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GStreamer "GUADEC By Foot" 0.3.3 released
Preliminary release notes
The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
GStreamer streaming-media framework. This is our first release using
GLib 2.0 and libxml2 as the sole compile platform. We have also
started including all our documentation in our RPMS starting this
release. People wanting to build GStreamer themselves with
documentation should look at the DOCBUILDING file for some information
on what packages are needed to build that successfully.
Another new feature of this release is the gst-launch-ext command-line
application. It uses predefined pipelines to play back media files
based on their file extension. This means that you don't need to
construct your own pipelines using gst-launch if all you want to do is
play a file. Just type gst-launch-ext [filename] and the audiofile or
movie plays for you. This of course also being a work in progress
means that sometimes it might decide on the wrong pipeline, or cause
jitter, as well as random headaches.
For help building GStreamer, take a look at our [1]build help document
.
Updates and Enhancements
* modplug plugin, plays the same media as mikmod plugin but without
an external library dependency
* Ogg Tarkin encoding and decoding plugins
* New gst-launch-ext commandline tool for more failproof
mediaplayback
* Improvements on build system
* Audio/video masterclock system
* Problems with .vob playback with autoplugger fixed
* Fixes in avi and v4l plugins
* new gstrec plugin for improved video recording
* Consolidation of number of RPMS
* More portability work
* Documentation added to gstreamer RPM
* Devhelp (http://devhelp.sourceforge.net) books of GStreamer
documentation added
* new cothreads package
+ portable machine context switching code taken from GNU Pth
(thanks, Ralf!)
+ new stack allocation methods allow essentially infinite
number of cothreads with run-time configurability
+ stack allocation code should be able to run within kernel
threads of all pthread implementations, unlike old cothreads
package
* new scheduler that uses the new cothreads package
+ uses new cothreads package
+ allows multiple managing bins (pipelines) within same pthread
(GThread actually)
+ pass --gst-scheduler=standard to your app to use
* capsnego updates to many plugins
* complete switch to glib2 and libxml
* popt integration
* major update of dparams API
* many updates to the player application, finally
* Goom visualisation plugin now part of stable build
* Synaesthesia visualisation plugin now works
* Monoscope visualisation added
* ESD Monitor plugin added
* autogen.sh allows specification of different autoconf/automake
paths (beta)
More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
[2]http://gstreamer.net/. Source tarballs are also mirrored at
[3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/. If you use Red Hat (or
possibly other RPM-based systems), RPMs for both GStreamer itself,
external libraries and development tools not included in the standard
reference distribution (RedHat 7.2) can be found in
[4]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat.
GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge, so support requests and bugs may
be filed as usual. Interested developers of the core library, plugins,
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
Core
* Erik Walthinsen <omega@temple-baptist.com>
* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@chello.be>
* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org>
* Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
* Benjamin Otte <n7y118@public.uni-hamburg.de>
* Michael Meeks <mmeeks@ximian.com>
Plugins and Sample Applications
* Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org>
* David Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu>
* Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
* Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
* Martin Enlund <martin@enlund.net>
* Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3@eos.ncsu.edu>
* Arik Devens <arik@gnome.org>
* Jérémy SIMON <jsimon13@yahoo.fr>
* Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147@yahoo.com>
* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org@yahoo.co.uk>
Misc
* Christian Schaller <christian.schaller@linuxrising.org>
* wrobell <wrobell@ite.pl>
References
1. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/buildhelp.php
2. http://gstreamer.net/
3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/
4. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat/
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