From c320202b4175bc2c3f451d997bc4622c103ee678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Vander Stichele Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:05:50 +0000 Subject: releasing 0.9.1 Original commit message from CVS: releasing 0.9.1 --- RELEASE | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-) (limited to 'RELEASE') diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index ca98ec2c..8e24e407 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,114 +1,73 @@ -GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.7 "Hyperspace" +GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins 0.9.1 "Angel Eyes" -The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release -in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins. +The GStreamer team is petrified to announce a new release +in the 0.9.x development series of the +GStreamer Bad Plug-ins. -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. +The 0.9.x series is a development series and not recommended for 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 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. + +"That an accusation?" + + +No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to +cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B. +They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but +at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel +to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final +showdown. + + +Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights, +patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can +steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two +kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig. +You dig. + + +This module contains a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the +rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something +- be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live +maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be +upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly, +depending on the other factors. +If the plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the +problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you. +New contributors can start here for things to work on. + + +Other modules containing plug-ins are: + + +gst-plugins-base +contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins +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 -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 - * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nb nl or sq sr sv uk - * multichannel audio support - * new element: apetag - * new element: ttadec, ttaparse - * new element: directfbvideosink - * vcd fixes - * playbin fixes - * dvdread fixes - * a52dec fixes - * sunaudiosrc fixes - * osssrc fixes - * avidemux fixes - * licensing updates + * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series + * Threadsafe design and API Bugs fixed in this release - * 147919 : [playbin] broken wav seeking - * 148559 : [monoscope] grinds to a halt - * 149102 : gstreamer license problems - * 149613 : [PATCH}Add proxy server support to the musicbrainz plugin - * 151624 : Multichannel support - * 152339 : [PATCH] [build] gst-plugins cross compiling - * 154773 : [playbin] crashes trying to play short wave files (1 or 2... - * 154775 : [qtdemux] Quicktime movie causing some weird debug spew - * 154814 : Selection of totem crashing videos - * 154815 : [PATCH] ffmpegcolorspace leaks caps - * 155348 : Various MP3 files cannot be detected or played - * 155879 : [libriff] Bug in lib-riff - * 156798 : " An error occured " " Could not write to resource " this sa... - * 157233 : [PATCH] playbin leak fixes - * 158258 : Patch for polypsink to make it work with both threaded an... - * 158382 : [PATCH] [build] debian speex detection patch - * 158650 : [PATCH] [videocrop] video crop is completely buggered - * 158704 : Fix/finish (S)VCD support - * 159215 : [PATCH] Memory leaks in audioscale - * 159296 : Playing benow.mp3 file cause totem to hang on EOS with de... - * 159297 : dark.441-16-s.flac hangs on eos in totem with debug spew - * 159301 : gstreamer.avi file plays, but have broken seeking in totem - * 159338 : alaw/mulaw decoders caps warning - * 159433 : [osssink] doesn't check for supported channels - * 159512 : Progress bar with m4a (aac) broken - * 159651 : [decodebin] totem crash - * 159759 : DVD LCPM asserts - * 159847 : [build] hardcoded path for musepack headers in configure - * 159864 : avidemux sends GST_EVENT_DISCONTINUOUS - * 159986 : [PATCH] Videorate doesn't handle seek and doesn't reset w... - * 160276 : [PATCH] mpegdemux and dvddemux don't reset themselves in ... - * 160439 : Can't compile gst-plugins without GCONF - * 160514 : [avidemux] seek after EOF for truncated avi files (to non... - * 160532 : [avidemux] avi[cvid+PCM] : no image, sound is noise - * 160808 : 'ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to play' when using xvimage... - * 160869 : [playbin] ogg file (theora/vorbis) causes segfault near end - * 161039 : [PATCH] [deinterlace] rowstrides need fixing - * 161538 : [playbin] AVI files with mp3 audio are out-of-sync in pla... - * 161624 : [alsasink] crash at end of playing this file - * 161980 : Volume control applet does not set value correctly. - * 162819 : [audioscale] cleanup - * 162913 : [mms] missing NULL terminator to g_object_set() in uri ha... - * 162924 : [playbin] totem assertion failures when playing cd / pote... - -API changed in this release - - -- API additions: - -* A new cdparanoia property, device, has been added. -* A new dvdnavsrc property, device, has been added. -* A new dvdreadsrc property, device, has been added. -* A new vcdsrc property, device, has been added. - -- API depreciations: - -* A cdparanoia property, location, has been marked for deprecation. -* A dvdnavsrc property, location, has been marked for deprecation. -* A dvdreadsrc property, location, has been marked for deprecation. -* A vcdsrc property, location, has been marked for deprecation. Download -You can find source releases of gst-plugins in the download directory: -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/ +You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download directory: +http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/ GStreamer Homepage @@ -130,34 +89,20 @@ 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 - * Archana Shah - * Arwed v. Merkatz - * Balamurali Viswanathan - * Benjamin Otte + * Andy Wingo * Christian Schaller - * Christophe Fergeau * David Schleef * Edward Hervey - * Iain Holmes - * James Bowes - * Julien Moutte - * Maciej Katafiasz - * Martin Soto + * Jan Schmidt + * Michael Smith + * Philippe Khalaf * Ronald Bultje - * Sebastien Cote * Stefan Kost - * Stephane Loeuillet * Thomas Vander Stichele * Tim-Philipp Müller - * Toni Willberg * Wim Taymans * Zaheer Abbas Merali   \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.1