Release notes for GStreamer Editing Services 1.2.0

Features of this release

Bugs fixed in this release

• 673040 : [pitivi] xptv formatter does not load project settings and metadata
• 651806 : Implement Video compositing and Audio Mixing
• 432662 : [pitivi] Cache/save discoverer information in formatters
• 644943 : Integration of a pitivi formatter in GES
• 645385 : Transitions act randomly depending on the video codec in use.
• 646293 : GESTimelineLayer and GESSimpleTimelineLayer don't take gaps into account.
• 669827 : [pitivi] [ges] Inserting at the end of the timeline sometimes deadlocks
• 669959 : Switching from an automatic crossfade transition to another type does not work
• 672751 : Error messages after removing object from track [pitivi]
• 673038 : [pitivi] Broken/nonsensical playback with pitivi projects
• 673714 : Saving/loading projects with empty timeline doesn't work [pitivi]
• 677048 : ges-launch hangs up
• 679941 : No permissions / sanity checks when trying to use formatter save functions
• 681774 : [pitivi] Support setting the background color and alpha channel for colors in TitleSource
• 692864 : Fails to build with Automake 1.13 due to deprecated macro AM_CONFIG_HEADER
• 695267 : Bad GST_DEBUG_OBJECT invocations
• 696226 : XML generated by the formatters (such as xges) is not indented
• 701115 : Fails to build on Windows because of unconditionally including unistd.h
• 702424 : build: Fixes out of source directory build.
• 702426 : deadlock : timelinepipeline lock dyn vs timeline lock dyn
• 702605 : project: move enable update before the formatter is removed.
• 703152 : Crash on split when run from PiTiVi
• 706855 : Remove custom clips and related code
• 707914 : gst_buffer_unref() not required for gst_sample_get_buffer()
• 709777 : [GES] Can't play videos with PCM (raw) audio
• 710168 : ges-video-source: Negotiation problem for interlaced videos
• 710172 : ges-formatter.h: 'class' usage as function argument name breaks build with c++ compilers
• 710390 : gst-editing-services: several memory leaks
• 721111 : Segfault while re-importing a clip that was removed
• 724337 : segfault when loading an xges
• 726365 : ges-smart-adder.c:47:57: error: expected ')' before ';' token
• 678558 : Implement GESMaterials
• 663869 : GesTimelinePipeline could provide API ala playbin2 to set and get the audio and video preview sinks

Download

You can find source releases of gst-editing-services in the gst-editing-services download directory.

The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at git.freedesktop.org .

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Developers

Git is hosted on git.freedesktop.org. You can browse the gst-editing-services repository.

All code is in Git and can be checked out from there.

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Applications

Contributors to this release

• Alexandru Băluț
• Andreas Schwab
• Dan Williams
• Edward Hervey
• Kishore Arepalli
• Lubosz Sarnecki
• Mathieu Duponchelle
• Sebastian Dröge
• Stefan Sauer
• Thibault Saunier
• Tim-Philipp Müller