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| GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1] |
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| The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the |
| GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused |
| on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of |
| GStreamer are API stable at this point. In preparation of a stable |
| release, we have also done a thorough license audit to make sure that |
| the licenses of all plug-ins are properly documented, and that as many |
| of them as possible are available under the LGPL license that |
| GStreamer uses. |
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| We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under |
| development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific |
| check out our [1]applications status page. |
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| Updates and Enhancements |
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| General |
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| * Further work on the Graphical Pipeline Editor, getting to be very |
| stable and well working. |
| * KDE/Qt bindings created for easier creation of KDE applications on |
| top of GStreamer |
| * General C++ bindings for use with gtkmm and other C++ projects |
| added to gst-bind module (in CVS) |
| * Effectv and virtualdub based plug-ins relicensed under LGPL |
| (previously GPL) |
| * Some manual examples updated and extracted to code (in |
| examples/manual) |
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| Core |
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| * Many memleaks plugged |
| * Lots of code cleaning |
| * Many documentation improvements |
| * Small change to [2]Plugin API |
| * Removed use of -Wall and -Werror from release tarball for non-gcc |
| compilers, more permanent solution upcoming. |
| * Old schedulers renamed: we now use basicomega as the default |
| scheduler, with the others being fastomega, basicwingo and |
| fastwingo. |
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| Plug-ins |
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| * BSD and Darwin cd playing |
| * New Mixermatrix plugin added |
| * New Flash plugin added |
| * RTP plugin moved back to librtp and plugin now includes library |
| code (still experimental, check configure --help on how to enable) |
| * New v4l2 plugins |
| * Updated v4l plugins |
| * Improvements to dvdnav plugin |
| * iRadio support added to gnomevfs plugin |
| * Median video plugin updated and now working |
| * Fixed many major bugs in the gnome-vfs library |
| * Got rid of misleading warnings from plugins |
| * Avi muxer much improved |
| * Fix bug in mad plugin that caused loss of frames |
| * mp3 typefind fixed to properly handle id3v2 tags |
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| Known Issues |
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| GStreamer currently ships with schedulers based on two cothread |
| packages. The 'omega' cothread package is the one we have been |
| shipping for a long time now and is still the default in this release. |
| There are however some limitations and thread-related bugs in the |
| omega scheduler. These limitations are not present in the 'wingo' |
| schedulers, but unfortunately it does not work with i686 glibc at this |
| time due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to |
| other architectures, including i386. A new (third) scheduler (that |
| doesn't use cothreads) is being developed. |
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| As for the bugs in the 'omega' schedulers, we did not feel they |
| warranted not releasing 0.4.1 as they are rather obscure. For instance |
| if you are using Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs |
| nonstop to trigger it. You can choose a different scheduler by passing |
| --scheduler=(name) to any GStreamer application. |
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| Wim Taymans has started work on a new scheduler. The first part is |
| already in CVS, but it will probably still be some months before it is |
| ready. |
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| GStreamer Homepage |
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| More details on these features can be found on the project's website, |
| [3]http://gstreamer.net/. |
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| Support and Bugs |
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| We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The |
| "product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following |
| before writing a bug report : |
| gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1 |
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| and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have |
| some information useful in the debugging process. |
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| Developers |
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| GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. 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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| 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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| Patches to the core of Gstreamer |
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| * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be> |
| * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org> |
| * Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com> |
| * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk> |
| * Cameron Hutchison <camh(AT)xdna.net> |
| * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org> |
| * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net> |
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| Plugins and Sample Applications |
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| * Richard Boulton <richard(AT)tartarus.org> |
| * David Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu> |
| * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr> |
| * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com> |
| * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org> |
| * Charles Schmidt <cbschmid(AT)users.sourceforge.net> |
| * Goraxe <goraxe@ntlworld.com> |
| * Colin Walters <walters(AT)gnu.org> |
| * Kristian Rietveld <kris(AT)gtk.org> |
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| Misc |
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| * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org> |
| * Tim Jansen <tim.jansen(AT)kde.org> |
| * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu> |
| * Christian Meyer <chrisime(AT)gnome.org> |
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| [1] It is a little-known fact that the Beatles decided their track |
| listing for their albums based on a process called the 'GEP' process. |
| After some initial problems, this worked very well. The only known |
| failure of this process happened when George Harrison commited the |
| out-of-place 'Within You Without You' to Sergeant Pepper without |
| review by the other band members. This near split-up led to one of |
| their finest songs on the world-reknowned White Album. |
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| References |
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| 1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2 |
| 2. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9557296/ |
| 3. http://gstreamer.net/ |
| 4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ |
| 5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/ |
