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GStreamer "Panic Room" 0.5.2 released
The GStreamer team is happy to announce our final prerelease for the
stable 0.6 series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.
From now on, GStreamer will follow a versioning scheme similar to
kernel and GTK+/GLib releases. Odd minor numbers (like for this
release) will be development releases. While GStreamer itself is very
much under development, during stable releases we will guarantee API-
and ABI-stability. The point of this development release cycle is to
support Gnome 2.1.x development.
GStreamer major-minor series versions will now be
parallel-installable. Please update your applications to check for
gstreamer-0.5, gstreamer-libs-0.5 and gstreamer-play-0.5 using
pkg-config.
We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
check out our [1]applications status page.
Updates and Enhancements
Thread issues and GStreamer
Many of GStreamers features relies heavily on threads. Unfortunately
everything is not rosy in the Linux worlds of threads. If you have a
glibc version installed compiled with i686 optimizations (which uses a
different codepath than standard i386 glibc), there is a good chance
you will experience thread-related crashes in gstreamer-based
applications. There are a few workarounds to this available.
* You can use an i386- or i586-optimized glibc package instead.
* You can also try running the gstreamer-based applications using
the command-line option --gst-scheduler=opt, which invokes a newly
created scheduler that does not use threads. This scheduler is
very new however so you might encounter other issues when using
it.
People using the Red Hat beta Phoebe are recommended to update to
glibc from Rawhide. This solves all thread issues, thanks to the
new NTPL thread library that is included there.
General
* Solaris Forte fixes, GStreamer now compiles with Forte
* FreeBSD build fixes
* Many minor build issues fixed
* libgstplay updated to use filesrc
Core
* Many refcounting issues resolved
* A few Valgrind detected memleaks killed
Plug-ins
* Fix to OSS plugin to handle blocking correctly [2]Bug 102025.
* Wavparse plugin fixed to handle MPEG audio
* Swfdec plugin updated, now has sound
* Updated ffmpeg plugin to handle xvid movies
* modplug updated to work better with gst-player
* alsasink 100% cpu bug fixed
* pngenc cleaned up
GStreamer Homepage
More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
[3]http://gstreamer.net/.
Support and Bugs
We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
"product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following
before writing a bug report :
gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have
some information useful in the debugging process.
Developers
GStreamer is [5]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 such problems are also more than welcome.
Contributors to this release
Patches to the core of Gstreamer
* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
* David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
* David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
* Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
* Brian Cameron <brian.cameron(AT)sun.com>
Plugins and Sample Applications
* Cameron Hutchison <camh+gst(AT)xdna.net>
* Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
* Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
* Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
* Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)mad.scientist.com>
* Daniel Fischer <dan(AT)f3c.com>
* Martin Schlemmer <azarah(AT)gentoo.org>
* Andrew Turner &li;zombie(AT)4free.co.nz>
Misc
* Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
* Alp Toker <alp(AT)atoker.com>
References
1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
2. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102025
3. http://gstreamer.net/
4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
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