Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.26 "You will know when you get there"

Features of this release

• playbin2: make about-to-finish signal work for raw sources (e.g. audio CDs)
• playbin2: fix handling of the native audio/video flags
• playbin2: add flag to enable decodebin buffering
• playbin2: make subtitle error handling more robust and ignore late errors
• playbin2: improve subtitle passthrough in uridecodebin
• playbin2: new subtitleoverlay element for generic subtitle overlaying
• playbin2: proxy notify::volume and notify::mute from the volume/mute elements (or audio sink)
• playbin2: don't stop completely on initialization errors from subtitle elements; instead disable the subtitles and play the other parts of the stream
• decodebin2: rewrite autoplugging and how groups of pads are exposed
• uridecodebin: add use-buffering property that will perform buffering on parsed or demuxed media.
• GstXOverlay: flesh out docs and add example for use with Gtk+ >= 2.18
• libgsttag: add utility functions for ISO-639 language codes and tags (packagers: this entails a new soft dependency on the iso-codes package)
• oggdemux: use internal granulepos<->timestamp mapper and make oggdemux more like a 'normal' demuxer that outputs timestamps
• oggdemux: seeking improvements
• subparse: add qttext support
• ffmpegcolorspace: prefer transforming alpha formats to alpha formats and the other way around
• libgstvideo: add functions to create/parse still frame events.
• theoraenc: make the default quality property 48.
• videotestsrc: add pattern with out-of-gamut colors
• theora: port to 'new' theora 1.0 API; make misc. existing properties have no effect (quick, keyframe-mindistance, noise-sensitivity, sharpness, keyframe_threshold); those either never worked or aren't needed/provided/useful any longer with the newer API
• typefinding: misc. performance improvements and fixes
• baseaudiosink: make drift tolerance configurable

Bugs fixed in this release

• 507131 : GStreamer does not play short ogg sounds
• 583376 : [typefind] Detects MP3 as h264
• 344013 : [oggdemux] use parsers to suck less
• 598114 : build overwrites interfaces/interfaces-enumtypes.h with wrong enumtypes
• 344706 : [playbin] problem changing subtitles and language
• 350748 : [ffmpegcolorspace] ffmpeg colorspace should prefer RGBA over RGB
• 499181 : audiorate inserting samples (due to rounding errors ?)
• 524771 : Can't seek in YouTube videos
• 537050 : [playbin2] QOS event problems
• 542758 : [playbin2] Hangs in PLAYING forever if caps are not a subset of pad template caps
• 549254 : [playbin/decodebin] Doesn't handle pads that are added much later than the other(s) correctly
• 563828 : [decodebin2] Complains about loops in the graph when demuxer output requires another demuxer
• 568014 : oggdemux/theoradec doesn't play last video frame
• 570753 : [playbin] Support subtitle renderers additional to subtitle parsers
• 574289 : [decodebin2] race in state change to PAUSED
• 577326 : tcpclientsrc stops working if set to PLAYING, PAUSED and PLAYING again
• 579394 : [playbin2] deadlock with wavpack files: type_found - > analyze_new_pad - > no_more_pads
• 584441 : [playbin2] if suburi preroll fails with error, playback should continue
• 584987 : [playbin2] [gapless] Fire a track-changed message on track change.
• 585681 : Subtitle selector doesn't work
• 585969 : [playbin2] [gapless] Position/Duration information mismatch on track change
• 587704 : " GstDecodeBin2: This appears to be a text file " error when playing files from a samba share
• 591625 : [alsasrc] odd timestamping on start
• 591662 : [playbin2] can't handle both text subtitles and subpictures
• 591677 : Easy codec installation is not working
• 591706 : [playbin2] Support of files with subtitle subpicture streams
• 594729 : theora: Convert to libtheora 1.0 API
• 595123 : [playbin2] Should hide the difference between subtitles and subpictures
• 595401 : gobject assertion and null access to volume instance in playbin
• 595427 : avoid x event thread if not needed
• 595849 : Fix Y41B strides in videotestsrc and gstvideo
• 596159 : rtspsrc hangs when connecting over http tunneled rtsp
• 596694 : [typefind] Detects quicktime as mp3
• 596774 : Speed up subtitle display after seek/switch
• 596981 : [audioresample] Compilation failure due to warning about use of %lu for guint64 variable
• 597537 : [streamvolume.c]The cube root function is not defined in Microsoft's CRT
• 597539 : [gststrpconnection.c] 'close' is not defined in Microsoft's CRT
• 597786 : [tag] enhance gst_tag_freeform_string_to_utf8 to handle 16-bit Unicode
• 598288 : [decodebin2] Plays a wav file but issues an error
• 598533 : [decodebin2] Post element message with the stream topology on the bus
• 598936 : DKS subtitle format
• 599105 : [baseaudiosink] Remove pulsesink < 0.10.17 hack after gst-plugins-good release
• 599154 : RtpAudioPayload can send out buffers that are not exact multiple of the frame size
• 599266 : Requires restart after installing codecs
• 599471 : uridecodebin: Store unused decodebin2 instances for further usage.
• 599649 : Support for frame-based subtitles using playbin2 and subparse
• 600027 : [playbin2,playsink] Should notify about volume/mute changes
• 600370 : [subtitleoverlay] New element to overlay video with subtitles in every supported format
• 600469 : gdpdepay: Clear adapter on flush and state change
• 600479 : Deadlock when playing movie with subtitles
• 600726 : [queue2] implement buffering-left argument to buffer messages
• 600787 : playbin2 has a problem with Ogg stream with " info "
• 600945 : silence buffers at start reusing pulsesrc
• 600948 : [uridecodebin] Improve all raw caps detection on pads
• 601104 : [cddabasesrc] always plays first track if device is specified
• 601627 : theoradec breaks timestamps
• 601772 : gst-rtsp-server crashing : bug fixed
• 601809 : seek example doesn't work with csw
• 601942 : Add a still-frame event to libgstvideo
• 602000 : [playbin2] [gapless] Does state change PLAYING- > PAUSED- > PLAYING while it should stay in PLAYING
• 602225 : Can't play another movie after using subtitles
• 602790 : New oggdemux parsers break theora/vorbis playback
• 602834 : [ffmpegcolorspace] does un-necessary conversion from RGB to ARGB
• 602924 : Text subtitle rendering regression
• 602954 : [oggdemux] can't get first chain on ogg/theora stream
• 603345 : [playbin2] textoverlay refcount issues in git
• 603357 : [subparse] support for QTtext
• 605100 : GNOME Goal: Remove deprecated glib symbols
• 605219 : Freezes nearly always when switching Audio CDs
• 605960 : new examples require GTK 2.18
• 606050 : Implement ptime support
• 606163 : textoverlay: Ignore zero framerate
• 606687 : playbin2: can't see video after setting native flags
• 606744 : Totem fails to play video file: " Can't display both text subtitles and subpictures. "
• 606926 : Vorbis: Implement Proper Channel Orderings for 6.1 and 7.1 Configurations
• 607116 : [playbin2] no 'about-to-finish' signal with audio CDs
• 607226 : Disallow setting the playbin uri property in state > = PAUSED
• 607381 : GST_FRAMES_TO_CLOCK_TIME() GST_CLOCK_TIME_TO_FRAMES() should round result
• 607403 : rtpaudiopayload: ptime is in milli-seconds, convert to nanosecs
• 607569 : Playing a chained ogg stream from HTTP pauses or freezes between songs
• 607652 : segfault with an ogg annodex file
• 607848 : typefind wrong classifies mp4 file as mp3
• 607870 : [oggdemux] OGM parsing broken
• 607926 : [oggdemux] regression with certain chained ogg stream
• 607929 : [oggdemux] regression: headers pushed twice at the beginnign of each stream
• 608167 : [decodebin2] Doesn't push out full topology
• 608179 : caps filter appearing after adder results in deadlock
• 608446 : [playbin2] post an error message if no URI is set
• 608484 : [playbin2] problem with redirect and reset to READY
• 608699 : [oggdemux] memory leak while demuxing
• 609252 : [theoradec] Doesn't handle unknown pixel aspect ratio properly
• 596078 : Playbin2 takes ref of audio-/video-sink parameter
• 596183 : decodebin2: Rewrite autoplugging and how groups of pads are handled
• 601480 : [playback] Update factory lists not only after going back to NULL
• 596313 : gstv4lelement.c:168: error: ‘client’ may be used uninitialized in this function
• 606949 : [playbin2] verify type of volume property before using it

API changes

• API additions
  • gst_rtcp_sdes_name_to_type()
  • gst_rtcp_sdes_type_to_name()
  • gst_tag_get_language_name()
  • gst_tag_get_language_codes()
  • gst_tag_get_language_code_iso_639_1()
  • gst_tag_get_language_code_iso_639_2B()
  • gst_tag_get_language_code_iso_639_2T()
  • gst_video_event_new_still_frame()
  • gst_video_event_parse_still_frame()

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Contributors to this release

• Benjamin M. Schwartz
• Benjamin Otte
• Brijesh Singh
• Christian Schaller
• David Schleef
• Edward Hervey
• Iago Toral
• Jan Schmidt
• Jonathan Matthew
• Josep Torra
• Josep Torra Valles
• Julien Moutte
• Kipp Cannon
• Mark Nauwelaerts
• Mark Yen
• Mart Raudsepp
• Olivier Crête
• Patrick Radizi
• Peter Kjellerstedt
• Robert Swain
• Sebastian Dröge
• Sreerenj B
• Stefan Kost
• Thiago Santos
• Thijs Vermeir
• Tim-Philipp Müller
• Tommi Myöhänen
• Vincent Penquerc'h
• Wim Taymans