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Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.11.1

The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the unstable
1.11 release series. The 1.11 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 1.10 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.11 release series
will lead to the stable 1.12 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added
API can still change until that point.


Full release notes will be provided at some point during the 1.11 release
cycle, highlighting all the new features, bugfixes, performance optimizations
and other important changes.


Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.



"That an accusation?"


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.


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.


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.


Other modules containing plugins are:


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)



  

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 696852 : decklinkaudiosrc: does not allow the capture of more than 2 channels of embedded audio on SDI input
      * 711155 : wayland: add DMABuf support to wayland sink
      * 746018 : videoanalyse: doc not updated
      * 751324 : Adds a new Image Quality Assessment plugin.
      * 753003 : glimagesink: GstVideoOverlay crashes on widget resize (NSView / OS X)
      * 755036 : mssdemux: improved live playback support
      * 758232 : Add support for EBU-TT-D / TTML subtitles
      * 760172 : dx9screencapsrc: add " cursor " option to draw the cursor
      * 771992 : player: Cache duration and return cached duration
      * 772357 : srtpdec: add stats readonly property
      * 773473 : kmssink: support display mode setting
      * 773521 : player: add set accurate seek config API
      * 773570 : gstplayer: add media info get  track num API
      * 773932 : vdpsink: Fix memory leak due to usage of Xlib API
      * 773936 : mpdparser: MS PlayReady object parsing support
      * 774035 : qmlglsrc: Support change render target on the fly and move fps calculate into qtglwindow
      * 774112 : mpdparser: MS PlayReady ContentProtection event is truncated
      * 774132 : mpegts: fix typo in GstMpegtsDescriptor docs
      * 774177 : adaptivedemux: improvements for live seeking/duration
      * 774178 : smoothstreaming: support live seeking and reporting the live duration
      * 774196 : mpdparser: Fix timestamp setting on fragment
      * 774223 : opencv: move base opencv filter class and utilities to gst-libs
      * 774357 : mpdparser: Support multiple Period elements in external xml
      * 774400 : gdiscreencapsrc: remove unused local variable
      * 774463 : mpdparser: Allows invalid URI within xlink attributes
      * 774485 : curl: Sometimes upload hangs in case the connection was cut between the client and the HTTP server
      * 774493 : meson: Build waylandsink
      * 774518 : gl/egl: gstglcontext_egl.h removal fallout
      * 774530 : Remove non-ported plugins
      * 774576 : opencv: caps to IplImage format conversion fails for sparse formats
      * 774629 : decklinkvideosrc: Issue " no signal " warnings
      * 774637 : meson: wayland: mark wl_scanner as required: false
      * 774689 : audiobuffersplit: New element that splits raw audio buffers into equal-sized buffers
      * 774850 : decklinksrc: Stop using the " hardware " timestamps and directly use the pipeline clock
      * 774886 : Regression: fatal error: gst/gl/egl/gstglcontext_egl.h: No such file or directory
      * 775171 : glcontext/glwindow: Race when creating/quitting
      * 775248 : rpi,gl: EGLImage creation errors
      * 775293 : schro: #include math.h before schroedinger  headers
      * 775306 : codecparsers: h264parse: improve documentation
      * 775377 : opencv: cvlaplace/cvsobel/edgedetect should use the already mapped outimage
      * 775378 : opencv: facedetect/motioncells has spurious make_writable calls
      * 775379 : aggregator: HTML Documentation does not display it as a class
      * 775409 : interlace: Writing field-order into the src caps
      * 775746 : Threads leaking after freeing up qmlglsink
      * 775791 : waylandsink: lost display when playing a video playlist
      * 775793 : Egl is being deinitialized on qmlglsink cleanup
      * 775967 : ttmlparse: Transform caps event
      * 776047 : opencv: add dewarp plugin
      * 776076 : Fix caps memory leak from pad template creation
      * 776141 : glimagesink: RGB png files don't work on raspberry pi (RGBA is fine)
      * 776317 : gst-project-maker not included in distribution tarball
      * 776352 : dashdemux: Drain remaining buffer in adapter
      * 776399 : configure fails to detect QPA during cross compilation
      * 776431 : dashdemux: Fix regression of On-Demand profile mpd playback
      * 776722 : gl/egl: don't pass a GError to gst_gl_context_egl_choose_config when trying gles2
      * 776727 : x265: fix two minor strings leaks
      * 776787 : Fixed memory leak in usage of gst_pad_template_new() API
      * 776790 : Fixed memory leak in gst module in usage of gst_pad_template_new() API
      * 776900 : decklinkvideosrc: Do not append a zero timecode if none is found on the source
      * 777048 : timecodestamper: Post element message with current timecode
      * 777078 : qmlglsrc: use glBlitFramebuffer to copy texture for GLES3.0
      * 777097 : jpegparse: Chain up to parent class' sink event handler
      * 777121 : urisourcebin: Clear pad from pending list if it was linked
      * 773927 : wayland plugin fails to build
      * 770990 : New Plugin: Add GStreamer plugin for Intel's MediaSDK
      * 774587 : msdk: add decoder
      * 774793 : msdk: add mjpeg encoder/decoder
      * 775726 : msdk: Add H.265 decoder
      * 775288 : opencv: base opencv video filter class does not fully implement the video filter contract
      * 772822 : opencv: reinstate check for opencv contrib, compilation fails without it
      * 774527 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] Move dataurisrc to core

==== Download ====

You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/

The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/

==== Homepage ====

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

Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.

For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
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There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.

==== Developers ====

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
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
    
      * Anton Eliasson
      * Arun Raghavan
      * Chris Bass
      * Daniel Garbanzo
      * Daniel Shahaf
      * David Evans
      * Dongil Park
      * Edward Hervey
      * Fabien Dessenne
      * Fabrice Bellet
      * Florent Thiéry
      * Florian Zwoch
      * Garima Gaur
      * Gaurav Gupta
      * Graham Leggett
      * Guillaume Desmottes
      * Haihua Hu
      * Imre Eörs
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Josep Torra
      * Julien Isorce
      * Luis de Bethencourt
      * Lyon Wang
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Mathieu Duponchelle
      * Matt Staples
      * Matthew Waters
      * Michael Tretter
      * Nicola Murino
      * Nicolas Dufresne
      * Nirbheek Chauhan
      * Olivier Crête
      * Philipp Zabel
      * Philippe Normand
      * Philippe Renon
      * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
      * Scott D Phillips
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sergey Borovkov
      * Seungha Yang
      * Stefan Sauer
      * Stepan Salenikovich
      * Thibault Saunier
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Ursula Maplehurst
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Vivia Nikolaidou
      * Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal