Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.25 "Standard disclaimers apply"

The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release

in the 0.10.x stable series of the

GStreamer Base Plug-ins.

The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.

It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.

It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.

This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other

plugins, and helper libraries.

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.

This module contains elements for, among others:

  device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia

  containers: ogg

  codecs: vorbis, theora

  text: textoverlay, subparse

  sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc

  network: tcp

  typefind

  audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume

  visualisation: libvisual

  video processing: ffmpegcolorspace

  aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin

Other modules containing plug-ins are:

gst-plugins-good

contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license

gst-plugins-ugly

contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for

    distributors

gst-plugins-bad

contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the

    rigorous quality testing we expect

Features of this release

      * Add per-stream volume controls

      * Theora 1.0 and Y444 and Y42B format support

      * Improve audio capture timing

      * GObject introspection support

      * Improve audio output startup

      * RTSP improvements

      * Use pango-cairo instead of pangoft2

      * Allow cdda://(device#)?track URI scheme in cddabasesrc

      * Support interlaced content in videoscale and ffmpegcolorspacee

      * Many other bug fixes and improvements

Bugs fixed in this release

      * 595401 : gobject assertion and null access to volume instance in playbin

      * 563828 : [decodebin2] Complains about loops in the graph when demuxer output requires another demuxer

      * 591677 : Easy codec installation is not working

      * 588523 : smarter sink selection in playbin2

      * 590146 : adder regressions

      * 321532 : [cddabasesrc] Support device setting in cdda:// URI

      * 340887 : add pangocairo textoverlay plugin.

      * 397419 : [oggdemux] ogm video with subtitles stuck on first frame

      * 556537 : [PATCH] typefind: more flexible MPEG4 start code recognition

      * 559049 : gstcheck.c:76:F:general:test_state_changes_* failure: GST_IS_CLOCK(clock) assertion fails

      * 567660 : [API] need a stream volume interface for sinks that do volume control

      * 567928 : Make videorate work with a live source

      * 571610 : [playbin] Scale of volume property is not documented

      * 583255 : [playbin2] deadlock when disabling visualisations

      * 586180 : RTSP improvements

      * 588717 : [oggmux] gst_caps_unref() warning if not linked downstream

      * 588761 : [videoscale] Needs special support for interlaced content

      * 588915 : audioresample's output offset counter's initialization could maybe be improved

      * 589095 : [appsrc] clarify documentation on caps and linkage

      * 589574 : [typefind] incorrect sdp file detection

      * 590243 : [videoscale] Claims to support MAX width/height

      * 590425 : Slaved alsasrc clock with slave-method=re-timestamp not usable for RTP audio

      * 590856 : [decodebin2] triggers assertion failure on NULL caps

      * 591207 : totem does display the following subtitle srt file.

      * 591357 : gst-plugins-base git won't build due to warning in gstrtspconnection.c

      * 591577 : [playbin2] Incorrect error message string

      * 591664 : [playbin2] after seeking, srt subtitles don't resync correctly

      * 591934 : timestamp drift in audioresample

      * 592544 : Remove regex.h check

      * 592657 : [appsink] Blocks after entering on pause state

      * 592864 : deadlocks from recent inputselector/streamselector change

      * 592884 : [playbin2] g_object_get increases refcount by 2 and therefore leaves memleak

      * 593035 : gdp doesn't preserve fields of the buffers put into the caps' streamheader

      * 593284 : basertppayloader takes time in instance init

      * 594020 : Totem don't play videos from ssh remote host

      * 594094 : Playback Error playing Midi file

      * 594136 : [alsasink] Regression from 0.10.23 -- element reuse doesn't work

      * 594165 : [theoraenc] Implement support for new formats

      * 594256 : improved slave-skew resynch mechanism

      * 594258 : missing break in rtcpbuffer

      * 594275 : Add cast to navigation to fix compiler warning

      * 594623 : Expose playsink as a fully-fledged element

      * 594732 : parse error

      * 594757 : build fails due to warning in gstbasertppayload.c

      * 594993 : [introspection] pkg-config file madness

      * 594994 : [streamvolume] Add get_type function to the documentation

      * 595454 : [cddabasesrc] uri format change breaks rhythmbox

      * 545807 : [baseaudiosink] audible crack when starting the pipeline

API changed in this release

- API additions:

* gst_rtsp_connection_create_from_fd()

* gst_rtsp_connection_set_http_mode()

* gst_rtsp_watch_write_data()

* gst_rtsp_watch_send_message()

* GstBaseRTPPayload::perfect-rtptime

* GstBaseRTPAudioPayload::gst_base_rtp_audio_payload_flush()

* GstVideoSinkClass::show_frame()

* GstVideoSink:show-preroll-frame

* GST_MIXER_TRACK_READONLY

* GST_MIXER_TRACK_WRITEONLY

* GstStreamVolume interface

Download

You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/

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

Developers

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there.

Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should

subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we

will create more lists as necessary.

Applications

Contributors to this release

      * Arnout Vandecappelle

      * Benjamin Gaignard

      * Benjamin Otte

      * Christian F.K. Schaller

      * David Schleef

      * Edward Hervey

      * Eero Nurkkala

      * Havard Graff

      * Håvard Graff

      * Jan Schmidt

      * John Millikin

      * Jonas Holmberg

      * Jonathan Matthew

      * Josep Torra

      * Kipp Cannon

      * Marc-André Lureau

      * Mark Nauwelaerts

      * Mart Raudsepp

      * Michael Smith

      * Olivier Crête

      * Peter Kjellerstedt

      * Philip Jägenstedt

      * René Stadler

      * Sebastian Dröge

      * Siarhei Siamashka

      * Stefan Kost

      * Tim-Philipp Müller

      * Wim Taymans

      * Young-Ho Cha

      * Руслан Ижбулатов