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Release notes for GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0.0
The GStreamer project is pleased to announce the very first release of the
new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
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.
Major improvements include: more flexible memory handling; extensible and
negotiable metadata for buffers; caps negotiation and renegotiation mechanisms,
decoupled from buffer allocation; improved caps renegotiation; automatic
re-sending of state for dynamic pipelines; reworked and more fine-grained pad
probing; simpler and more descriptive audio and video caps; more efficient
allocation of buffers, events and other mini objects; improved timestamp
handling; support for gobject-inspection-based language bindings; countless
other improvements.
Most of these changes involve the GStreamer plugin API. The application API
has changed comparatively little, and most applications should be fairly easy
to port to the new API. There is a porting guide available.
The GStreamer team would like to thank everyone who helped bring this release
about, whether by submitting patches, reporting bugs, testing, sponsoring
development, attending hackfests, or simply supplying moral support.
This is the end of a long development process, but also the beginning of
one. This release does not mark the pinnacle of perfection, but the point
where the team is content with the API and stability and quality of the code
base in general, especially compared to the old 0.10 series.
There will be bugs to fix, and starting from this release there will be
distinct bug-fixing and feature development cycles, with the goal of getting
bug-fixes out quicker and unencumbered by other more risky changes. See
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/ReleasePlanning/RoadMap
for a tentative road map and possible schedule.
=== Module
"Such ingratitude. After all the times I've saved your life."
A collection of plugins you'd want to have right next to you on the
battlefield. Shooting sharp and making no mistakes, these plugins have it
all: good looks, good code, and good licensing. Documented and dressed up
in tests. If you're looking for a role model to base your own plugin on,
here it is.
If you find a plot hole or a badly lip-synced line of code in them,
let us know - it is a matter of honour for us to ensure Blondie doesn't look
like he's been walking 100 miles through the desert without water.
This module contains a set of plugins that we consider to have good quality
code, correct functionality, our preferred license (LGPL for the plugin code,
LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library).
We believe distributors can safely ship these plugins.
People writing elements should base their code on these elements.
Other modules containing plugins are:
gst-plugins-base : a basic set of well-supported plugins
gst-plugins-ugly : a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems
for distributors
gst-plugins-bad : a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
rigorous quality testing we expect
gst-libav : a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
==== Download
You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
==== GStreamer Homepage
More details can be found on the project's website:
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
or
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bugs/
==== Developers
GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be
cloned from there. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and
applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list and/or pop into
our #gstreamer IRC channel on Freenode.
==== Contributors to this release
Alban Browaeys
Aleix Conchillo Flaque
Alessandro Decina
Alexander Saprykin
Alexey Fisher
Andoni Morales Alastruey
Andrej Gelenberg
Antoine Tremblay
Anton Belka
Anton Novikov
Arun Raghavan
Bastien Nocera
Branko Subasic
Chris Pankow
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Daniela
David Corvoysier
David Schleef
Dominique Leuenberger
Edward Hervey
Gary Ching-Pang Lin
Hans de Goede
Havard Graff
Huacai Chen
idc-dragon
Jan Schmidt
Javier Jardón
Jayakrishnan M
Jens Georg
John Ogness
Jonas Holmberg
Josep Torra
Leo Singer
Luis de Bethencourt
Marc Leeman
Maria Giovanna Chiossa
Mark Nauwelaerts
Martin Ertsaas
Mart Raudsepp
Matej Knopp
Mathias Hasselmann
Matthias Clasen
Michael Jones
Michael Rubinstein
Michael Smith
Mohammed Sameer
Nicola Murino
Nicolas Dufresne
Oleksij Rempel (Alexey Fisher)
Olivier Crête
Pascal Buhler
Patricia Muscalu
Peteris Krisjanis
Peter Seiderer
Philip Jägenstedt
Philippe Normand
Raimo Järvi
Ralph Giles
René Stadler
Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
Robert Swain
Ross Burton
Sebastian Dröge
Sebastian Rasmussen
Sjoerd Simons
Sreerenj Balachandran
Stefan Sauer
Stig Sandnes
Thiago Santos
Thomas Vander Stichele
Tim-Philipp Müller
Tuukka Pasanen
uraeus
Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
Vincent Penquerc'h
Vincent Untz
Wim Taymans
Xavi Artigas
Yaakov Selkowitz
Youness Alaoui
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