| More details can be found on the project's website: |
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| 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: |
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| http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer |
| or |
| http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bugs/ |
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| ==== Developers |
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| GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be |
| cloned from there. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and |
| applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list and/or pop into |
| our #gstreamer IRC channel on Freenode. |
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| ==== Contributors to this release |
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| Alban Browaeys |
| Aleix Conchillo Flaque |
| Alessandro Decina |
| Alexander Saprykin |
| Alexey Fisher |
| Andoni Morales Alastruey |
| Andrej Gelenberg |
| Antoine Tremblay |
| Anton Belka |
| Anton Novikov |
| Arun Raghavan |
| Bastien Nocera |
| Branko Subasic |
| Chris Pankow |
| Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller |
| Daniela |
| David Corvoysier |
| David Schleef |
| Dominique Leuenberger |
| Edward Hervey |
| Gary Ching-Pang Lin |
| Hans de Goede |
| Havard Graff |
| Huacai Chen |
| idc-dragon |
| Jan Schmidt |
| Javier Jardón |
| Jayakrishnan M |
| Jens Georg |
| John Ogness |
| Jonas Holmberg |
| Josep Torra |
| Leo Singer |
| Luis de Bethencourt |
| Marc Leeman |
| Maria Giovanna Chiossa |
| Mark Nauwelaerts |
| Martin Ertsaas |
| Mart Raudsepp |
| Matej Knopp |
| Mathias Hasselmann |
| Matthias Clasen |
| Michael Jones |
| Michael Rubinstein |
| Michael Smith |
| Mohammed Sameer |
| Nicola Murino |
| Nicolas Dufresne |
| Oleksij Rempel (Alexey Fisher) |
| Olivier Crête |
| Pascal Buhler |
| Patricia Muscalu |
| Peteris Krisjanis |
| Peter Seiderer |
| Philip Jägenstedt |
| Philippe Normand |
| Raimo Järvi |
| Ralph Giles |
| René Stadler |
| Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet |
| Robert Swain |
| Ross Burton |
| Sebastian Dröge |
| Sebastian Rasmussen |
| Sjoerd Simons |
| Sreerenj Balachandran |
| Stefan Sauer |
| Stig Sandnes |
| Thiago Santos |
| Thomas Vander Stichele |
| Tim-Philipp Müller |
| Tuukka Pasanen |
| uraeus |
| Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal |
| Vincent Penquerc'h |
| Vincent Untz |
| Wim Taymans |
| Xavi Artigas |
| Yaakov Selkowitz |
| Youness Alaoui |
| Руслан Ижбулатов |
