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@@ -1,99 +1,104 @@ - GStreamer "30 Second Frenchman" 0.3.4 released - - RELEASE NOTES + GStreamer "Desperately Seeking Sexiness" 0.4.0 released The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the - GStreamer streaming-media framework. - -Focus of this release - - This release fixes a few developer usability issues. - - A few of the API functions have been changed to offer better - functionality and to be more consistent with other toolkits (GLib, - GTK). - Sample changes: - * gst_elementfactory_make to gst_element_factory_make - * GST_PADTEMPLATE_* to GST_PAD_TEMPLATE_* - - This release of GStreamer has been primarily made in support of - RhythmBox. It should really work with their upcoming 0.2.0 release. - - The gst-launch parsing has been bisonified. This allows for better and - more consistent command-line parsing. Accordingly, some changes in the - dynamic pad treatment have been made as well. - The registry handling has been changed. gst-register will now write to - a local registry (in ~/.gstreamer/reg.xml) if it does not have - permissions to write to the global registry. Normal applications not - running as root will prefer this local registry if it exists, and fall - back to the global otherwise. - Also, a --gst-registry option has been added to all gst applications. - If this is specified, then the application will ONLY use this - registry. This is useful for testsuites inside the core as well as - general testing of plugins. - - GStreamer is now in Gnome's Bugzilla. Please file bugs against us - there whenever you find them ! - -Changes in the 0.3.x tree - - The 0.3.x tree is our first tree using GLib 2.0 and libxml2 as the - sole compile platform. We have also started including all our - documentation in our RPMS starting this tree. People wanting to build - GStreamer themselves with documentation should look at the DOCBUILDING - file for some information on what packages are needed to build that - successfully. - - Another new feature of this release tree is the gst-launch-ext - command-line application. It uses predefined pipelines to play back - media files based on their file extension. This means that you don't - need to construct your own pipelines using gst-launch if all you want - to do is play a file. Just type gst-launch-ext [filename] and the - audiofile or movie plays for you. This of course also being a work in - progress means that sometimes it might decide on the wrong pipeline, - or cause jitter, as well as random headaches. - - For help building GStreamer, take a look at our [1]build help document - . - -Updates and Enhancements in this release - - * Improved API naming - * New registry handling, allowing for global, local or specified - registry - * bison parser - * gst-launch-ext dynamic pad fixes - * various fixes in mad and vorbisdec for RhythmBox - -Previously, in the 0.3.x tree - - * devhelp documentation - * New and improved Props API - * New master clock system - * dxr3 plugin - * libcolorspace plugin - * Full dparams documentation - * All functions documented (551 functions documented) - * Python bindings - * Portability fixes (no more C++ // style comments) - * a52dec plugin updated to a52dec 0.7.3 API - * gnome-vfs plugin updated to new seek api - * Misc bug and caps fixes - * SPEC files improvements + GStreamer streaming-media framework. We are quickly moving forward at + this time and more and more applications using GStreamer are popping + up. Please see the [1]release page for availability of source and + binary packages. + +Updates and Enhancements + + General + + * Graphical pipeline editor (gst-editor) ported to GNOME 2.0 + * Autobuild system using [2]bitches to generate good RPMs + * Apt for rpm repository for GStreamer and plug-in dependencies on + RedHat 7.2 and 7.3, for both Ximian Red-Carpet Gnome 2 and + Gnomehide. See [3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/ + * Red-Carpet GStreamer channel under construction. + * GConf schemas distributed for centralised sink settings + * Moved to [4]http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ for bug reports. Bugzilla + is more convenient than SourceForge's system, and Gnome already + has a system running. Thanks to Gnome for the support. + * Created a gst-feedback script to gather system information to be + added to a bug report for better debugging. + + Core + + * New much improved registry system implemented. + * New event-driven seek support. Event system is now working and + implemented + * Header files are now in a versioned directory to ease build pains. + * Improvements and bugfixes todparams. + * Docs updated, registry and system clock documentation added + * More tests added for improved troubleshooting + * Cothreads code made more POSIX-compatible + * PowerPC portability fixes + + Plug-ins + + * Quicktime plug-in rewritten + * [5]Effectv video effects plug-ins included + * Audio effect plug-ins fixes (int2float, floatcast etc.) + * A new filter plug-in for audio filters + * OSS plug-in fixes + * Audiofile plug-in works again (depends on upstream patch getting + included) + * lavencode plug-in renamed yuv4mpeg + * Synaesthesia plug-in added to gst-visualisation packages + * [6]Jack plug-in working and packaged -- CVS Jack required + * Floatcast plug-in added + * Include file setup fixes + * Avi plug-in ported to avifile 0.7.7 + * Lots of fixes and cleanups on the DV plug-in + * libfame plug-in added (mpeg4) + * libdvdnav plug-in added + * Better URI handling in gnome-vfs plug-in + * RTP plug-in updated and ported to the [7]oRTP library + +Known Issues + + GStreamer currently ships with two schedulers, named 'basic' and + 'standard'. Basic is the one we have been shipping for a long time now + and is still the default in GStreamer 0.4.0. There are however some + limitations and threadrelated bugs in basic. These limitations are not + present in standard, but unfortunately standard does not work with + i686 glibc atm due to differences in the way threads are handled + compared to other architectures including i386. We hope to get the + remaining issues in standard fixed before 0.4.1 and use that as + default. + + As for the bugs in basic we did not feel they warranted not releasing + 0.4.0 as they are rather obscure. For instance if you are using + Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs nonstop to + trigger it. + + If you want to test the standard scheduler, run your GStreamer + application with --gst-scheduler=standard + +GStreamer Homepage More details on these features can be found on the project's website, - [2]http://gstreamer.net/. Source tarballs are also mirrored at - [3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/. If you use Red Hat (or - possibly other RPM-based systems), RPMs for both GStreamer itself, - external libraries and development tools not included in the standard - reference distribution (RedHat 7.2) can be found in - [4]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat. - - GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge, so support requests and bugs may - be filed as usual. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, - and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If - there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary. + [8]http://gstreamer.net/. + +Support + + We use [9]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 [10]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 @@ -103,33 +108,44 @@ Contributors to this release Core - * Erik Walthinsen <omega@temple-baptist.com> - * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@chello.be> - * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org> - * Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> - * Benjamin Otte <in7y118@public.uni-hamburg.de> + * Erik Walthinsen <omega(AT)temple-baptist.com> + * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be> + * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org> + * Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com> + * Benjamin Otte <in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de> + * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk> Plugins and Sample Applications - * Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org> - * David Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu> - * Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net> - * Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> - * Martin Enlund <martin@enlund.net> - * Arik Devens <arik@gnome.org> - * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13@yahoo.fr> - * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147@yahoo.com> - * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org@yahoo.co.uk> - * Rehan Khwaja <rehankhwaja@yahoo.com> + * Richard Boulton <richard(AT)tartarus.org> + * David Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu> + * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net> + * Bastien Nocera <hadess(AT)hadess.net> + * Martin Enlund <martin(AT)enlund.net> + * Arik Devens <arik(AT)gnome.org> + * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr> + * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com> + * Rehan Khwaja <rehankhwaja(AT)yahoo.com> + * Kentarou Fukuchi <fukuchi(AT)is.titech.ac.jp> + * Artyom Baginski <artm(AT)nerve.v2.nl> + * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org> + * Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel(AT)free.fr> Misc - * Christian Schaller <christian.schaller@linuxrising.org> - * Calum Selkirk <cselkirk@panix.com> + * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller + <uraeus(AT)linuxrising.org> + * Calum Selkirk <cselkirk(AT)panix.com> References - 1. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/buildhelp.php - 2. http://gstreamer.net/ - 3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/ - 4. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat/ + 1. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/ + 2. http://urgent.rug.ac.be/thomas/ + 3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/ + 4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ + 5. http://effectv.sourceforge.net/ + 6. http://jackit.sf.net/ + 7. http://www.linphone.org/ortp/ + 8. http://gstreamer.net/ + 9. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ + 10. http://gstreamer.sf.net/ |