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| Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.5.90 |
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| The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first 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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| * 728636 : textoverlay: cuts off right edge italicised text |
| * 737427 : appsink: Can't influence allocation query to satisfy user needs |
| * 742385 : video/audio encoders/decoders: need API to determine when to copy over GstMetas and when to drop them |
| * 746010 : oggdemux: doesn't go into pull mode even when queue2 ring-buffer is enabled |
| * 748635 : videorate: caps negotiation regression |
| * 750235 : [API] rtpbasedepayload: add process_rtp_packet() vfunc |
| * 751147 : appsink: pull_preroll returns wrong segment in the sample |
| * 751690 : playbin : remove unnecessary break |
| * 751883 : rtcpbuffer: Fix validation of packets with padding |
| * 751932 : GstVideoDecoder: Fix setting default pixel-aspect-ratio |
| * 752011 : video: Add boxed type for GstVideoInfo structure |
| * 752040 : gst-play: fix memory leak |
| * 752041 : ximagesink: fix navigation event leak |
| * 752042 : xvimagesink: fix pad memory leak |
| * 752043 : ximagesink: Post navigation events as message on the bus |
| * 752051 : GstVideoScaler: Initialised scaling functions to get rid of compiler messages |
| * 752059 : xvimagesink: refactor to use gst_pad_push_event |
| * 752111 : rtpbasedepayload: Fix minor leak of segment event |
| * 752156 : playsink: Require streamvolume interface for sink volumes for standardized behaviour |
| * 752228 : payloader/depayload: Wrong segment handling |
| * 752359 : playback-test: fix memory leak |
| * 752397 : playback-test: fix tag list leak |
| * 752400 : jsseek: fix tag list leak |
| * 752436 : typefind: Treat *.umx (Unreal Music Package) as audio/x-mod |
| * 752454 : jsseek: fix memory leaks |
| * 753001 : rtp buffer: NULL GstBuffer pointer being passed within gst_rtp_buffer_set_extension_data |
| * 753078 : oggdemux: Segfault on state-change intensive test |
| * 753088 : decodebin: fix deadend_details string leak |
| * 753360 : videodecoder: pushes gap before segment |
| * 753483 : videorate: add support for bayer formats |
| * 753701 : discoverer: Few trivial fixes in handling error cases |
| * 611157 : video: API to signal stereoscopic and multiview video |
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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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| * Brian Peters |
| * Edward Hervey |
| * George Kiagiadakis |
| * Hyunjun Ko |
| * Jan Schmidt |
| * Joan Pau Beltran |
| * Lubosz Sarnecki |
| * Luis de Bethencourt |
| * Marcin Kolny |
| * Myoungsun Lee |
| * Nicolas Dufresne |
| * Olivier Crête |
| * Rico Tzschichholz |
| * Sebastian Dröge |
| * Stefan Sauer |
| * Stian Selnes |
| * Thiago Santos |
| * Tim-Philipp Müller |
| * Tobias Mueller |
| * Ville Skyttä |
| * Vineeth T M |
| * Vineeth TM |
| * Vivia Nikolaidou |
| * Wim Taymans |
| * danny song |
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