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@@ -1,14 +1,44 @@ - GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1] - + GStreamer "Starfleet" 0.5.1 released + + Send a message out accross the sky, + Alien raiders just passed Gemini, + Who will come and save us now? + Who can defend us from their power? + GStreamer! GStreamer! GStreamer! + + Tell the people back at Earth Control, + Send GStreamer legions to save our souls, + always daring and couragous, + ooh! only they can save us. + GStreamer! GStreamer! GStreamer! 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. + GStreamer are API stable at this point. + + This is a development release, in which we test several new features + and change installs and break stuff ! Do not update unless you are a + developer or willing to deal with issues that will crop up. You have + been warned ;) + + 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. + + Our development currently focuses on the following items: + * Increase stability and portability of scheduler + * Add more video editing specific plugins + * Improve plugins currently used by existing applications + * Create language bindings We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific @@ -18,77 +48,29 @@ 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) + * More Solaris Forte fixes + * Updates to documentation 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. + * New non-cothread based scheduler + * API change: s/GST_PAD_QUERY/GST_QUERY/g + * API change: s/GstPadQuery/GstQuery/g 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. + * New ffmpeg-based plugins supporting avi + * Improvements including PAL support for RAW1394 plugin + * lots of misc smaller fixes GStreamer Homepage More details on these features can be found on the project's website, - [3]http://gstreamer.net/. + [2]http://gstreamer.net/. Support and Bugs - We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The + We use [3]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 @@ -98,7 +80,7 @@ gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1 Developers - GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be + GStreamer is [4]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 @@ -114,43 +96,27 @@ Contributors to this release * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be> * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org> - * Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com> - * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk> - * Cameron Hutchison <camh(AT)xdna.net> - * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org> - * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net> + * David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu> + * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org> + * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu> Plugins and Sample Applications - * Richard Boulton <richard(AT)tartarus.org> - * David Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu> + * 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> - * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com> - * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org> - * Charles Schmidt <cbschmid(AT)users.sourceforge.net> - * Goraxe <goraxe@ntlworld.com> - * Colin Walters <walters(AT)gnu.org> - * Kristian Rietveld <kris(AT)gtk.org> + * Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)bigpond.net.au> + * Daniel Fischer <dan(AT)f3c.com> Misc * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org> - * Tim Jansen <tim.jansen(AT)kde.org> - * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu> - * Christian Meyer <chrisime(AT)gnome.org> - - [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. + * Alp Toker <alp(AT)atoker.com> 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/ + 2. http://gstreamer.net/ + 3. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ + 4. http://gstreamer.sf.net/ diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 0705c4d1f..ccaf9e89f 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ AM_MAINTAINER_MODE dnl when going to/from release please set the nano (fourth number) right ! dnl releases only do Wall, cvs and prerelease does Werror too -AS_VERSION(gst-plugins, GST_PLUGINS_VERSION, 0, 5, 0, 3, GST_ERROR="-Wall", GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror") +AS_VERSION(gst-plugins, GST_PLUGINS_VERSION, 0, 5, 1, 0, GST_ERROR="-Wall", GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror") AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,$VERSION) dnl our libraries and install dirs use major.minor as a version |