
Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.5.91


The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate for the
stable 1.6 release series. The 1.6 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The final 1.6.0 release is planned
in the next few days unless any major bugs are found.


Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately by
the GStreamer project.


"That an accusation?"


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.


Other modules containing plugins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
    distributors
gst-libav
contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)


Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 751508 : tsdemux: jerky sound on some multicast streams (regression)
      * 752480 : dashdemux: negative values for r attribute in S node are not supported
      * 753152 : pcapparse wrong magic when used with identity sync=1
      * 753196 : audio/videoaggregator:  Assumes that running time starts at seeking position after a seek (but it starts at 0 for flushing seeks)
      * 753344 : hlsdemux: Fix playback of live streams
      * 753758 : ios: Does not shut down context and navigation GMainLoop
      * 753805 : compositor/videoaggregator: Crashes because of invalid video info
      * 753812 : qt: Checks for Qt5 don't require new enough version.
      * 753813 : dashdemux: replace use of xmlNodeDump as it is described as a deprecated function
      * 753818 : hlsdemux: deadlock on stop
      * 753820 : video-bad: fix build failure
      * 753822 : assrender: do not crash when video frame mapping fails
      * 753837 : dtsdec: overwritten init value
      * 753881 : hls/m3u8: make check fails for hlsdemux_m3u8 due to floating point rounding error
      * 753905 : android emulator returns NULL for GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION
      * 753913 : caopengllayersink: Don't chain up to parent's query handling twice for DRAIN query
      * 753915 : audiomixer: Remove duplicated word in comment
      * 753937 : dashdemux: don't meddle with the class struct from an instance
      * 753944 : curl: configure check for netinet/ip.h doesn't work on FreeBSD
      * 754024 : codecparsers: Various HEVC codecparser fixes
      * 754047 : glupload: Loses overlay meta when using raw uploader
      * 754107 : compositor: Inputs are " obscured " when they aren't
      * 754108 : qmlsink: Ensure that at least one windowing system is available
      * 754122 : h265parse/h264parse: Crashes instead of returning not-negotiated
      * 754222 : adaptivedemux: Timestamping of multi-period streams is not correct
      * 754291 : videoaggregator: Compositor fails with " reason not-negotiated " when changing the pixel-aspect-ratio during runtime
      * 754465 : compositor: Negotiation failure with ARGB64
      * 754504 : vtdec: invalid colorimetry and generating greenish output
      * 754528 : decklinkvideosink: Properly handle pipelines where the running time does not start around 0
      * 754576 : compositor: input stream is wrongly considered obscured in some cases (regression)
      * 754666 : decklinkvideosink: Consider pipeline latency when scheduling frames
      * 754668 : mpdparser: fix incorrect start value scaling
      * 754686 : adaptivedemux: statistics message name macro is unprefixed
      * 754732 : gl: (ubuntu) error: conflicting types for 'GLsizeiptr' ( & more)
      * 754756 : directsoundsrc: Compiler warning with 64bit Windows MinGW, cast from pointer to integer of different size
      * 754757 : gl/eagl: Don't make context uncurrent just to make it current again in the next line
      * 754819 : opusenc: critical/warning when dumping dots
      * 754834 : codecparsers: hevc:  Fixes in scaling list value and NumPocTocalCurr value calculation
      * 754851 : aggregator: Use the whole aggregator latency for the queue size, not just the latency property
      * 755042 : dashdemux: sidx parsing crashes at end of stream
      * 755047 : mssdemux/dashdemux: live playback regression
      * 755049 : intervideosrc doesn't render the preroll frame (in paused state)
      * 755059 : opusdec: negotiation regression
      * 755111 : Regression: glimagesink 3D video handling
      * 755113 : Regression: dvbsuboverlay negotiates invalid caps
      * 755140 : gstgl: Fix GError leaks during failures
      * 755142 : avdtputil: fix GError memory leak during failures
      * 755156 : vtdec: resizing glimagesink results in a not-negotiated error

==== Download ====

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

The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/

==== Homepage ====

The project's website is 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

Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.

For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).

There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.

==== Developers ====

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
from there (see link above).

Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.

        
Contributors to this release
    
      * Alex Ashley
      * Arnaud Vrac
      * Athanasios Oikonomou
      * Ben Browitt
      * Carlos Rafael Giani
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Justin Kim
      * Koop Mast
      * Kouhei Sutou
      * Luis de Bethencourt
      * Matthew Waters
      * Miguel París Díaz
      * Nicolas Dufresne
      * Nirbheek Chauhan
      * Olivier Crête
      * Philippe Normand
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sreerenj Balachandran
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thibault Saunier
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vanessa Chipirrás Navalón
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Vineeth T M
      * XuGuangxin
      * hoonhee.lee
      * lyb