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Jan Schmidt8a1442c2006-02-20 19:12:10 +00002GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.1 "Slimy - yet satisfying"
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Thomas Vander Sticheleb8ebf1b2005-12-05 18:01:48 +00005
6The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
7in the 0.10.x stable series of the
Thomas Vander Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +00008GStreamer Bad Plug-ins.
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Thomas Vander Sticheleb8ebf1b2005-12-05 18:01:48 +000011The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
Thomas Vander Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000012It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
13It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
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Thomas Vander Stichele7f57fad2004-03-16 12:25:45 +000015
Thomas Vander Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000016
17"That an accusation?"
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Thomas Vander Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000020No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
21cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B.
22They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
23at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
24to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
25showdown.
26
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28Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
29patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
30steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
31kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
32You dig.
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35This module contains a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the
36rest. 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
38maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
39upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
40depending on the other factors.
41If the plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
42problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
43New contributors can start here for things to work on.
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45
46Other modules containing plug-ins are:
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49gst-plugins-base
50contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
51gst-plugins-good
52contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
53gst-plugins-ugly
54contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
55 distributors
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57
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60Features of this release
61
Thomas Vander Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000062 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
63 * Threadsafe design and API
Jan Schmidt8a1442c2006-02-20 19:12:10 +000064 * 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 Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +000073
74Bugs fixed in this release
75
Jan Schmidt8a1442c2006-02-20 19:12:10 +000076 * 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...
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86Download
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Thomas Vander Stichelec3202022005-09-06 14:05:50 +000088You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
89http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +000090
91GStreamer Homepage
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93More details can be found on the project's website:
94http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
95
96Support and Bugs
97
98We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
99http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
100
101Developers
102
103CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
104All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
105Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
106subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
107will create more lists as necessary.
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110Applications
Thomas Vander Stichelece0095d2004-03-09 18:35:03 +0000111
112Contributors to this release
113
Thomas Vander Sticheleb8ebf1b2005-12-05 18:01:48 +0000114 * Andy Wingo
Jan Schmidt8a1442c2006-02-20 19:12:10 +0000115 * 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 Sticheleb8ebf1b2005-12-05 18:01:48 +0000126 * Tim-Philipp Müller
Jan Schmidt8a1442c2006-02-20 19:12:10 +0000127 * Wim Taymans
Thomas Vander Stichele9a3330f2004-11-25 18:55:57 +0000128