gstreamer-announce

[gst-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.0

[Tim J. <ti...@gt...>]

BEAST/BSE version 0.7.0 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.0 are
available for download at:

       ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.7/
or
       http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/

This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem
and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition
and modular synthesis application released as free software under the
GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. BSE-ALSA is an ALSA driver
for BSE.
The project is hosted at:

       http://beast.gtk.org

The "Bedevilled" portion of the names has no religious background,
refer to the About page for more details:

       http://beast.gtk.org/about

A mailing list is available at:

       http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/

GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as
screenshots can be found at:

       http://beast.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html
       http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots/index.html

The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and
ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take
the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in online forums
like the Beast Help Desk, Beast Bugzilla or the mailing list, all of which
can be reached through http://beast.gtk.org/.


Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.0:

* Renamed scheme shell to bsescm
* Optimized core functions for MMX/SSE with runtime CPU detection
* Fixed CPU profiler to work with newer Linux kernels
* New probing code for optimized volume meters and FFT scopes
* Plugins/Module changes:
   StandardOscillator    - Added semitone transposition function
   FreeVerb              - Fixed distortions due to subnormal handling
   GusPatchEnvelope      - Better approximation of GUS Patch envelopes [Stefan]
   Adder                 - Deprecated in favour of BseSummation
   Constant		- Number of output channels reduced to 4
   DavSynDrum            - Fixed retrigger logic [Stefan]
* Added support for MMX/SSE-optimized plugins
* Converted runtime documentation system to use a local web browser
* Relicensed all example scripts and BSE files under an "AS IS" license
* New loadable Instruments/Effects:
   BQS Organ
   BQS SynDrum
   BQS Fretless Bass		[Stefan Westerfeld]
   BQS Queek Synth
   BQS MoogSaw Bass		[Stefan Westerfeld]
   BQS Merp Pad
   BQS Compressor		[Stefan Westerfeld]
   BQS Reverb			[Stefan Westerfeld]
   BQS Saturation And Reverb	[Stefan Westerfeld]
* Major code reorganizations, only one library is installed now: libbse
* Vastly extended test coverage of many core mechanisms
* Moved source base to automake-1.9 and added support for gcc-4.2
* Lots of major and minor fixes and improvements
* Bugzilla issues resolved: #337703, #342186, #343301, #340386, #340307
* Updated Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] 
* Updated German translation [Hendrik Richter, Jens Seidel]
* Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador]
* Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac]
* Updated Italian translation [Petrecca Michele]
* Updated Catalan translation [Gil Forcada]
* Updated Dutch translation [Vincent van Adrighem]
* Updated Swedish translation [Daniel Nylander]
* Added Nepali translation [Pawan Chitrakar]


Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.0:

* Build fixes for BEAST-0.7.0
* Moved source base to automake-1.9 and added support for gcc-4.2


---
ciaoTJ

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.9 'I walk the line'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.9 'I walk the line'.


GStreamer Base Plug-ins is a well-groomed and well-maintained collection of
GStreamer plug-ins and elements, spanning the range of possible types of
elements one would want to write for GStreamer.  It also contains helper
libraries and base classes useful for writing elements.
A wide range of video and audio decoders, encoders, and filters are included.

For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-base.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gst-plugins-base]

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer 0.10.9 'On the road again'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer 0.10.9 'On the road again'.


GStreamer is a streaming media framework that allows the construction of
graphs of elements which operate on media data.
Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing
over playing video to capturing audio, video, and even other types of media
data.
Its architecture allows for adding new data types or processing capabilities
simply by installing new plug-ins.
GStreamer is the core module, containing libraries, headers, the basic object
hierarchy, and a set of media-agnostic core elements.
 
For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gstreamer.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gstreamer+%28core%29]

Re: [gst-announce] [gst-devel] Pre-releases of Core and Base 0.10.8.3 are up

[Jan S. <th...@no...>]

A new set of pre-release tarballs are up which fix some issues in the first ones.

Get them at 
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/pre/gstreamer-0.10.8.3.tar.bz2
and
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/pre/gst-plugins-base-0.10.8.3.tar.bz2

The goal is still to release early next week.

Cheers,
Jan.
-- 
Jan Schmidt <th...@no...>

[gst-announce] Pre-releases of Core and Base 0.10.8.2 are up

[Jan S. <th...@no...>]

I just uploaded pre-release tarballs of GStreamer core and base to

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/pre/gstreamer-0.10.8.2.tar.bz2
and
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/pre/gst-plugins-base-0.10.8.2.tar.bz2

Please give them some testing and file any bugs, marking them as
blockers. 

I'm aiming for final releases in a week.

Cheers,
Jan.
-- 
Jan Schmidt <th...@no...>

[gst-announce] First release of the Elisa Media Center solution

[Christian F. K. S. <chr...@fl...>]

The Elisa team is proud to announce the first 0.0.1 development release
of the Elisa home multimedia system.

Elisa is a project to create an open source media center solution for
GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems. Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer
multimedia framework. In addition to personal video recorder
functionality (PVR) and Music Jukebox support, Elisa will also
interoperate with devices following the DLNA standard like Intel's ViiV
systems.

The 0.0.x series is aimed at developers and early adopters with later
releases targeting the wider user community. This particular release is
mainly a technology preview aimed to show the current features and user
interfaces of Elisa to enable us to get early feedback and input from
the wider community. The APIs are subject to change very soon though.

Features of this release:

      * Pictures, music, movies browsing and playback support
      * Basic media operations (picture rotation, video navigation, ...)
      * Partial interoperability with UPnP MediaServers
      * OpenGL 1.3 rendering support
      * Storage hotplug support using HAL and DBus (USB volumes,
        iPod, ...)
      * Web radios support
      * Basic DVD playback
      * Remote control support using LIRC
      * Extensible plugin framework

You can download this first release from our the Elisa:
http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/downloads

For more information about Elisa check out the Elisa website at:
http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer 0.10.8 'Soepeke, ik zie ou nog altijd nie'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer 0.10.8 'Soepeke, ik zie ou nog altijd nie'.


GStreamer is a streaming media framework that allows the construction of
graphs of elements which operate on media data.
Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing
over playing video to capturing audio, video, and even other types of media
data.
Its architecture allows for adding new data types or processing capabilities
simply by installing new plug-ins.
GStreamer is the core module, containing libraries, headers, the basic object
hierarchy, and a set of media-agnostic core elements.
 
For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gstreamer.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gstreamer+%28core%29]

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.8 'Moar gij zie mij nie'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.8 'Moar gij zie mij nie'.


GStreamer Base Plug-ins is a well-groomed and well-maintained collection of
GStreamer plug-ins and elements, spanning the range of possible types of
elements one would want to write for GStreamer.  It also contains helper
libraries and base classes useful for writing elements.
A wide range of video and audio decoders, encoders, and filters are included.

For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-base.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gst-plugins-base]

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer 0.10.7 'Soepeke, ik zie ou'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer 0.10.7 'Soepeke, ik zie ou'.


GStreamer is a streaming media framework that allows the construction of
graphs of elements which operate on media data.
Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing
over playing video to capturing audio, video, and even other types of media
data.
Its architecture allows for adding new data types or processing capabilities
simply by installing new plug-ins.
GStreamer is the core module, containing libraries, headers, the basic object
hierarchy, and a set of media-agnostic core elements.
 
For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gstreamer.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gstreamer+%28core%29]

[gst-announce] RELEASE: Ruby Gstreamer 0.10 bindings 0.1.1

[<sj...@sp...>]

I'm pround to announce version 0.1.1 of the Ruby Gstreamer 0.10 bindings.

The Ruby Gstreamer 0.10 bindings make it possible to use Gstreamer 0.10
with Ruby.  As they are based on Ruby/Gstreamer from Ruby/Gnome2 (which are
bindings  for the Gstreamer 0.8 series), it should be fairly easy to port
existing Ruby/Gstreamer programs.

Although the basics work quite well, there is still quite some work that ne=
eds
to be done. Help for this is very welcome, please see the site for more
information!

For more information see the Ruby Gstreamer0.10 website:=20
  https://trac.luon.net/ruby-gstreamer0.10/
For comments and questions please use the Ruby Gstreamer0.10 mailinglist:=
=20
  https://lists.luon.net/listinfo/ruby-gstreamer0.10
For bugs please file a ticket on the Ruby Gstreamer0.10 Trac site:
  https://trac.luon.net/ruby-gstreamer0.10/newticket

  Sjoerd Simons
--=20
You can't cheat the phone company.

[gst-announce] Attention: Packagers of GStreamer tarballs

[Jan S. <th...@no...>]

I found a small bug in the GStreamer build system, introduced at the
start of April, which exposes a bug in the registry cache.

The end result, sadly, is that applications based on GStreamer end up
opening a bunch of plugins (sometimes ALL of them) every time they
start.

Neatly, the problem only on happens in packaged builds where a
--with-package-name or --with-package-origin is being passed to
configure, so there was never any chance we'd see it in CVS.

Packagers of various distros that have built packages for GStreamer in
the last 6 weeks should take a look at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341479

Cheers,
J

-- 
Jan Schmidt th...@no...

Open Source Software: Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.7 'Leave the gun'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.7 'Leave the gun'.


GStreamer Base Plug-ins is a well-groomed and well-maintained collection of
GStreamer plug-ins and elements, spanning the range of possible types of
elements one would want to write for GStreamer.  It also contains helper
libraries and base classes useful for writing elements.
A wide range of video and audio decoders, encoders, and filters are included.

For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-base.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gst-plugins-base]

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer 0.10.6 'Leave the cannoli'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer 0.10.6 'Leave the cannoli'.


GStreamer is a streaming media framework that allows the construction of
graphs of elements which operate on media data.
Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing
over playing video to capturing audio, video, and even other types of media
data.
Its architecture allows for adding new data types or processing capabilities
simply by installing new plug-ins.
GStreamer is the core module, containing libraries, headers, the basic object
hierarchy, and a set of media-agnostic core elements.
 
For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gstreamer.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gstreamer+%28core%29]

[gst-announce] New releases of GStreamer Good and Bad plugin collections

[Jan S. <th...@no...>]

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 th...@no...

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

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer Python Bindings 0.10.4 'Alegre'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer Python Bindings 0.10.4 'Alegre'.


GStreamer Python Bindings is a set of Python bindings for GStreamer, using
the same system as PyGTK.
It also comes with a number of examples.
 
For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-python.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gst-python]

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.6 'Chao'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.6 'Chao'.


GStreamer Base Plug-ins is a well-groomed and well-maintained collection of
GStreamer plug-ins and elements, spanning the range of possible types of
elements one would want to write for GStreamer.  It also contains helper
libraries and base classes useful for writing elements.
A wide range of video and audio decoders, encoders, and filters are included.

For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-plugins-base.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gst-plugins-base]

[gst-announce] RELEASE: GStreamer 0.10.5 'Fogo'

[<th...@ap...>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer 0.10.5 'Fogo'.


GStreamer is a streaming media framework that allows the construction of
graphs of elements which operate on media data.
Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing
over playing video to capturing audio, video, and even other types of media
data.
Its architecture allows for adding new data types or processing capabilities
simply by installing new plug-ins.
GStreamer is the core module, containing libraries, headers, the basic object
hierarchy, and a set of media-agnostic core elements.
 
For more information, see [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gstreamer.html]
To file bugs, go to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gstreamer+%28core%29]

[gst-announce] Fluendo MPEG2 demuxer for GStreamer 0.10.3 release

[Christian F. K. S. <chr...@fl...>]

We just made available a new version of Fluendo's open source MPEG2
demuxer for the GStreamer framework. This version adds support for MPEG2
transport streams in addition to the program streams support in the
previous version and also contain a host of bugfixes and small
improvements.

This demuxer is licensed under the MPL license,
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php

It is probably the best MPEG2 demuxer available currently for GStreamer,
and it is the only one supporting transport streams.

You can download the latest tarball release here:
http://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/src/gst-fluendo-mpegdemux/

Our you can access our public SVN repository here:
http://www.fluendo.com/resources/source-plugins.php


Christian Schaller
Fluendo S.A.

[gst-announce] Releases of GStreamer Ugly Plugins and GStreamer FFMpeg

[Thomas V. S. <th...@ap...>]

Hi everyone,

New releases of two GStreamer modules were made.  See
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ for more information.

Release notes are attached.

Enjoy,
Thomas

[gst-announce] Release notes for GStreamer Python 0.10.3 "Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon..."

[Jan S. <th...@no...>]

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

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.

Features of this release

      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * Backwards compatibility with older GStreamer installations
      * Wrapping of new API in GStreamer
      * Bug-fixes and enhancements

Bugs fixed in this release

      * 329110 : gst-python sets RTLD_GLOBAL when importing, but doesn't
s...
      * 332586 : pygst.require should raise an error based on
StandardErro...
      * 333055 : PYGIL_API_IS_BUGGY is already defined in pygobect.h
      * 331616 : gst.version and gst.gst_version differ

Download

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

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

      * Andy Wingo
      * Edward Hervey
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Joe Wreschnig
      * Michael Smith
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali


-- 
Jan Schmidt th...@no...

Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name...
-Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection)

[gst-announce] New 0.10.2.2 GStreamer Python pre-release.

[Jan S. <th...@no...>]

A pre-release of gst-python, version 0.10.2.2, is now available on the
GStreamer website at

 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-python/pre/

Please give this release a test and report any problems in bugzilla.

Cheers,
Jan.

-- 
Jan Schmidt th...@no...

"Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas"
-- Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer, Red Dwarf

[gst-announce] gst-plugins-base 0.10.5 released

[Thomas V. S. <th...@ap...>]

Hi everyone,

a quick-fix release was made for gst-plugins-base that addresses
playability of files over NFS.

Release notes attached.

We recommend that people that upgraded to gst-plugins-base 0.10.4 since
last week, upgrade to this new release now.

Thanks,
Thomas

Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/
<-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*->
de laatste tijd
heb ik gedacht
het is niet meer
zoals het was
<-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*->
URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/

[gst-announce] releases 0.10.4 of GStreamer Core and Base Plugins

[Thomas V. S. <th...@ap...>]

Hi everyone,

New GStreamer releases are out.  Release notes attached.

Enjoy,

Thomas


Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/
<-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*->
"Would you like my advice ?"
"That depends. Will I like it ?"
"Of course you won't ! My advice is based on reality !"
<-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*->
URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/

[gst-announce] Release notes for GStreamer gst-plugins-bad 0.10.1 "Slimy - yet satisfying"

[Jan S. <th...@no...>]

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.10.1 "Slimy - yet
satisfying"

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
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * Lots of fixes for the QT/MOV demuxer, including
        restoring the ability to play web streams, and more
        codecs supported
      * AAC decoder fixes
      * MMS source fixes
      * DirectFB plugin updated
      * New plugins ported to 0.10: swfdec, XVid, dtsdec, glimagesink
      * New libneon based http source filter
      * APE tag reader moved to gst-plugins-good module

Bugs fixed in this release
      * 303167 : Add bzip2 support
      * 322973 : [wavpack] erroneous sampling rates range
      * 326524 : Support for Indeo 3-encoded QuickTime files
      * 327133 : [qtdemux] QuickTime with 8-bit audio
      * 328854 : AAC+ stream not working with FAAD plugin
      * 330089 : [bz2] Wrong mimetype and no typefinding
      * 331302 : bz2 plugin source files lack copyright notices
      * 331543 : crash on iTunes MPEG v4 AAC-LC files
      * 331582 : [qtdemux] protect log statement against invalid memory
ac...

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=3DGStreamer

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
      * Andy Wingo
      * Christian Schaller
      * David Schleef
      * Edgard Lima
      * Edward Hervey
      * Fabrizio Gennari
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Julien MOUTTE
      * Lutz Mueller
      * Sebastien Moutte
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp M=C3=BCller
      * Wim Taymans

--=20
Jan Schmidt th...@no...

<stibbons> Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense
if I'd paid attention.

[gst-announce] Release notes for GStreamer gst-plugins-ugly 0.10.2 "Season to Taste"

[Jan S. <th...@no...>]

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins 0.10.2 "Season to
Taste"

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

"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."

There are times when the world needs a color between black and white.
Quality code to match the good's, but two-timing, backstabbing and ready
to
sell your freedom down the river.  These plug-ins might have a patent
noose
around their neck, or a lock-up license, or any other problem that makes
you
think twice about shipping them.

We don't call them ugly because we like them less.  Does a mother love
her
son less because he's not as pretty as the other ones ? No  - she
commends
him on his great personality.  These plug-ins are the life of the party.
And we'll still step in and set them straight if you report any
unacceptable
behaviour - because there are two kinds of people in the world, my
friend:
those with a rope around their neck and the people who do the cutting.

This module contains a set of plug-ins that have good quality and
correct
functionality, but distributing them might pose problems.  The license
on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd
like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems.
Distributors should check if they want/can ship these plug-ins.

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-bad contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't
passed the rigorous quality testing we expect

Features of this release
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * DVD Title source (dvdreadsrc) ported (DVD Menus in a future
release)
      * ASF demuxer ported
      * Fixes for MPEG demuxing
      * Fixes for the MAD MP3 decoder
      * Fixes for the LAME MP3 encoder
      * ID3 tag reading has moved to id3demux in gst-plugins-good
      * Fixes for the Real Media demuxer
      * Various other fixes

Bugs fixed in this release
      * 311679 : [lame] doesn't write GST_TAG_DATE correctly
      * 326734 : [mad] Add 24-bit output support
      * 171528 : SIGFPE in gstasf with
http://joule.via.ecp.fr/~lool/debia...
      * 313838 : totem hangs after playing an amazon sample
      * 317872 : Cannot demux ASF/WMV files with auxillary
(non-audio/vide...
      * 319782 : Lame encoding is broken with vbr=3Dvbr-new and
vbr-quality=3D9
      * 326711 : [mpegdemux] does not negotiate source pads
      * 329575 : misc bugfixes for mad from 0.8
      * 331035 : [asfdemux] port to 0.10
      * 331301 : [mpeg2dec] strides issues when cropping
      * 331579 : Set asfdemux rank to secondary
      * 330844 : mpeg2dec crashes with " cropped " MPEG videos

Download

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

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=3DGStreamer

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

      * Christian Schaller
      * Edgard Lima
      * Edward Hervey
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Martin Soto
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp M=C3=BCller
      * Wim Taymans


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