[gst-devel] Gst-player 0.5.0 released

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

You find the gstreamer-player-* rpms here:
http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/redhat-80-i386/RPMS.redhat/

We need to wait for Thomas to return from France to get it properly
added to the apt repo.

Christian

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 23:40, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> I don't see it in the apt repostitory - what's the module name?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller [mailto:Uraeus at linuxrising.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 2:28 PM
> To: gnome-announce-list at gnome.org; gnome-multimedia at gnome.org;
> gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net;
> gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [gst-devel] Gst-player 0.5.0 released
> 
> 
> Gstreamer Player "Number 5 is Alive"
> 0.5.0 released
> 
> This is a the 0.5.0 release of the
> GStreamer Player. It should be used
> with GStreamer releases 0.6.0 and
> higher. The player is still in the
> early stages of development and
> things may not work as expected.
> Gst-player is a player application
> which can play back all media
> supported by the GStreamer framework
> including mp3, ogg, flac, mpeg, avi,
> vob, mod and others. While it do
> support audio formats it is designed
> to primarly be a video player. 
> 
> 
> Whats New
>       * Julien Moutte has taken over
>         as lead developer
>       * New much improved GUI. 
>       * All known crasher bugs fixed
>         (some fixed in gstreamer
>         core and will be available
>         in GStreamer 0.6.1 to be
>         released soon).
>       * New dynamic resizing (but
>         with proper symetric
>         scaling)
>       * Playlist
>       * Much improved fullscreen
>         mode with nice autohiding
>         slider
> 
> Known issues
> Most known major issues are fixed in
> this version of gst-player. There
> are some polish items left like
> rescaling in non-xv mode for
> instance.
> 
> There are also some other issues
> caused by bugs in GStreamer core.
> This bugs are fixed in CVS head and
> is in the process of getting
> backported to the 0.6 stable branch.
> A new release the 0.6.x stable
> series will be released soon as,
> GStreamer 0.6.1. The major issues
> here is gst-player crashing after
> the third video is loaded into it
> and some sync issues in AVI files.
> 
> 
> Fun Stuff
> If you want to make your own
> screenshots you need to edit the
> GStreamer videosink GConf key. After
> xvideosink add 'disable-xv=1'. We do
> not advise using this for normal
> viewing if you have Xv support
> available, as it lowers performance
> and disables scaling.
> 
> For even more fun, set the key to
> something like agingTV ! colorspace
> ! xvideosink
> 
> 
> You find download instructions and
> screenshots on the 
> 0.5.0 release page:
> http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/gst-player/0.5.0/
> 
> 
> Contributors to this release
> Maintainer
>       * <jmoutte(AT)electronic-group.com>
> 
> Contributors
>       * Steve Baker
>         <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
>       * Benjamin Otte
>         <in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de>
>       * Thomas Vander Stichele
>         <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
>       * Christian Schaller
>         <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
>       * Iain Holmes
>         <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus at linuxrising.org>