GStreamer core and plugins 0.8.12 released

["Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje ronald bitfreak net>]

Hi all,

I've done a maintainance release for gstreamer core and plugins, both
versioned 0.8.12. Release notes attached. Short update:

* better streaming input support (Quicktime, ASF, general)
* fixes for ALSA output problems
* lots of bug-, build- and portability fixes

Thanks to all the contributors, you can find each one of them in the
RELEASE notes. See our website for details
(http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gstreamer/0.8.12.html and
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-plugins/0.8.12.html).

Cheers,
Ronald

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plug-ins�0.8.12 "Ravage"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plug-ins.


The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x and 0.10.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x and 0.10.x series.


This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding,
conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media
handling functionality to the core.  You need the GStreamer core module
to make them work.  The versions do not need to match exactly, as long
as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.


The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module.  If you
want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this
module along with the GStreamer Core and Plug-ins.  An FFmpeg-based colorspace
element has been added to the Plug-ins however.

  
Features of this release
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x and 0.10.x series
      * Internationalization
      * Translations: af az ca cs da en_GB fr hu it nb nl or sq sr sv uk vizh_TW
      * mmsh:// support
      * Quicktime still-image and improved streaming support
      * Sun audio element fixes
      * ALSA reliability fixes
      * Build and stability fixes

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 162963 : gst-editor crash when playing pipeline with ximagsink/xvi...
      * 164176 : [jpegenc/dec] conversion bugs (wrong strides?)
      * 165964 : alsasink device detection issues
      * 168257 : [PATCH] [tcpserversink] add buffer-processed signal to tc...
      * 308663 : typefind function for smil content
      * 310747 : [ximagesrc] Segfaults when using a bpp != 32
      * 312114 : [PATCH]gnomevfssrc unneccessarily registers callbacks wit...
      * 312947 : Making single frame snapshots with the snapshot plugin is...
      * 313209 : [cdparanoia] wrong track info
      * 313812 : metadata not found in ogg files without genre
      * 314076 : Playbin segfault when switching from READY to PAUSED state
      * 314689 : alsasink cracks with some dmix configurations
      * 314771 : Xing header are detected only one time
      * 315121 : [alsasink] doesn't work unless passing hw:0
      * 315457 : [adder] reports time position improperly
      * 315550 : [typefinding] wrongly identifies non-music files as music... 
      * 315868 : GST_DOC used in configure.ac not expanded correctly
      * 316000 : [Patch] fix 4 plugins with gcc 2.95
      * 316543 : cddasrc not reporting correct discid for freedb Test CD
      * 317065 : gstreamer skips/pops on some mp3 files
      * 317300 : inline functions should be static or extern
      * 317592 : gst-launch-ext doesn't support wavpack
      * 317630 : cdparanoia seems to read one sector too much
      * 317742 : [cdparanoia] mispelling in comment
      * 317774 : wavpack: segfault on files encoded with -h (lossy, lossle...
      * 318136 : [ffmpegcolorspace] RGB fixation issue (needlessly fixate...
      * 318273 : [audioscale] messed up timestamps
      * 318767 : [alsasink] choppy playback of some files
      * 319805 : Missing include in dvdreadsrc.c
      * 324530 : plugin arts doesn't compile with -Werrror enabled
      * 326033 : Performance of totem mozilla plugin on apple.trailers.com...
      * 326318 : fix qtdemux h264 avcC atom finding

Download

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

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

The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be found
under /system/gstreamer/0.8.  Applications should use the gconf library,
as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default settings.

  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Akos Maroy
      * Arwed v. Merkatz
      * Benjamin Otte
      * Brian Cameron
      * Daniel Amelang
      * Fabrizio Gennari
      * Felix Riemann
      * Gustavo Noronha Silva
      * Julien MOUTTE
      * Luca Ognibene
      * Michael Smith
      * Michal Benes
      * Raphael Slinckx
      * Ronald S. Bultje
      * Steve Lhomme
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp M�      * Torsten Schoenfeld
      * Wouter Paesen
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali
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GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer�0.8.12 "Thanks for the cookies"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer streaming media framework.


The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x or 0.10.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x and 0.10.x series.


This module only contains core functionality.  For actual media playback,
you will need other modules.  GStreamer Plug-ins contains a huge set of
additional plugins.  GStreamer FFmpeg contains a plugin based on the popular
FFmpeg decoding library.  These modules need not have the same source version
as the core, as long as they are in the 0.8.x series.

  
Features of this release
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x and 0.10.x series
      * Internationalization
      * Translations: af, az, ca, cs, da, de, en_GB, fi, fr, it, nb, nl, ru, sq, sr, sv, tr, uk, vi
      * Leak, build and portability fixes
      * Add querying to fdsrc (useful for Totem's Firefox plugin)

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 316809 : bug in gstinfo.c -> _gst_debug_register_funcptr
      * 319316 : retag example doesn't work
      * 324260 : ignoring return value of 'g_list_delete_link' / 'g_list_...
      * 326299 : totem mozilla plugin doesn't play asf
      * 328382 : support single-image files
      * 330308 : undefined reference to `vgPlain_tool_info'

API changed in this release
     

- API additions:
    
* GST_TAG_IMAGE

Download

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

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

Applications already ported to use GStreamer 0.8.x include the GNOME
desktop components like gnome-media and nautilus-media, as well as other
GNOME applications including sound-juicer, totem and RhythmBox.

  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Arwed v. Merkatz
      * Christian Kirbach
      * Francis Labonte
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Julien Moutte
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Steve Lhomme
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp M��