[gst-devel] Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.5 "Take You On"

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.5 "Take You On"

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release
in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.


The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.


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.


The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module.  If
you want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install
this module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins.  An FFmpeg-based
colorspace element has been added to the Plugins however.

  
Features of this release
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
      * Internationalization
      * New translation in this release: Oriya
      * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nl or sq sr sv uk
      * licensing corrections
      * new element: mngdec
      * pixel aspect ratio conversion fixes
      * 64 bit fixes
      * NEW_MEDIA fixes
      * ogm support added
      * matroska fixes
      * playbin fixes
      * alsamixer fixes
      * gnomevfssrc fixes
      * ogg fixes
      * multifdsink fixes
      * multifilesink fixes
      * qtdemux fixes
      * avidemux fixes
      * asfdemux fixes
      * wavenc fixes
      * flac fixes
      * fli/flx fixes
      * mpeg fixes
      * speex now actually works

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 119376 : Playback out of sync for mpeg videos from DVB
      * 126922 : [qtdemux] demuxes incorrectly
      * 135528 : [ximagesink] crashes on resize
      * 137748 : [ffdec_wmav2] jaggy video for homeShopping.asf
      * 139194 : [gstplay] doesn't play media with only video
      * 139588 : In Alsa tab, binary value options appear as a slider
and ...
      * 142268 : avidemux forwards flush events event when not seeking
      * 147441 : typefind recognizes ELF files as audio/mpeg
      * 148283 : ** ERROR **: file gst-register.c: line 138 (main):
assert...
      * 148993 : Gstreamer fails to play Faac created aac file
      * 149742 : [asfdemux] Can't play Shania Twain - Up.wma
      * 150589 : dirac plugin does not compile with dirac-0.4.0
      * 151416 : [PATCH] Fix CVS jhbuild build failure of gstadder.c
      * 151419 : [PATCH] Fix CVS jhbuild build failure of
progressreport.c
      * 151420 : [PATCH] matroska-demux.c build failure on x86_64
      * 151421 : [PATCH] playback/test3.c build failure on x86_64
      * 151877 : [PATCH] Fix bad casts in ximagesink.c
      * 151879 : [PATCH] fix bad pointer casts in xvimagesink.c
      * 151881 : [PATCH] Fix format strings for amd64 in seek.c
      * 151882 : [PATCH] Fix format string warnings in spider_seek.c
      * 151883 : [PATCH] fix cdplayer.c warnings on amd64
      * 151884 : [PATCH] Fix format string warnings in cdparanoia.c
      * 151886 : [PATCH] Fix format string warnings in vorbisfile.c
      * 151887 : [PATCH] Fix format string warnings in player.c
      * 152091 : aspect-ratio fixes
      * 152102 : wavenc leaks events
      * 152289 : wavparse pushes buffers on unusable source pad
      * 152341 : patch for ivorbis compile failure
      * 152671 : file not playing back with BBB's gst-player
      * 152692 : Compile error with gcc 2.95
      * 152757 : playes this file in slow motion while other media
players...
      * 152805 : [sunaudiosink] Deselects other input ports
      * 152806 : [sunaudiomixer]  Mute functionality is broken
      * 153388 : Mpeg makes Totem hang
      * 153818 : AVI plays back extremely slowly
      * 154056 : Small leak in wavparse
      * 154301 : typefind and rmdemux don't use the same mime type for
real
      * 154375 : avi index massaging is slow
      * 154518 : gst-plugins speex support not compatible with
speex-1.0.x...

Download

You can find source releases of gst-plugins in the 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:
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

The GConf settings have moved to a versioned location and can now be
found under /system/gstreamer/0.8.  Applications should use the gconf
library, as provided by gstreamer-gconf-0.8.pc, to access the default
settings.

  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Arwed v. Merkatz
      * Balamurali Viswanathan
      * Benjamin Otte
      * Brian Cameron
      * Christian Schaller
      * Christophe Fergeau
      * David Schleef
      * Francis Labonte
      * Gora Mohanty
      * Iain Holmes
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Julien Moutte
      * Martin Eikermann
      * Nathan Robertson
      * Phil Blundell
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Scott Wheeler
      * Sebastien Cote
      * Stephane Loeuillet
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Wim Taymans
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali