[gst-devel] GStreamer Plugins 0.8.6 IOU Love released

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.6 "IOU Love"

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release in the 0.8.x
stable series of the GStreamer Plugins. At lot of important issues has
been fixed in this release. 

People experiencing problems with ALSA and GStreamer are strongly
advised to test this release out.

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.

Features of this release
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
      * Internationalization
      * New translation in this release: Norwegian Bokmaal
      * New translation in this release: Luca Ferretti
      * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nb nl or sq sr sv uk
      * new element: polypsink
      * new element: musepack decoder
      * alsa fixes
      * playbin fixes
      * visualisation fixes
      * support for cd://, cdda:// and dv:// uri
      * v4lsrc fixes
      * id3demux fixes
      * avc-based Firewire camera support
      * speex fixes
      * tcp fixes
      * multifdsink improvements
      * ffmpegcolorspace fixes
      * chained ogg support

Bugs fixed in this release
      * 140994 : [mplex] configure failure
      * 143961 : MusePack codec support
      * 144389 : alsasink dies after some time playing
      * 144436 : opt / oggmux problem (endless interrupt event loop)
      * 150061 : gstreamer error in rhythmbox: vorbisdec(27925)
        vorbisdec....
      * 150576 : pad v4l2src0:src returned caps that are not a real
        subset...
      * 151059 : [sdlvideosink] doesn't implement overlay properly
      * 151064 : asfdemux crash
      * 151122 : playing a m4a-file using " spider " doesn't work
      * 152750 : audioconvert crash
      * 154781 : [playbin/totem] avi file with just divx video (no
        audio) ...
      * 154784 : [playbin/totem] playing avi with 320x240 raw yuv video
        an...
      * 154788 : Xv video in another window
      * 154807 : auparse doesn't error out on invalid files
      * 154834 : [dvdreadsrc] immediate EOS when specifying a title > 0
      * 154903 : cdparanoia plugin doesn't handle URIs
      * 154967 : [wavenc] missing cast and terminator in
        gst_event_new_dis...
      * 155008 : LoTr movie segfaulting with gstreamer+totem
      * 155223 : memleak in wavparse
      * 155814 : gst_bin_iterate() gets stuck on some images
      * 155864 : [oggdemux] regression with files without proper EOS
        flag
      * 156372 : gst-plugins fails to build on AMD64
      * 156387 : [oggdemux] seeking is off by up to 30 secs (regression)
      * 156477 : Ogg Vorbis file fails to play. Works with ogg123
      * 156488 : Introducing device for alsasink in gconf makes totem
        crash
      * 156565 : gst_bin_remove crashes deep down
      * 156910 : Rhythmbox crash at the end of this song
      * 157032 : Patch for dispose/finalize functions in gst-plugins
      * 157281 : crash with totem-gst
      * 157543 : [rtpgsmparse] missing NULL terminator to
        gst_caps_new_sim...
      * 157548 : [vorbisenc] premature and/or missing terminator to
        gst_ca...
      * 157632 : C99 style variable initialization(multifilesrc_test.c)
      * 157964 : smoothwave display warnings when launching gst-register
      * 157986 : [vorbisdec] fix warning when querying while draining
      * 158006 : alsasink/rhythmbox don't like each other anymore
      * 158125 : gstreamer apps have serious issues with 0.8.5.2 plugins
        & ...
      * 158221 : Build fix for gstreamer-plugins 0.8.5.3
      * 158365 : Fix for playbin hangs
      * 158375 : fix segfault in mp3 typefinding
      * 158462 : [dvdreadsrc] invalid reads / is_nav_pack assertion
        failure
      * 158832 : pngenc drops GstBuffer extra info (timestamp,
        length...)
      * 158976 : [oggdemux] seeking broken again [regression]
      * 159186 : [PATCH] videorate doesn't handle all colorspaces
      * 159187 : [PATCH] v4l probes too much and should cache

API changes
      * API additions 
              * A new v4lsrc property, autoprobe-fps, has been added.

Download
You can find source releases of gst-plugins in the gst-plugins 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. 

Developers
CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org. You can browse the gst-plugins
repository. 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. 

Contributors to this release
      * Arwed v. Merkatz
      * Benjamin Otte
      * Christophe Fergeau
      * David Schleef
      * Iain Holmes
      * James Henstridge
      * James Morrison
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Julien Moutte
      * Kjartan Maraas
      * Koop Mast
      * Luca Ferretti
      * Martin Pitt
      * Milosz Derezynski
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Sebastien Cote
      * Stefan Kost
      * Takao Fujiwara
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Wim Taymans
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali