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| Release notes for GStreamer 1.8.3 |
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| The GStreamer team is proud to announce the third 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.x. For a |
| full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. |
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| See /releases/1.8/ for the full release notes. |
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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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| * 739289 : basesink: Stepping incorrectly updates start time when stepping in PAUSED, causing step amount to be calculated wrongly |
| * 762330 : Probe only flush events, is not possible |
| * 767413 : tee: Properly handle return value when only 1 pad |
| * 767688 : queue2: fix crash deleting current region for small ring buffers |
| * 768141 : bus: chain up constructed. |
| * 768326 : Building GStreamer for Android fails on Windows (new since 1.8.2) |
| * 768450 : pad: check caps not NULL before referring |
| * 768649 : queue2: Force final average input rate calculation on EOS |
| * 769802 : queue2: Post buffering messages earlier in ringbuffer mode |
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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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| * Edward Hervey |
| * Guillaume Desmottes |
| * Jan Schmidt |
| * Linus Svensson |
| * Miguel París Díaz |
| * Nicolas Dufresne |
| * Ray Strode |
| * Sebastian Dröge |
| * Thiago Santos |
| * Tim-Philipp Müller |
| * Vincent Penquerc'h |
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