Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
Jan Schmidt | 8a1442c | 2006-02-20 19:12:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.1 "Slimy - yet satisfying" |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | |
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Thomas Vander Stichele | b8ebf1b | 2005-12-05 18:01:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| 6 | The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release |
| 7 | in the 0.10.x stable series of the |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | GStreamer Bad Plug-ins. |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
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Thomas Vander Stichele | b8ebf1b | 2005-12-05 18:01:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series. |
| 13 | It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series. |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
Thomas Vander Stichele | 7f57fad | 2004-03-16 12:25:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | |
| 17 | "That an accusation?" |
Thomas Vander Stichele | 7f57fad | 2004-03-16 12:25:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | |
| 19 | |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to |
| 21 | cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B. |
| 22 | They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but |
| 23 | at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel |
| 24 | to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final |
| 25 | showdown. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights, |
| 29 | patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can |
| 30 | steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two |
| 31 | kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig. |
| 32 | You dig. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | |
| 35 | This module contains a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the |
| 36 | rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something |
| 37 | - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live |
| 38 | maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be |
| 39 | upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly, |
| 40 | depending on the other factors. |
| 41 | If the plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the |
| 42 | problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you. |
| 43 | New contributors can start here for things to work on. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Other modules containing plug-ins are: |
| 47 | |
| 48 | |
| 49 | gst-plugins-base |
| 50 | contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins |
| 51 | gst-plugins-good |
| 52 | contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license |
| 53 | gst-plugins-ugly |
| 54 | contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for |
| 55 | distributors |
| 56 | |
| 57 | |
Thomas Vander Stichele | 7f57fad | 2004-03-16 12:25:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | |
| 60 | Features of this release |
| 61 | |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series |
| 63 | * Threadsafe design and API |
Jan Schmidt | 8a1442c | 2006-02-20 19:12:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | * Lots of fixes for the QT/MOV demuxer, including |
| 65 | restoring the ability to play web streams, and more |
| 66 | codecs supported |
| 67 | * AAC decoder fixes |
| 68 | * MMS source fixes |
| 69 | * DirectFB plugin updated |
| 70 | * New plugins ported to 0.10: swfdec, XVid, dtsdec, glimagesink |
| 71 | * New libneon based http source filter |
| 72 | * APE tag reader moved to gst-plugins-good module |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | |
| 74 | Bugs fixed in this release |
| 75 | |
Jan Schmidt | 8a1442c | 2006-02-20 19:12:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | * 303167 : Add bzip2 support |
| 77 | * 322973 : [wavpack] erroneous sampling rates range |
| 78 | * 326524 : Support for Indeo 3-encoded QuickTime files |
| 79 | * 327133 : [qtdemux] QuickTime with 8-bit audio |
| 80 | * 328854 : AAC+ stream not working with FAAD plugin |
| 81 | * 330089 : [bz2] Wrong mimetype and no typefinding |
| 82 | * 331302 : bz2 plugin source files lack copyright notices |
| 83 | * 331543 : crash on iTunes MPEG v4 AAC-LC files |
| 84 | * 331582 : [qtdemux] protect log statement against invalid memory ac... |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | |
| 86 | Download |
| 87 | |
Thomas Vander Stichele | c320202 | 2005-09-06 14:05:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 88 | You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory: |
| 89 | http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/ |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | |
| 91 | GStreamer Homepage |
| 92 | |
| 93 | More details can be found on the project's website: |
| 94 | http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ |
| 95 | |
| 96 | Support and Bugs |
| 97 | |
| 98 | We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests: |
| 99 | http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer |
| 100 | |
| 101 | Developers |
| 102 | |
| 103 | CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org. |
| 104 | All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there. |
| 105 | Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should |
| 106 | subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we |
| 107 | will create more lists as necessary. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | |
| 110 | Applications |
Thomas Vander Stichele | ce0095d | 2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | |
| 112 | Contributors to this release |
| 113 | |
Thomas Vander Stichele | b8ebf1b | 2005-12-05 18:01:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | * Andy Wingo |
Jan Schmidt | 8a1442c | 2006-02-20 19:12:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | * Christian Schaller |
| 116 | * David Schleef |
| 117 | * Edgard Lima |
| 118 | * Edward Hervey |
| 119 | * Fabrizio Gennari |
| 120 | * Jan Schmidt |
| 121 | * Julien MOUTTE |
| 122 | * Lutz Mueller |
| 123 | * Sebastien Moutte |
| 124 | * Stefan Kost |
| 125 | * Thomas Vander Stichele |
Thomas Vander Stichele | b8ebf1b | 2005-12-05 18:01:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | * Tim-Philipp Müller |
Jan Schmidt | 8a1442c | 2006-02-20 19:12:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | * Wim Taymans |
Thomas Vander Stichele | 9a3330f | 2004-11-25 18:55:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | |