Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.22 "hidey hidey hidey ho" The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release in the 0.10.x stable series of the GStreamer Base 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. This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other plugins, and helper libraries. This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for their development. This module contains elements for, among others: device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia containers: ogg codecs: vorbis, theora text: textoverlay, subparse sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc network: tcp typefind audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume visualisation: libvisual video processing: ffmpegcolorspace aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin Other modules containing plug-ins are: 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 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 * Require gettext 0.17 * Replace audioresample with speexresample from -bad * Support new formats in RIFF: uncompressed RGB, WMA lossless, VP6 * Move libgstapp and elements from -bad * Support color-key setting and probing for Xv properties * Improve typefinding for various formats * Extend audio sinks for pull-mode operation * Support for more subtitle formats * More development on decode2bin and playbin2 * RTP and SDP fixes * Many bug fixes and improvements Bugs fixed in this release * 562163 : theoraenc likely ignoring segments * 562258 : rtspsrc element takes long time to error out if the addre... * 561789 : [volume] deadlocks with a controller attached * 554533 : [xvimagesink] allow setting colorkey if possible * 567511 : colorkey in xvimagesink gets reset when element is reused * 116051 : libresample doesn't handle > factor of 2 rate conversion * 346218 : [audioresample] doesn't do anti aliasing * 385061 : [audioresample?] investigate high CPU usage * 456788 : [subparse] can't handle UTF-16 charset encoded subtitle. * 525807 : [vorbisenc] vorbisenc has problems with a gnlsource that ... * 546955 : gstoggmux EOS handling issue * 549417 : [audioresample] unit test fails on 64bit linux * 549510 : audioresample doesn't negotiate ideal caps * 552237 : UTF-16 srt confuses gstreamer, misdetected as mp3 * 552559 : Implementation of SLAVE_SKEW in baseaudiosrc * 552569 : audioresample producing strange sized buffers * 552801 : audioconvert can overflow with big audio buffers * 554879 : Add ability to specify format for date/time display in Gs... * 555257 : Doesn't display srt subtitles saved with BOM * 555319 : add FFV1 fourcc to riff-media * 555607 : subrip subtitles typefind too strict * 555699 : [PATCH] theoradec: prefer container's pixel aspect ratio ... * 556025 : build failure in tests/icles * 556066 : Last byte of FLAC image buffer chopped off * 557365 : subparse check fails * 558124 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] Move speexresample as audioresample2 to -base * 559111 : ALSA sink hangs on USB audio device unplug while playing * 559478 : does not play windows media streams correctly * 559567 : `gst_base_audio_sink_sync_latency' should call `gst_base_... * 561436 : videorate element add image/jpeg to caps template * 561734 : playbin2 additions * 561780 : Playbin2 should work without volume too * 561924 : oggdemux hangs when given corrupt input via non-seekable ... * 562270 : build without gdk fails * 563143 : ximagesink/xvimagesink : _alloc_buffer returns non-clean ... * 563174 : Implement gst_rtcp_packet_remove * 563508 : [rgvolume] Unit test fails with passthrough assertions * 563718 : Theora check out of date * 563904 : GNOME Goal: Clean up GLib and GTK+ includes * 564098 : MS Word files are recognised as audio/mpeg and OSX's .DS_... * 564139 : Documentation of TCP plugins * 564200 : GstBaseAudioSink should register its enums and have corre... * 564206 : GstBaseAudioSrc should register its enum and have corresp... * 564421 : Move appsrc/appsink to -base * 564929 : Audiosink blocks if setcaps called while playing * 566586 : playbin2 test7.c fails after two songs * 566750 : [appsrc/sink] add padding, move private data to private s... * 566761 : [gstapp] No pkg-config file * 566837 : gst_cdda_base_src_mode_get_type() is not public from < gst... * 566875 : [gnomevfs] Add dependency for the GnomeVFS modules * 566876 : [gio] Add dependency for the modules dir * 567027 : Add GType for GstRTSPUrl for bindings * 567168 : appsink is using the wrong signal slot for the pull-buffe... * 567960 : [tagdemux] Doesn't forward unknown events upstream * 500833 : [FFT] Struct alignment issues on sparc * 552199 : Parsing SDP file with multicast address fails * 558553 : [riff] gst_riff_create_video_caps not recognizing certain... * 564896 : gst_netaddress_get_ip[46]_address should check for correc... * 566341 : Some Ogg Theora files don't finished at seek at the end * 566654 : playbin2: does not come back from NULL after switching UR... * 566723 : GstAudioClock's new function may better use const gchar* ... API changed in this release - API additions: * clockoverlay::time-format * GstRingBuffer:gst_ring_buffer_activate() * GstRingBuffer:gst_ring_buffer_is_active() * GstRingBuffer:gst_ring_buffer_convert() * Add GST_TYPE_BASE_AUDIO_(SRC|SINK)_SLAVE_METHOD to the public API * gst_netaddress_get_address_bytes() * gst_netaddress_set_address_bytes() Download You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/ 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 * Andrew Feren * Andy Wingo * Christian Schaller * Cygwin Ports maintainer * Damien Lespiau * Daniel Drake * David Schleef * Edward Hervey * Guillaume Emont * Håvard Graff * Jan Gerber * Jan Schmidt * Jonathan Matthew * Jonathan Rosser * José Alburquerque * Julien Moutte * Klaas * Luis Menina * Mark Nauwelaerts * Matthias Kretz * Michael Smith * Nick Haddad * Olivier Crete * Pavel Zeldin * Robin Stocker * Sebastian Dröge * Stefan Kost * Tero Saarni * Thomas Vander Stichele * Tim-Philipp Müller * Wim Taymans * xavierb at gmail dot com * 이문형