Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.2 "Then the devil is six"

The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release in the 0.10.x stable series of the GStreamer Base Plug-ins.

The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series. It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.

This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other plugins, and helper libraries. This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for their development. This module contains elements for, among others:

• device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
• containers: ogg
• codecs: vorbis, theora
• text: textoverlay, subparse
• sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc
• network: tcp
• typefind
• audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume
• visualisation: libvisual
• video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
• aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin

gst-plugins-good

contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license

gst-plugins-ugly

contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for distributors

gst-plugins-bad

contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect