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| Release notes for GStreamer 1.8.1 |
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| The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first bugfix release in the stable |
| 1.8 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 1.8.0. For a |
| full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. |
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| See /releases/1.8/ |
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| This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. |
| For actual media playback, you will need other modules. |
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| gst-plugins-base |
| contains a basic set of well-supported plugins |
| 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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| * 727105 : doc: Drop reference to osssink / esdsink / etc, from gst-launch-1.0 man page |
| * 741001 : GST_DEBUG categories are missing when using --gst-debug-help |
| * 761912 : gstpad: Fix race between gst_element_remove_pad and state change |
| * 762995 : queue: Use full running time for level calculation |
| * 763753 : valve: don't send sticky events as a direct response to upstream events |
| * 763757 : multiqueue: Make sure mq- > percent remains valid after modifying high-percent value |
| * 765096 : baseparse: When initializing DTS from PTS, remember that we did so |
| * 765260 : baseparse: regression with aac streams |
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| ==== Download ==== |
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| You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download |
| directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ |
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| The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at |
| http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/ |
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| ==== Homepage ==== |
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| The project's website is https://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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| * Carlos Rafael Giani |
| * Edward Hervey |
| * Havard Graff |
| * Sebastian Dröge |
| * Stian Selnes |
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