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@@ -1,80 +1,65 @@ +This is GStreamer gst-plugins-bad 1.12.5. -Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.12.4 - -The GStreamer team is proud to announce the fourth bugfix release in the stable +The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the fifth bugfix release in the stable 1.12 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! - This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.12.x. For a -full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. - +full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla and the release notes. -See /releases/1.12/ for the full release notes. +The 1.12 stable series is now superseded by the 1.14 stable series, and 1.12.5 +will likely be the last bugfix release in the 1.12 series. +Full release notes can be found at: -"That an accusation?" + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.12/#1.12.5 +Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly +after the release. -No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to -cover up the truth - these plugins 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. +This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction +with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience. + - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins -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. + - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional + media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio, + video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc. + - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred + license -This module contains a set of plugins 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 plugins 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. + - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose + problems for distributors + - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made + their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one + reason or another. Many of these are are production quality + elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit + tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing + we expect yet. -Other modules containing plugins are: + - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is + where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders + for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc. + - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using + VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware. -gst-plugins-base -contains a basic set of well-supported plugins -gst-plugins-good -contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license -gst-plugins-ugly -contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for - distributors -gst-libav -contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg) + - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for + embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax + implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi. + - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP - - - -Bugs fixed in this release - - * 784593 : aggregator: Invalidate pad's tail position ... - * 787293 : glimagesink: met segment fault when exit app on wayland - * 787942 : ttmlparse: Doesn't implement default showBackground behaviour - * 789999 : hlsdemux: Fix memory leak caused by double buffer map - * 790042 : waylandsink: memory leak of shm allocator - * 790812 : dashdemux: Segmentation fault coredump issue with xlink external AdaptationSet - * 791258 : amcvideoenc: when flushing, better handle IllegalStateException received from getOutputBuffer + - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing ==== Download ==== -You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download -directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/ +You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download +directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at -http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/ +https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/ ==== Homepage ==== @@ -83,7 +68,7 @@ The project's website is https://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 +https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. @@ -99,20 +84,3 @@ from there (see link above). Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. - - -Contributors to this release - - * Chris Bass - * Edward Hervey - * Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - * Jun Xie - * Mathieu Duponchelle - * Matthew Waters - * Ponnam Srinivas - * Sebastian Dröge - * Shinya Saito - * Thiago Santos - * Ursula Maplehurst - * Vivia Nikolaidou -
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