From 762db341097fb275acaac5b9030d25d4c659b10b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Vander Stichele Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:41:27 +0000 Subject: merge back from release Original commit message from CVS: merge back from release --- RELEASE | 157 +--------------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 156 deletions(-) (limited to 'RELEASE') diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index 10acdc1e..f8b085d4 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,156 +1 @@ - - GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1] - - The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the - GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused - on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of - GStreamer are API stable at this point. In preparation of a stable - release, we have also done a thorough license audit to make sure that - the licenses of all plug-ins are properly documented, and that as many - of them as possible are available under the LGPL license that - GStreamer uses. - - 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 - - General - - * Further work on the Graphical Pipeline Editor, getting to be very - stable and well working. - * KDE/Qt bindings created for easier creation of KDE applications on - top of GStreamer - * General C++ bindings for use with gtkmm and other C++ projects - added to gst-bind module (in CVS) - * Effectv and virtualdub based plug-ins relicensed under LGPL - (previously GPL) - * Some manual examples updated and extracted to code (in - examples/manual) - - Core - - * Many memleaks plugged - * Lots of code cleaning - * Many documentation improvements - * Small change to [2]Plugin API - * Removed use of -Wall and -Werror from release tarball for non-gcc - compilers, more permanent solution upcoming. - * Old schedulers renamed: we now use basicomega as the default - scheduler, with the others being fastomega, basicwingo and - fastwingo. - - Plug-ins - - * BSD and Darwin cd playing - * New Mixermatrix plugin added - * New Flash plugin added - * RTP plugin moved back to librtp and plugin now includes library - code (still experimental, check configure --help on how to enable) - * New v4l2 plugins - * Updated v4l plugins - * Improvements to dvdnav plugin - * iRadio support added to gnomevfs plugin - * Median video plugin updated and now working - * Fixed many major bugs in the gnome-vfs library - * Got rid of misleading warnings from plugins - * Avi muxer much improved - * Fix bug in mad plugin that caused loss of frames - * mp3 typefind fixed to properly handle id3v2 tags - -Known Issues - - GStreamer currently ships with schedulers based on two cothread - packages. The 'omega' cothread package is the one we have been - shipping for a long time now and is still the default in this release. - There are however some limitations and thread-related bugs in the - omega scheduler. These limitations are not present in the 'wingo' - schedulers, but unfortunately it does not work with i686 glibc at this - time due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to - other architectures, including i386. A new (third) scheduler (that - doesn't use cothreads) is being developed. - - As for the bugs in the 'omega' schedulers, we did not feel they - warranted not releasing 0.4.1 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. You can choose a different scheduler by passing - --scheduler=(name) to any GStreamer application. - - Wim Taymans has started work on a new scheduler. The first part is - already in CVS, but it will probably still be some months before it is - ready. - -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 - * Thomas Vander Stichele - * Andy Wingo - * Steve Baker - * Cameron Hutchison - * Iain Holmes - * Ronald Bultje - - Plugins and Sample Applications - - * Richard Boulton - * David Lehn - * Jérémy Simon - * Zeeshan Ali Khattak - * David Schleef - * Charles Schmidt - * Goraxe - * Colin Walters - * Kristian Rietveld - - Misc - - * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller - * Tim Jansen - * Leif Morgan Johnson - * Christian Meyer - - [1] It is a little-known fact that the Beatles decided their track - listing for their albums based on a process called the 'GEP' process. - After some initial problems, this worked very well. The only known - failure of this process happened when George Harrison commited the - out-of-place 'Within You Without You' to Sergeant Pepper without - review by the other band members. This near split-up led to one of - their finest songs on the world-reknowned White Album. - -References - - 1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2 - 2. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9557296/ - 3. http://gstreamer.net/ - 4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ - 5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/ +This is a CVS version of gst-plugins -- cgit v1.2.1