New releases of GStreamer Good and Bad plugin collections

[Jan Schmidt <thaytan noraisin net>]

The GStreamer team is proud to announce new releases of the Good and Bad
plugins collections in the 0.10 GStreamer stable release series. 

There's lots of improvements, some new plugins and loads of bug fixes.

Release notes for both modules attached.

For developers, this means the modules are unfrozen again.


Cheers,
Jan.

-- 
Jan Schmidt thaytan noraisin net

<vickster> we are going to watch red dwarf. i am so excited and tired.

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Good Plug-ins�0.10.3 "Desplazado"
        


The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
in the 0.10.x stable series of the
GStreamer Good 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.



"Such ingratitude.  After all the times I've saved your life."


A collection of plug-ins you'd want to have right next to you on the
battlefield.  Shooting sharp and making no mistakes, these plug-ins 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 plug-in 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 plug-ins that we consider to have good quality
  code, correct functionality, our preferred license (LGPL for the plug-in
  code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library).
We believe distributors can safely ship these plug-ins.
People writing elements should base their code on these elements.


Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
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
    
      * Annodex/CMML support
      * RTSP and RTP enhancements
      * HAL configured audio device support
      * FLAC, Matroska, AVI, WAV, ID3, APE, DV and JPEG plugin improvements
      * Recognise SSA/ASS and USF subtitles in Matroska files
      * Fixes for ESD and SunAudio output plugins
      * More uniform plugin descriptions
      * IceCast metadata reading plugin added
      * New plugins ported from 0.8: OSX audio, AVI muxer, X-Windows input, WAV encoder, Gdk-Pixbuf image decoder, Smoke decoder, Video colour balance
      * Lots of bug fixes

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 335067 : RTSP src not working with WMServer servers
      * 333657 : Replacing icy demuxing in gnomevfssrc
      * 329106 : HAL sound device wrapper plugins
      * 337749 : totem (gstreamer) crashes when playing an avi file
      * 330885 : avidemux does not handle eos at end of seek-region
      * 337364 : faulty GObject macros
      * 337625 : [patch] Streaming support for wavparse
      * 150363 : [pngdec] doesn't handle grayscale or paletted
      * 154744 : Time slider does not work with avi videos from Cannon SD100
      * 161712 : [auparse] .au files don't play in playbin
      * 313266 : [wavparse] will not play DTS stream in malformed WAV
      * 319183 : rtspsrc filter sometimes uses an odd port for rtp
      * 319986 : annodex decoding and encoding support
      * 323721 : [id3demux] read in replaygain information from RVA2 frame...
      * 323880 :  " Seek in ready " for dvdemux
      * 325191 : problem with auparse or mulawdec, choppy esd playback
      * 326160 : videobalance not ported to new GstVideoFilter
      * 327658 :  " Seek in ready " support for wavparse plugin
      * 328327 : gst-plugins-good fail to compile with gcc 4.1
      * 329107 : Profile support for gconfaudiosink
      * 330239 : Crash playing any song from a particular album over rhyth...
      * 330678 : Unable to play .fli files
      * 331253 : Critical warnings when using cddacdiosrc
      * 331368 : Gstreamer doesn't recognise tags
      * 331385 : [alpha] state change function returns a constant
      * 331672 : Another file that gstreamer can't read the tags on
      * 331905 : [jpeg] smokedec not ported
      * 331917 : [pngdec] does not support files with png streams
      * 332031 : [PATCH] avimux ported to 0.10
      * 332547 : [wavparse] does not support multichannel wavs
      * 333070 : [id3demux] reads unicode tags incorrectly where .8 did it...
      * 333302 : [apedemux] some WavPack files with APE tags fail to play ...
      * 333392 : [sunaudio] unused variables break CVS build with -Werror
      * 333512 : [PATCH] Fix gst_pad_new_from_template (gst_static_pad_tem...
      * 333624 : invalid get_times implementation in gstdynudpsink
      * 333784 : [patch] unref the result of gst_pad_get_parent
      * 334083 : [jpegdec] wrong durations set on buffers after seeking in...
      * 334522 : avi of mpeg4 video and adpcm audio from digital camera re...
      * 334732 : [id3demux] mp3 fails to play because typefinding thinks i...
      * 334995 : [goom] zoom filter leaked
      * 335231 : [wavparse] incorrect way to calculate seek position with ...
      * 335755 : rhythmbox import crasher - png?
      * 335858 : Video playback out of sync
      * 335958 : [speexenc] doesn't work
      * 336110 : move taglib-based ID3 muxer to -good
      * 336602 : plugins need better/univied descriptions
      * 336756 : move ximagesrc to gst-plugins-good
      * 336889 : [avidemux] index creation might fail with some non-indexe...
      * 336904 : Problem playing some AVI file when splitting large chunks...
      * 337033 : [speex] can't seek in speex-encoded audio
      * 337183 : [matroska] " caps not real subset " when playing audio files
      * 337294 : AVI files downloaded from vidoe.google.com won't play
      * 337421 : [sunaudiosink] some fixes
      * 337609 : [flacdec] can't play .flac files where header says total_...
      * 338290 : [flacdec] segment seek not supported
      * 338713 : [id3demux] TCO genre tags (id3v2.2) don't get read by gst...
      * 338715 : [shout2send] fix crash on error and tags received before ...
      * 338716 : [wavenc] " not negotiated " error with CVS core
      * 338810 : [matroskademux] blocks on segmenting seek (and other seek...
      * 339446 : [matroska] can't play file if details come before type in...
      * 339451 : [matroska] enhancement for VfW compatibility cases
      * 339678 : [matroskamux] wrong timestamps of B-frames
      * 340346 : [matroskamux] blocks upon muxing video and vorbis-audio
      * 319884 : rtpamrdec discards non-transmitted frames

Download

You can find source releases of gst-plugins-good in the download directory:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/

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

CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
All code is in CVS and can be checked out 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
    
      * Alessandro Decina
      * Andy Wingo
      * Benjamin Pineau)
      * Brian Cameron
      * Christian Schaller
      * Edgard Lima
      * Edward Hervey
      * Fabrizio Gennari
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Josef Zlomek
      * Julien MOUTTE
      * J�lleter
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Michael Dominic K.
      * Michael Smith
      * Philippe Kalaf
      * Philippe Valembois
      * Ryan Lortie (desrt)
      * Sebastien Moutte
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp M�      * Tommi My�en
      * Wim Taymans
      * Wouter Paesen).
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali
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GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins�0.10.3 "Petition to request permission"
        


The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
in the 0.10.x stable series of the
GStreamer Bad 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.



"That an accusation?"


No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B.
They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
showdown.


Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
You dig.


This module contains a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the
rest.  They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
- be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
maintainer, or some actual wide use.  If the blanks are filled in they might be
upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
depending on the other factors.
If the plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
New contributors can start here for things to work on.


Other modules containing plug-ins are:


gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
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



  
Features of this release
    
      * FAAD/AAC decoder improvements
      * Better QuickTime support
      * Plugins ported from 0.8: modplug, v4l2src, Musicbrainz TRM
      * New plugins: Xing muxer, libsoundtouch, AMR-WB, theora-exp
      * Musepack decoder improved
      * libneon based http input now supports iradio mode
      * More uniform plugin descriptions
      * Many bug fixes

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 333307 : AmrWB Plugin
      * 330317 : New xingmux element  for writing Xing headers
      * 304795 : [ximagesrc] port to 0.9 [PATCH]
      * 154906 : [qtdemux] A/V Synch problem + crackling sound
      * 167129 : [qtdemux] eats last chunk
      * 173007 : [faad] Failed to decode buffer: Channel coupling not yet ...
      * 302606 : [qtdemux] Movie playback too fast (quicktime mov, H.263 c...
      * 321351 : extracted AAC output is played too slow
      * 324082 : [qtdemux] [faad] playback issues with quicktime videos
      * 327075 : [qtdemux] add support for palettized SMC videos
      * 327355 : gst-plugins-bad CVS compilation breaks on gcc 4.1
      * 331335 : New Element: libsoundtouch based pitch shifter
      * 331909 : support for more fourccs in qtdemux
      * 332066 : [qtdemux] doesn't extract Disc Number field from some files
      * 332155 : Seeking problems in .mov files
      * 332402 : quicktime file will not play
      * 332598 : port modplug to 0.10
      * 332892 : [faad] 'Negative scalefactor found' and 'Maximum number o...
      * 333283 : [xviddec] Fix build with gcc 2.95
      * 333501 : [patch] taglib element
      * 334123 : [taglibmux] fixes for TPOS and TCOP
      * 334417 : autogen.sh bit rot
      * 334700 : [qtdemux] Memory leaks
      * 334748 : [faad] doesn't take sampling rate from demuxer
      * 335585 : xvidenc does not mark key-frame/delta-units
      * 336898 : Port musicbrainz/trm plugin to 0.10
      * 337263 : plugins need better/unified descriptions
      * 338233 : theora-exp api out of sync
      * 339041 : qtdemux : Floating point exception
      * 339074 : Thumbnail generation fails on the following file
      * 337436 : Sound is very jerky on this .mov file
      * 338935 : [qtdemux] floating point exception parsing trac header

Download

You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/

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

CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
All code is in CVS and can be checked out 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
    
      * Alex Lancaster
      * Christophe Fergeau
      * Edgard Lima
      * Edward Hervey
      * Fabrizio Gennari
      * James "Doc" Livingston
      * Jan Gerber
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Jens Granseuer).
      * Julien MOUTTE
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Michael Smith
      * Mikhail Zabaluev
      * Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho
      * Sebastien Moutte
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp M�      * Wim Taymans
      * Wouter Paeson
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali
      * j^
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