GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.8.0 "Pharmaceutical Itch"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce the first 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
      * Dutch, French and Serbian translations
      * Updated to the new core 0.8 subsystems
      * Reworked play and media-info libraries
      * Audio sinks synchronize on timestamps
      * New demuxer: ogg
      * New decoder: theora
      * New elements: rfb, switch, trm, ffmpegcolorspace
      * New sinks: ximagesink, xvimagesink
      * Fixes to all other elements, including audioconvert, interleave, alsa, videotestsrc
      * Portability fixes
      * ChangeLog use
      * Coding style consistency

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 126999 : [API]: "gstreamer-libs-0.7.pc" should be renamed
      * 129299 : complied errors in alsa-lib-1.0.0-0.rc2
      * 131270 : pkg-config-ification patch (alsa, esd, shout2, ogg, speex, .
      * 135921 : speexenc support won't compile with 1.1.x
      * 136590 : mod plugins doesn't work atm
      * 137044 : GConf schemas unreadable

Download

You 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
    
      * Amaury Jacquot
      * Andy Wingo
      * Arwed v. Merkatz
      * Benjamin Otte
      * Brian Cameron
      * Christian Schaller
      * Christophe Fergeau
      * Colin Walters
      * Danilo Segan
      * David I. Lehn
      * David Schleef
      * Iain Holmes
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Jérémy Simon
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Jon Trowbridge
      * Julien Moutte
      * Julio M. Merino Vidal
      * Leif Morgan Johnson
      * Ramon Garcia
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Steve Baker
      * Thomas Canty
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Stefan Kost