Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.1.1

Features of this release

Bugs fixed in this release

• 700342 : decodebin: Crashes and deadlocks when setting to READY while still autoplugging
• 690197 : alsasrc: gets stuck in infinite loop if usb audio device is disconnected while being used
• 697112 : GLTextureUploadMeta: No support for multi-texture formats
• 634407 : decodebin should expose pads in a deterministic order
• 636753 : pbutils function to map (container) caps to filename extension
• 654830 : discoverer, uridecodebin, encodebin and multiple audio streams
• 663350 : theoraenc: do not reset the encoder when we need a keyframe
• 665751 : video: define for formats supported by gst_video_overlay_composition_blend()
• 676884 : audiotestsrc: segment one sample too short due to rounding errors
• 678892 : uridecodebin: differentiate between no URI handler found and URI not accepted by handler
• 679456 : videodecoder: fix compiler optimization hint macro usage
• 681719 : audiovisualizer does not handle VideoMeta
• 685637 : [audioresample] Performance improvements & ARM NEON support
• 687146 : rtpbasedepay: remove unused variable
• 687284 : audioconvert: prefer output formats with the same depth or at least a higher depth
• 687466 : audiobasesink: use the same type as the internal type to return it
• 687472 : video-blend: fix memory leak
• 687817 : textoverlay: support shaded background drawing for all formats
• 689326 : multifdsink: document that adding fd in NULL is not allowed
• 689845 : Encodebin API to handle multiple streams lacking
• 690240 : encodebin: remove test of encoder name vs preset name
• 690591 : No decoder available for type 'audio/x-avi-unknown, codec_id=(int)65534'.
• 690994 : videodecoder: Allow parse function to not use all data on the adapter
• 691072 : decodebin: Doesn't expose pads if no data is received before EOS
• 692358 : appsrc deadlock setting the pipeline to NULL state
• 692613 : tests: reduce number of wake-ups in test applications
• 692930 : avidemux: add raw 8-bit monochrome
• 693302 : decodebin: g_mutex_new is deprecated
• 693401 : gstdecodebin2 doesn't set send event on pad before exposing pad
• 693484 : uridecodebin: query URI to source element and fallback to decoder's URI
• 693750 : Riffmedia doesn't set systemstream=false for some video/mpeg caps
• 693862 : Crash in videoscale (with Orc enabled) on Raspberry Pi
• 694346 : pbutils, typefinding: improve handling of MVC/SVC H.264 streams
• 694389 : non flushing seeks after a segment done, don't sync the ringbuffer
• 694443 : libgstaudio: add support for AAC pass-through
• 694553 : adder: rhythmbox crossfading stopped working after commit a86ca53
• 695203 : xvimagesink: crash in gst_xvimagesink_xvimage_put() with HLS bip-bop stream after a while
• 695276 : libsabi test needs an update for i386
• 695540 : riff: support raw avi with negative height
• 695658 : build: Link libgstrtsp-1.0.so to libm for pow()
• 695660 : appsink: update the emit-signal description
• 695832 : audio: a print causes a floating point exception
• 696100 : videoconvert/videoscale: broken conversion for interlaced Y41B
• 696411 : audiotestsrc: incorrect data size in last buffer
• 696550 : riff: add " note " tag
• 696598 : decodebin pads no longer match order in file
• 696818 : rtsprange: use gst_util_gdouble_to_guint64 in get_seconds
• 696915 : decodebin: get_sticky event STREAM_START fails on newly-exposed pad
• 696916 : videofilter doesn't add caps in pool config
• 697628 : ximagesink: Compile error without HAVE_XSHM
• 697631 : videoscale and videoconvert unit tests need to be updated for latest changes
• 697665 : Add format=WMV3 for WMV 3 video
• 697672 : VP8 passed through rtpbin decodes a single frame and then fails to decode until a key frame passed through
• 697723 : audioringbuffer: Reset segdone when releasing audioringbuffer
• 697808 : sdp: add boxed type for GstSDPMessage
• 698277 : Use gst_plugin_feature_rank_compare() API instead of duplicating the code in many places
• 698410 : Adder: Can not send flush_start and flush_stop in a row
• 698558 : sdp: make it possible to modify session/media attributes
• 698712 : playbin: autoplug video decoder and sink based on caps features
• 698851 : playbin: ability to mix or play multiple audio and text streams simultaneously
• 698888 : SDP session bandwidth not duplicated, causing segfault when freeing...
• 699124 : vorbisdec: crash on shutdown in webkit unit test
• 699187 : videorate: ends up outputting buffers with incorrect duration
• 699470 : dmabuf: handle mmap failure
• 699563 : dmabuf: fix formating
• 699565 : dmabuf: fix memory initialization
• 699566 : dmabuf: don't touch the GstMemory size
• 699744 : alsasrc: timestamps provided by audiosrc subclass not used when running under slave clock
• 699792 : oggmux: Never emitting EOS in GES
• 699894 : videoencoder: Caps event sent before stream-start
• 699960 : videodecoder: Reordering sticky events
• 699971 : oggmux: Sends a segment event before sending a caps event.
• 700006 : audio/video: base classes have suboptimal error handling when allocating a buffer not via a bufferpool
• 700222 : rtpbasepayload: Need to delay segments event after caps event
• 700259 : audio: fix buffer overflow for channels > 64
• 700272 : playback: Use subset checks instead of intersections
• 700324 : playbin hangs trying to play 4K video, and hangs again on interrupt
• 700377 : video: add NV16 pixel format support
• 700400 : video: can't build without orc support - implicit declaration of function 'video_orc_pack_NV16'
• 700411 : dmabuf: Make sure that memory is unmapped before releasing it
• 700413 : ximagesink: add alpha mask support
• 700427 : dmabuf: set the initial memory size to the full size
• 701202 : playsink: Badly initialized contrast/brightness
• 701234 : SIGSEGV in videoconvert_convert_free when using fastpath
• 701316 : rtspconnection: using g_pollable_stream_read and write breaks builds on Ubuntu and Debian stable
• 589242 : videoconvert: need special handling for interlaced I420
• 648359 : baseaudiosrc: ringbuffer: segbase/segdone not updated when ring buffer cleared leads to incorrect timestamps

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You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the gst-plugins-base download directory.

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

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Contributors to this release

• Akihiro Tsukada
• Alessandro Decina
• Alexander Schrab
• Andoni Morales Alastruey
• Anton Belka
• Arnaud Vrac
• B.Prathibha
• Benjamin Gaignard
• Brendan Long
• Carlos Rafael Giani
• Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
• Daniel Drake
• David Schleef
• David Svensson Fors
• Dirk Van Haerenborgh
• Edward Hervey
• Emanuele Aina
• Evan Nemerson
• Greg Rutz
• Jan Schmidt
• Jan Schole
• Jihyun Cho
• Jonas Holmberg
• Jonathan Liu
• Jose Antonio Santos Cadenas
• Josep Torra
• Julien Moutte
• Marc Leeman
• Martin Pitt
• Matej Knopp
• Mathieu Duponchelle
• Matthew Waters
• Michael Olbrich
• Miguel Angel Cabrera Moya
• Nicola Murino
• Nicolas Dufresne
• Ognyan Tonchev
• Olivier Crête
• Patricia Muscalu
• Paul HENRYS
• Pete Beardmore
• Philippe Normand
• Rasmus Rohde
• Rico Tzschichholz
• Sebastian Dröge
• Sebastian Rasmussen
• Simon Berg
• Sreerenj Balachandran
• Stefan Sauer
• Thiago Santos
• Thibault Saunier
• Thijs Vermeir
• Thomas Scheuermann
• Tim-Philipp Müller
• Tom Greenwood
• Vincent Penquerc'h
• Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
• Wim Taymans
• yanghuolin