GStreamer 'Desperately Seeking Sexiness' 0.4.0 released

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

GStreamer "Desperately Seeking Sexiness" 0.4.0 released

The GStreamer team is happy to announce another developer release of the
GStreamer streaming-media framework. GStreamer 0.4.0 is available for
immediate download at:
http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.4.0/
 
Updates and Enhancements

General

* Graphical pipeline editor (gst-editor) ported to GNOME 2.0
* Autobuild system using 
    	http://urgent.rug.ac.be/thomas/bitches to generate good RPMs
*Apt for rpm repository for GStreamer and plug-in dependencies on 
	RedHat 7.2 and 7.3, for both Ximian Red-Carpet Gnome 2 and 	Gnomehide. 
    	See http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/
        
* Red-Carpet GStreamer channel under construction.(available in a few
days)
* GConf schemas distributed for centralised sink settings
* Moved to http://bugzilla.gnome.org for bug reports. Bugzilla is more
	convenient than SourceForge's system, and Gnome already has a 	system
running. Thanks to Gnome for the support.
* Created a gst-feedback script to gather system information 
    to be added to a bug report for better debugging.


Core

* New much improved registry system implemented.
* New event-driven seek support. Event system is now working and
	implemented.
* Header files are now in a versioned directory to ease build pains.
* Improvements and bugfixes to dparams.
* Docs updated, registry and system clock documentation added.
* More tests added for improved troubleshooting.
* Cothreads code made more POSIX-compatible
* PowerPC portability fixes

Plug-ins

* Quicktime plug-in rewritten
* http://effectv.sourceforge.net/ - Effectv video effects plug-ins
	included
* Audio effect plug-ins fixes (int2float, floatcast etc.)
* A new filter plug-in for audio filters
* OSS plug-in fixes
* Audiofile plug-in works again (depends on upstream patch getting
	included)
* lavencode plug-in renamed yuv4mpeg
* Synaesthesia plug-in added to gst-visualisation packages
* http://jackit.sf.net/ - Jack plug-in working -- CVS Jack required
* Floatcast plug-in added
* Include file setup fixes
* Avi plug-in ported to avifile 0.7.7
* Lots of fixes and cleanups on the DV plug-in
* libfame plug-in added (mpeg4)
* libdvdnav plug-in added
* Better URI handling in gnome-vfs plug-in
* RTP plug-in updated and ported to the 	http://www.linphone.org/ortp/ -
oRTP library

Known Issues
GStreamer currently ships with two schedulers, named 'basic' and
'standard'. Basic is the one we have been shipping for a long time now
and is still the default in GStreamer 0.4.0. There are however some
limitations and threadrelated bugs in basic. These limitations are not
present in standard, but unfortunately standard does not work with i686
glibc atm due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to
other architectures including i386. We hope to get the remaining issues
in standard fixed before 0.4.1 and use that as default.

As for the bugs in basic we did not feel they warranted not releasing
0.4.0 as they are rather obscure. For instance if you are using
Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs nonstop to trigger
it.

If you want to test the standard scheduler, run your GStreamer
application with --gst-scheduler=standard

GStreamer Homepage

More details on these features can be found on the project's website, 
http://gstreamer.net/.

Support

We use http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ for bug reports and feature requests.
The "product name" is GStreamer (capital G).Please do the following
before writing a bug report :

* Run gst-feedback and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so
that we have some information useful in the debugging process.


Developers
GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge. 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.

We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix and
True64 that would be willing to try building and testing GStreamer.
Patches fixing build problems on such systems are of course also more
than welcome.

Contributors to this release

Core

Erik Walthinsen       	omega(AT)temple-baptist.com
Wim Taymans           	wim.taymans(AT)chello.be
Thomas Vander Stichele  thomas(AT)apestaart.org
Andy Wingo              wingo(AT)pobox.com
Benjamin Otte		in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de
Steve Baker             stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk

Plugins and Sample Applications

Richard Boulton        richard(AT)tartarus.org
David Lehn             dlehn(AT)vt.edu
Ronald Bultje          rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net
Bastien Nocera         hadess(AT)hadess.net
Martin Enlund          martin(AT)enlund.net
Arik Devens            arik(AT)gnome.org
Jeremy Simon	       jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr
Zeeshan Ali Khattak    zak147(AT)yahoo.com
Rehan Khwaja		rehankhwaja(AT)yahoo.com
Kentarou Fukuchi       fukuchi(AT)is.titech.ac.jp
Artyom Baginski        artm(AT)nerve.v2.nl
David Schleef	       ds(AT)schleef.org
Xavier Bestel	       xavier.bestel(AT)free.fr

Misc

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller	Uraeus(AT)gnome.org
Calum Selkirk              		cselkirk(AT)panix.com