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| Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.4.4 |
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| The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a bugfix release of the stable |
| 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new features on top |
| of the 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release |
| series of the GStreamer multimedia framework that contains new features. |
| The 1.4.x bugfix releases only contain important bugfixes compared to 1.4.0. |
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| Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided by the |
| GStreamer project for this release. |
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| The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API |
| or ABI compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed |
| in parallel with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing |
| 0.10.x installation. |
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| The stable 1.4.x release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x and |
| any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.0.x it contains |
| some new features and more intrusive changes that were considered too |
| risky as a bugfix. |
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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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| * 736969 : queue2: dead lock when buffering |
| * 737055 : audiosink: Setting URI on playbin at about-to-finish when playing AAC and using an alsasink causes delayed playback |
| * 737706 : videoencoder: release frame in finish_frame when no output state is configured |
| * 737742 : vorbisdec: Crashes when handling more than 8 channels |
| * 737752 : rtsp-client: crash when cleaning up session |
| * 738064 : decodebin: The “drained” signal is emitted multiple times, first time too early (~1s) |
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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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| * Aleix Conchillo Flaqué |
| * Andrei Sarakeev |
| * Aurélien Zanelli |
| * Heinrich Fink |
| * Sebastian Dröge |
| * Thiago Santos |
| * Tim-Philipp Müller |
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