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| Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.6.1 |
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| The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first bugfix release in the stable |
| 1.6 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! |
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| This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.6.0. For a |
| full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. |
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| See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ |
| for the full release notes. |
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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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| * 752705 : rtpbuffer: Add map flag to skip padding |
| * 754459 : decodebin: fix event leak with validate.hls.playback.play_15s.hls_bibbop scenario |
| * 754567 : video: gst_video_calculate_display_ratio() should have out parameter |
| * 754980 : audiobasesink: audio skipping when playing it repeatedly. |
| * 755494 : gst-plugins-base fails to build with --with-pkg-config-path |
| * 755770 : decodebin: Free unlinked chains at time of switching chains |
| * 755867 : playsink: fix leak of audio sink |
| * 755875 : subparse: < / i > should be handled like < /i > |
| * 756611 : playbin: Leak of playbin on errors from the source element |
| * 756893 : video: Missing closing parenthesis in video overlay composition cast macros |
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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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| * Guillaume Desmottes |
| * Matthew Waters |
| * Pavel Bludov |
| * Perry Hung |
| * Rajat Verma |
| * Sebastian Dröge |
| * Stian Selnes |
| * Tim-Philipp Müller |
| * Vineeth TM |
| * Wim Taymans |
| * eunhae choi |
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