
GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.8.8 "I'll Take Care Of You"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.


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.


This module only contains core functionality.  For actual media playback,
you will need other modules.  GStreamer Plugins contains a huge set of
additional plugins.  GStreamer FFmpeg contains a plugin based on the popular
FFmpeg decoding library.  These modules need not have the same source version
as the core, as long as they are in the 0.8.x series.

  
Features of this release
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
      * Internationalization
      * Threading fixes
      * Opt scheduler fixes
      * Documentation updates
      * New translation: Norwegian Bokmaal (Kjartan Maraas)
      * New translation: Italian (Luca Ferretti)
      * New scheduler: fair

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 144804 : opt scheduler breaks on playing a pipeline
      * 148787 : clocks are not distributed correctly
      * 149936 : [PATCH] [build] GStreamer without registry support do not...
      * 150051 : fakesrc needs a data rate parameter that timestamps the d...
      * 151605 : impossible to play .mpg or avi files with gst-launch-ext
      * 153882 : [PATCH] The win32 version of gstenumtypes is not up to date
      * 154061 : optimal scheduler doesn't get freed
      * 156063 : infinite loop and 100% CPU with some MP3
      * 156179 : gstreamer typefind plugin information from gst-inspect is...
      * 157127 : Cleanup of issues reported by sparse
      * 157263 : use G_SIGNAL_TYPE_STATIC_SCOPE for GstBuffers in handoff ...
      * 158018 : gstreamer typefind stalls on these JPEG files
      * 158162 : opt deadlock
      * 158163 : [api] Problem querying on ghostpads
      * 159852 : [PATCH] [api] g_signal_emit thread safety issues
      * 160019 : segfault when error occurs playback of uri containing per...
      * 160220 : gst_pad_set_explicit_caps of a NULL caps doesn't work

API changed in this release
     

- API additions:
    
* A new function, gst_plugin_get_version, has been added.

Download

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

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

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.

        
Applications

Applications already ported to use GStreamer 0.8.x include the GNOME
desktop components like gnome-media and nautilus-media, as well as other
GNOME applications including sound-juicer, totem and RhythmBox.

  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Benjamin Otte
      * Christian Schaller
      * Christophe Fergeau
      * Daniel Gazard
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Luca Ferretti
      * Kjartan Maraas
      * Martin Soto
      * Matt Kraai
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Sebastien Cote
      * Stefan Kost
      * Stephane Loeuillet
      * Steve Lhomme
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * William Jon McCann
      * Wim Taymans
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali