
Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0.6


The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a new bug-fix release
in the 1.x stable series of the
core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.


The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.


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.

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.

This module contains elements for, among others:

  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


Other modules containing plugins are:


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)


Features of this release
    
      * adder: fix setting caps via the "caps" property
      * alsasink: don't use 100% CPU
      * appsrc: fix locking order
      * encodebin: sync muxer state with parent bin so encodebin can be added dynamically to pipeline
      * libvisual: fix improper video frame clear operation
      * pango: fix attribute list handling
      * playbin: fix playsink caps handling so that converters get plugged when needed
      * playbin: fix subtitleoverlay caps handling to avoid not-negotiated errors when plugins are missing
      * videoscale: Correct DAR and border calculations
      * ximagesink: fon't access structures of EMPTY caps
      * typefinding: fix y4m caps
      * build: fix build with automake 1.13

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 688476 : Seek in matroska file fails with not-negotiated error when using playsink
      * 688803 : playbin: converters don't work? not-negotiated error with non-1/1 PAR and ximagesink
      * 690937 : alsasink: playing video files with gst-launch causes CPU 100%
      * 691687 : GstImageType documentation is misleading
      * 693224 : appsrc deadlocks when setting pad caps before pushing buffer
      * 693372 : 1.0 branch is still using AM_CONFIG_HEADER
      * 693981 : subparse: fix bogus discontinuity detection if offset not set on buffers
      * 696019 : videoscale does not preserve DAR with add-borders=TRUE

==== Download ====

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

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

==== 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
    
      * Arnaud Vrac
      * Greg Rutz
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Jan Schole
      * Olivier Crête
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Sauer
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Wim Taymans
      * yanghuolin