| Release notes for GStreamer Bad 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. |
| |
| 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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| "That an accusation?" |
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| No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to |
| cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B. |
| They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but |
| at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel |
| to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final |
| showdown. |
| |
| Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights, |
| patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can |
| steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two |
| kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig. |
| You dig. |
| |
| This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the |
| rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something |
| - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live |
| maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be |
| upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly, |
| depending on the other factors. |
| If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the |
| problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you. |
| New contributors can start here for things to work on. |
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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-good : a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license |
| gst-plugins-ugly : a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems |
| for distributors |
| 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. |
| |
| ==== Contributors to this release |
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| Alban Browaeys |
| Albert Astrals Cid |
| Aleix Conchillo Flaque |
| Alessandro Decina |
| Andoni Morales Alastruey |
| Andre Moreira Magalhaes (andrunko) |
| Andy Wingo |
| Antoine Tremblay |
| Arnaud Vrac |
| Arun Raghavan |
| Benjamin Otte |
| blake tregre |
| Brian Pepple |
| Carlos Rafael Giani |
| Carsten Kroll |
| Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller |
| Damien Lespiau |
| Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula |
| David Biomech360 |
| David Schleef |
| Dmitry Ketov |
| Edward Hervey |
| Fabrizio (Misto) Milo |
| Gil Pedersen |
| Guillaume Desmottes |
| Gwenole Beauchesne |
| Jacob Meuser |
| Jan Schmidt |
| John Hein |
| Jonas Larsson |
| Julian Scheel |
| Julien Isorce |
| Lasse Laukkanen |
| Luis de Bethencourt |
| Lukáš Lalinský |
| Marc-André Lureau |
| Mark Nauwelaerts |
| Mart Raudsepp |
| Matej Knopp |
| Michael Smith |
| Mike Ruprecht |
| Nicola Murino |
| Nicolas Dufresne |
| Oleksij Rempel (Alexey Fisher) |
| Olivier Crête |
| Patricia Muscalu |
| Peter Kjellerstedt |
| Peter Korsgaard |
| Peter Seiderer |
| Philippe Normand |
| Raimo Järvi |
| René Stadler |
| Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet |
| Rico Tzschichholz |
| Rob Clark |
| Robert Swain |
| Sebastian Dröge |
| Sebastian Rasmussen |
| Sreerenj Balachandran |
| Stefan Kost |
| Stefan Sauer |
| Thiago Santos |
| Thibault Saunier |
| Thomas Vander Stichele |
| Tim-Philipp Müller |
| Tommi Myöhänen |
| Tony Houghton |
| Vincent Penquerc'h |
| Wim Taymans |
| Wind Yuan |
| Xavier Queralt |
| Youness Alaoui |
| Zaheer Abbas Merali |
| Zhao Halley |
| Руслан Ижбулатов |
