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-This is a CVS version of gst-plugins
+
+ GStreamer "Panic Room" 0.5.2 released
+
+ The GStreamer team is happy to announce our final prerelease for the
+ stable 0.6 series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.
+
+ From now on, GStreamer will follow a versioning scheme similar to
+ kernel and GTK+/GLib releases. Odd minor numbers (like for this
+ release) will be development releases. While GStreamer itself is very
+ much under development, during stable releases we will guarantee API-
+ and ABI-stability. The point of this development release cycle is to
+ support Gnome 2.1.x development.
+
+ GStreamer major-minor series versions will now be
+ parallel-installable. Please update your applications to check for
+ gstreamer-0.5, gstreamer-libs-0.5 and gstreamer-play-0.5 using
+ pkg-config.
+
+ We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
+ development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
+ check out our [1]applications status page.
+
+Updates and Enhancements
+
+ Thread issues and GStreamer
+
+ Many of GStreamers features relies heavily on threads. Unfortunately
+ everything is not rosy in the Linux worlds of threads. If you have a
+ glibc version installed compiled with i686 optimizations (which uses a
+ different codepath than standard i386 glibc), there is a good chance
+ you will experience thread-related crashes in gstreamer-based
+ applications. There are a few workarounds to this available.
+ * You can use an i386- or i586-optimized glibc package instead.
+ * You can also try running the gstreamer-based applications using
+ the command-line option --gst-scheduler=opt, which invokes a newly
+ created scheduler that does not use threads. This scheduler is
+ very new however so you might encounter other issues when using
+ it.
+ People using the Red Hat beta Phoebe are recommended to update to
+ glibc from Rawhide. This solves all thread issues, thanks to the
+ new NTPL thread library that is included there.
+ General
+
+ * Solaris Forte fixes, GStreamer now compiles with Forte
+ * FreeBSD build fixes
+ * Many minor build issues fixed
+ * libgstplay updated to use filesrc
+
+ Core
+
+ * Many refcounting issues resolved
+ * A few Valgrind detected memleaks killed
+
+ Plug-ins
+
+ * Fix to OSS plugin to handle blocking correctly [2]Bug 102025.
+ * Wavparse plugin fixed to handle MPEG audio
+ * Swfdec plugin updated, now has sound
+ * Updated ffmpeg plugin to handle xvid movies
+ * modplug updated to work better with gst-player
+ * alsasink 100% cpu bug fixed
+ * pngenc cleaned up
+
+GStreamer Homepage
+
+ More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
+ [3]http://gstreamer.net/.
+
+Support and Bugs
+
+ We use [4]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 [5]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
+ GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.
+
+Contributors to this release
+
+ Patches to the core of Gstreamer
+
+ * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
+ * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
+ * David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
+ * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
+ * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
+ * Brian Cameron <brian.cameron(AT)sun.com>
+
+ Plugins and Sample Applications
+
+ * Cameron Hutchison <camh+gst(AT)xdna.net>
+ * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
+ * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
+ * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
+ * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
+ * Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)mad.scientist.com>
+ * Daniel Fischer <dan(AT)f3c.com>
+ * Martin Schlemmer <azarah(AT)gentoo.org>
+ * Andrew Turner &li;zombie(AT)4free.co.nz>
+
+ Misc
+
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
+ * Alp Toker <alp(AT)atoker.com>
+
+References
+
+ 1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
+ 2. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102025
+ 3. http://gstreamer.net/
+ 4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
+ 5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/