Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.33 "Relaxing Distractions"

Features of this release

• audioringbuffer: make sure to not start if the may_start flag is FALSE
• baseaudiosink: arrange for running clock when rendering eos
• baseaudiosink: don't allow aligning behind the read-segment
• baseaudiosink: start ringbuffer upon going to PLAYING and already EOS
• riff: Add support for video/x-camstudio
• rtcpbuffer: fix invalid read in validation of padding in rtcp packet
• rtcpbuffer: Round to next 32bit word, not current 32bit word at end of SDES chunk
• rtpbuffer: Off-by-one error when creating RTP header extensions with a two-byte header
• rtsptransport: ensure valid int result when parsing ranges
• tag: map the ID3v2 TENC frame to GST_TAG_ENCODED_BY
• tag: add GST_TAG_CAPTURING_EXPOSURE_COMPENSATION incl. EXIF/XMP mappings
• tag: add a new GstTagXmpWriter interface to select XMP schemas to be used
• tagdemux: also push cached events downstream when operating in pull mode
• video: add GST_VIDEO_BUFFER_PROGRESSIVE flag
• video: add ARGB64 and AYUV64 (16 bits per channel) formats
• video: add r210 (10 bits per channel) format
• video: add gst_video_format_get_component_depth() and _new_template_caps()
• video: fix creation of grayscale caps and height calculation for YUV9/YVU9
• appsink: emit "new-buffer-list" signal for buffer lists if handled by app
• audiorate: add "skip-to-first" property
• decodebin2: don't use the same parser element multiple times in the same chain
• decodebin2: improve detection of raw caps in expose-all-streams=false mode
• discoverer: don't wait for subtitle streams to preroll; leak fixes
• discoverer: use nominal bitrate if bitrate tag is unavailable
• encodebin: add an audioconvert after the audio resampler
• encodebin: fix refcounting issues and leaks related to request pads
• encodebin: return a new reference of the pad for the "request-pad" signal
• encodebin: set all elements to NULL and remove them from the bin when removing a source group
• encodebin: tear down old profiles when setting new ones
• multifdsink: disconnect inactive clients in the select loop too
• oggmux: prefer headers from caps to determine stream type (for VP8)
• oggmux: fix issue with ogg page numbering and discont flag handling
• oggmux: ensure stream serial numbers are unique
• oggmux: use running time for muxing instead of timestamps
• oggparse: better detection of delta unit flag
• playbin2, uridecodebin: add "source-setup" signal
• playbin2: always prefer the custom set sink and also set it back to NULL in all cases
• playbin2: check if an already existing sink supports the non-raw format too
• playbin2: fix handling of non-raw custom sinks
• playbin2: if a sink claims to support ANY caps assume that it only supports the usual raw formats
• playbin2: only consider the audio/video sinks in autoplug_continue for the normal uridecodebin
• playbin2: use gst_pad_accept_caps() instead of intersecting with the getcaps caps
• playbin2: set sinks to READY before checking if it accept caps
• textoverlay: add support for ARGB and other RGB alpha variants, and xBGR and RGBx
• textoverlay: add support for vertical center alignment
• textoverlay: converted AYUV to use 'A OVER B' alpha compositing
• textoverlay: use a class wide mutex to work around pango reentrance issues
• theoraenc: don't reset the video quality when setting the bitrate
• theoraenc: allow adjustment of the speed level while running
• theoraenc: set speed-level property defaults from libtheora's defaults
• typefinding: MPEG-TS detection fixes
• typefinding: detect HTTP live streaming m3u8 playlists
• typefinding: detect windows icon files and DEGAS images (to avoid false positives)
• typefinding: detect raw h.263
• typefinding: add depth and endianness fields to DTS caps
• uridecodebin: Add default handler for autoplug-select
• uridecodebin: add https:// to protocols for which to enable buffering
• uridecodebin: expose "autoplug-sort" signal
• uridecodebin: post proper error message if decodebin2/typefind elements are missing
• uridecodebin: Return NULL from the default autoplug-sort handler
• videorate: fix "skip-to-first" timestamp setup
• videoscale: add 16-bit-channel support (ARGB64, AYUV64), fix ARGB bilinear scaling
• videotestsrc: add 16-bit-per-channel support (ARGB64, AYUV64)
• vorbis: add support for using tremolo on android
• vorbistag: Add support for METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE tags
• vorbistag: Write GST_TAG_IMAGE and GST_TAG_PREVIEW_IMAGE as METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE
• win32: fix DEFAULT_AUDIOSINK, should be direct*sound*sink
• xvimagesink: don't paint the window black when going to NULL

Bugs fixed in this release

• 618516 : [typefinding] need raw H.263 typefinder
• 619778 : oggdemux: fails on zero-length pages with Patent_Absurdity_HD_3540kbit.ogv
• 633837 : videoscale: invalid reads after conversion to orc linear scaling
• 412678 : random segfaults or memory corruptions with multiple textoverlays (pango not reentrant)
• 620364 : [typefinding] .ico file detected as AAC
• 625129 : typefinding: file incorrectly detected as audio/x-dts
• 626152 : [playbin2] add " source-setup " signal
• 627268 : [tag] add GST_TAG_ENCODED_BY and map id3v2 TENC frame
• 629196 : oggmux: re-tagging an Ogg Vorbis file may corrupt audio data
• 632291 : discoverer: sparse tracks cause prerolling to hang till timeout
• 632889 : [multifdsink] [PATCH] Disconnect inactive clients in the select loop too
• 635669 : [vorbistag] Support METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE for Vorbis cover art
• 635784 : ringbuffer: make sure to not start if the may_start flag is FALSE
• 635800 : xvimagesink flashes black when going from READY_TO_NULL
• 636886 : baseaudiosink: no running clock when eos leads to hang in PLAYING
• 639136 : [oggparse]code is not safe when using libogg fuctions
• 639159 : [textoverloay] Add vertical center alignment option
• 639237 : textoverlay: patch to use " A OVER B " alpha compositing
• 639744 : [oggdemux] Removing dead code:
• 640189 : oggmux: cleanup
• 640211 : oggmux: ensure serialnos are unique
• 640607 : appsink never sends " new-buffer-list " signal
• 640709 : [typefindfunctions] h264 typefinder registered with MPEG_VIDEO_CAPS
• 640804 : checks: encodebin test fails if theora or vorbis plugins are not available
• 641706 : discoverer: Keep references on discoverer objects for callbacks
• 641860 : discoverer: Use nominal bitrate if bitrate tag is unavailable
• 641917 : [gdppay] Ensure buffer's medata is writeable before setting it
• 641927 : [encodebin] refcount issue with the " request-pad " signal
• 641952 : [videoscale] assertion on fixate_caps
• 642174 : Playbin2 cannot work with non-raw custom sinks
• 642232 : theoraenc sets Video quality to zero when explicitely setting the bitrate to 0
• 642274 : [playbin2] arbitrary audio-sink is chosen even though explicitely having set a custom audio-sink bin
• 642381 : potential memleak in decodebin2
• 642466 : playbin2: after replacing a video sink with the pipeline in NULL state I still get the old one
• 642720 : audiotestsrc: pipelines with multiple instances with wave=gaussian-noise, white-noise, or pink-noise are very slow
• 642942 : adder: offset_end field of outgoing buffers is set to GST_BUFFER_OFFSET_NONE
• 642949 : pbutils: encoding-target: chaining error object in loading target from file may cause crash if there is no error
• 643775 : [oggmux] use running time instead of timestamps
• 644416 : [encodebin] Cannot be reused
• 644745 : [oggmux] Fails to mux Speex content, doesn't preroll
• 644845 : [alsa] Comparison of unsigned int < 0 always false in gstalsamixer.c
• 644996 : libsABI check doesn't depend only on architecture
• 645167 : [xmp] Add a new XmpConfig interface
• 645437 : encoding-profile: Fix syntax in Example: Creating a profile
• 646570 : baseaudiosink: don't allow aligning behind the read-segment
• 646572 : baseaudiosrc: protect against ringbuffer disappearing while in a query
• 646573 : baseaudiosrc: Add src object lock around call to ringbuffer parse caps
• 646575 : rtcpbuffer: Round to next 32bit word, not current 32bit word at end of SDES chunk
• 646576 : rtcpbuffer: fix invalid read in validation of padding in rtcp packet
• 646923 : video: Remove unused variable
• 646924 : rtp: Remove unused variables
• 646925 : encoding-profile: Remove unused variables
• 646952 : Fix the strlol return type mismatch :
• 647399 : Bad typo in ID3 tags: psychadelic - > psychedelic
• 647721 : Remove excessive checking for video.c
• 647781 : [playbin2] missing shutdown steps and inconsistent error behaviour
• 647856 : [oggmux] Assumes that the first buffer can be used to detect the stream type
• 647857 : [xvimagesink/ximagesink] Handle NULL caps in buffer_alloc()
• 647942 : [pango] Use different Pango contexts for the different subclasses
• 647943 : [pango] Class global pango mutex not always used
• 648459 : tag: exif: register common tags from tag library
• 648466 : Ogg to LPCM transcoding fails
• 648548 : videoscale broken with orc 0.4.13
• 642667 : [playbin2] autoplug-factories code does not do what it claims to do
• 642732 : [playbin2] sinks set to READY after activating groups causes bad autoplug-continue decisions
• 646744 : libgsttag: Minor issues building gst-plugins-base with MS compiler
• 647294 : gst-plugins-base doesn't compile with GCC 4.6

API changes

• API additions
  • gst_tag_list_to_xmp_buffer_full()
  • gst_tag_xmp_list_schemas()
  • gst_tag_xmp_writer_add_all_schemas()
  • gst_tag_xmp_writer_add_schema()
  • gst_tag_xmp_writer_get_type()
  • gst_tag_xmp_writer_has_schema()
  • gst_tag_xmp_writer_remove_all_schemas()
  • gst_tag_xmp_writer_remove_schema()
  • gst_tag_xmp_writer_tag_list_to_xmp_buffer()
  • GST_TAG_CAPTURING_EXPOSURE_COMPENSATION
  • gst_video_format_get_component_depth()
  • gst_video_format_new_template_caps()

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Contributors to this release

• Akihiro Tsukada
• Alessandro Decina
• Andoni Morales Alastruey
• Arun Raghavan
• Bastien Nocera
• Benjamin Otte
• Blaise Gassend
• Cai Yuanqing
• Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
• David Schleef
• Edward Hervey
• Felipe Contreras
• Fraxinas
• Haakon Sporsheim
• Havard Graff
• Håvard Graff
• Josep Torra
• Lane Brooks
• Leo Singer
• Luis de Bethencourt
• Marc Plano-Lesay
• Mark Nauwelaerts
• Mart Raudsepp
• Ole André Vadla Ravnås
• Olivier Crête
• Parthasarathi Susarla
• Pascal Buhler
• Philippe Normand
• Ralph Giles
• Robert Swain
• Sebastian Dröge
• Sjoerd Simons
• Sreerenj Balachandran
• Stefan Kost
• Stian Johansen
• Teemu Katajisto
• Thiago Santos
• Thibault Saunier
• Tim-Philipp Müller
• Trond Andersen
• Vincent Penquerc'h
• Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
• Wim Taymans
• Yang Xichuan
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