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| Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.5.91 |
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| 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. |
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| Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately by |
| the GStreamer project. |
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| This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other |
| plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such |
| as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin, |
| decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer. |
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| This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element |
| writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for |
| their development. |
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| This module contains elements for, among others: |
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| device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia |
| containers: ogg |
| codecs: vorbis, theora |
| text: textoverlay, subparse |
| sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc |
| network: tcp |
| typefind functions |
| audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume |
| visualisation: libvisual |
| video processing: videoconvert, videoscale |
| high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer |
| libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video |
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| Other modules containing plugins are: |
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| 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-plugins-bad |
| contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the |
| rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation |
| and/or unit tests |
| gst-libav |
| contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg) |
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| Bugs fixed in this release |
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| * 734617 : videodecoder: Call the child class finish() function on stream changes |
| * 740387 : [REGRESSION] videoscale: The port to the new scaling API broke some file playback |
| * 744806 : audiodecoder: early call to drain() causes segment event to be sent before caps |
| * 753817 : subparse: SIGSEGV with abnormal file |
| * 753850 : gl: overlay composition negotation with the sink fails |
| * 754199 : audiobasesink: patch for missing/incorrect documentation about the custom slaving method |
| * 754235 : playsinkconvertbin: regression after removing accept-caps handler |
| * 754429 : basetextoverlay: crash in basetextoverlay for padding greater than video size |
| * 754597 : appsrc: fails to push the caps at the start of the data flow when configured in seekable/random-access mode |
| * 754630 : libs: " ll " printf modifier isn't available on MinGW |
| * 754755 : playbin: Compiler warning with 64bit Windows target MinGW, cast to pointer from integer of different size |
| * 754808 : video: missing alpha flag for some formats |
| * 754973 : xvimagesink: fix error leak when context creation fails |
| * 755098 : uridecodebin: Smooth Streaming's media type does not match |
| * 755143 : audiosink, multisocketsink: Fix error leak during failures |
| * 755198 : basetextoverlay: trivial fix in debug message |
| * 755201 : playback-test: Dont free null array on exit |
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| ==== Download ==== |
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| You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download |
| directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/ |
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| The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at |
| http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/ |
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| ==== Homepage ==== |
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| The project's website is 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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| Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. |
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| For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the |
| gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details). |
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| There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network. |
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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 (see link above). |
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| Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should |
| subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. |
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| Contributors to this release |
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| * Carlos Rafael Giani |
| * Christophe Fergeau |
| * Eunhae Choi |
| * George Kiagiadakis |
| * Havard Graff |
| * Kouhei Sutou |
| * Philippe Normand |
| * Prashant Gotarne |
| * Ravi Kiran K N |
| * Sebastian Dröge |
| * Thiago Santos |
| * Tim-Philipp Müller |
| * Vikram Fugro |
| * Vineeth T M |
| * Vineeth TM |
| * Wim Taymans |
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