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| GStreamer "30 Second Frenchman" 0.3.4 released |
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| RELEASE NOTES |
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| The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the |
| GStreamer streaming-media framework. |
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| Focus of this release |
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| This release fixes a few developer usability issues. |
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| A few of the API functions have been changed to offer better |
| functionality and to be more consistent with other toolkits (GLib, |
| GTK). |
| Sample changes: |
| * gst_elementfactory_make to gst_element_factory_make |
| * GST_PADTEMPLATE_* to GST_PAD_TEMPLATE_* |
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| This release of GStreamer has been primarily made in support of |
| RhythmBox. It should really work with their upcoming 0.2.0 release. |
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| The gst-launch parsing has been bisonified. This allows for better and |
| more consistent command-line parsing. Accordingly, some changes in the |
| dynamic pad treatment have been made as well. |
| The registry handling has been changed. gst-register will now write to |
| a local registry (in ~/.gstreamer/reg.xml) if it does not have |
| permissions to write to the global registry. Normal applications not |
| running as root will prefer this local registry if it exists, and fall |
| back to the global otherwise. |
| Also, a --gst-registry option has been added to all gst applications. |
| If this is specified, then the application will ONLY use this |
| registry. This is useful for testsuites inside the core as well as |
| general testing of plugins. |
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| GStreamer is now in Gnome's Bugzilla. Please file bugs against us |
| there whenever you find them ! |
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| Changes in the 0.3.x tree |
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| The 0.3.x tree is our first tree using GLib 2.0 and libxml2 as the |
| sole compile platform. We have also started including all our |
| documentation in our RPMS starting this tree. People wanting to build |
| GStreamer themselves with documentation should look at the DOCBUILDING |
| file for some information on what packages are needed to build that |
| successfully. |
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| Another new feature of this release tree is the gst-launch-ext |
| command-line application. It uses predefined pipelines to play back |
| media files based on their file extension. This means that you don't |
| need to construct your own pipelines using gst-launch if all you want |
| to do is play a file. Just type gst-launch-ext [filename] and the |
| audiofile or movie plays for you. This of course also being a work in |
| progress means that sometimes it might decide on the wrong pipeline, |
| or cause jitter, as well as random headaches. |
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| For help building GStreamer, take a look at our [1]build help document |
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| Updates and Enhancements in this release |
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| * Improved API naming |
| * New registry handling, allowing for global, local or specified |
| registry |
| * bison parser |
| * gst-launch-ext dynamic pad fixes |
| * various fixes in mad and vorbisdec for RhythmBox |
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| Previously, in the 0.3.x tree |
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| * devhelp documentation |
| * New and improved Props API |
| * New master clock system |
| * dxr3 plugin |
| * libcolorspace plugin |
| * Full dparams documentation |
| * All functions documented (551 functions documented) |
| * Python bindings |
| * Portability fixes (no more C++ // style comments) |
| * a52dec plugin updated to a52dec 0.7.3 API |
| * gnome-vfs plugin updated to new seek api |
| * Misc bug and caps fixes |
| * SPEC files improvements |
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| More details on these features can be found on the project's website, |
| [2]http://gstreamer.net/. Source tarballs are also mirrored at |
| [3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/. If you use Red Hat (or |
| possibly other RPM-based systems), RPMs for both GStreamer itself, |
| external libraries and development tools not included in the standard |
| reference distribution (RedHat 7.2) can be found in |
| [4]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat. |
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| GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge, so support requests and bugs may |
| be filed as usual. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, |
| 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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| We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix |
| and True64 that would be willing to try building and testing |
| GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome. |
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| Contributors to this release |
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| Core |
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| * Erik Walthinsen <omega@temple-baptist.com> |
| * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@chello.be> |
| * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org> |
| * Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> |
| * Benjamin Otte <in7y118@public.uni-hamburg.de> |
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| Plugins and Sample Applications |
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| * Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org> |
| * David Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu> |
| * Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net> |
| * Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> |
| * Martin Enlund <martin@enlund.net> |
| * Arik Devens <arik@gnome.org> |
| * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13@yahoo.fr> |
| * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147@yahoo.com> |
| * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org@yahoo.co.uk> |
| * Rehan Khwaja <rehankhwaja@yahoo.com> |
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| Misc |
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| * Christian Schaller <christian.schaller@linuxrising.org> |
| * Calum Selkirk <cselkirk@panix.com> |
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| References |
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| 1. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/buildhelp.php |
| 2. http://gstreamer.net/ |
| 3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/ |
| 4. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat/ |
