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| Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0.2 |
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| The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix release |
| in the 1.x stable series of the |
| core of the GStreamer streaming media framework. |
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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 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. |
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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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| Features of this release |
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| * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series |
| * alsa: fix probing of supported formats, and advertise non-native-endianness formats as fallback |
| * audiobasesink: properly handle GAP events (fixing some isses with e.g. certain DVD menus) |
| * audioconvert: try harder to not convert or to preserve input format precision |
| * audiodecoder: leak fixes and refcounting fixes |
| * audioresample: re-enable the SSE/SSE2 code paths for better performance |
| * riff: fix paletted RGB formats and msvideo mapping |
| * rtsp: make formatting and parsing of range floating-point values locale-independent |
| * playbin: streamsynchronizer fixes, esp. for handling corner-cases near EOS |
| * tcpserver{sink,src}: add 'current-port' property and signal actually used port |
| * videoconvert: fix handling of paletted RGB formats |
| * videodecoder: don't leak message strings when error is not fatal |
| * videodecoder: finetune missing timestamp estimating |
| * videotestsrc: add palette for paletted RGB formats |
| * vorbistag: fix writing of image tags into vorbis comments |
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| Bugs fixed in this release |
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| * 580093 : tcpserversink,src: add 'current-port' property and signal actually used port when port=0 was set |
| * 680904 : alsasink: no supported formats detected with using USB sound card on big-endian system |
| * 683098 : videodecoder: log failure message if acquire_buffer failed |
| * 684411 : rtsp: range in SDP formatted according to locale |
| * 685273 : Pre-rolling on GAP events doesn't work properly for audio sinks |
| * 685711 : audio, video: update docs for virtual functions that require chaining up |
| * 685938 : [decodebin] Issues with group switching algorithm |
| * 686081 : adder: all unit tests crash now after collectpads changes |
| * 686298 : Cannot decode some AVI files with Microsoft Video 1 |
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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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| * Alexandre Relange |
| * Andoni Morales Alastruey |
| * Carlos Rafael Giani |
| * David Corvoysier |
| * Josep Torra |
| * Mark Nauwelaerts |
| * Sebastian Dröge |
| * Thiago Santos |
| * Tim-Philipp Müller |
| * Wim Taymans |
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