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| GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.9.3 "Porthos" |
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| The GStreamer team is petrified to announce a new release |
| in the 0.9.x development series of the |
| GStreamer Bad Plug-ins. |
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| The 0.9.x series is a development series and not recommended for end users. |
| It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series. |
| It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series. |
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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 plug-ins 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. |
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| 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. |
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| This module contains a set of plug-ins 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 plug-ins 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 plug-ins are: |
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| gst-plugins-base |
| contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins |
| gst-plugins-good |
| contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license |
| gst-plugins-ugly |
| contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for |
| distributors |
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| Features of this release |
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| * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series |
| * Threadsafe design and API |
| * ported gsm, tta, sdlvideosink |
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| Bugs fixed in this release |
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| Download |
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| You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory: |
| http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/ |
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| GStreamer Homepage |
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| More details can be found on the project's website: |
| 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: |
| http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer |
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| Developers |
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| 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. |
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| Applications |
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| Contributors to this release |
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| * Arwed v. Merkatz |
| * Christian Schaller |
| * Edgard Lima |
| * Flavio Oliveira |
| * Wim Taymans |
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