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Release notes for
GStreamer Base Plugins 1.6.1
The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first bugfix release in the stable
1.6 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.6.0. For a
full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla.
See /releases/1.6/
for the full release notes.
This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
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, giosrc
- network: tcp
- typefind functions
- audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
- visualisation: libvisual
- video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
- high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
- libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
Other modules containing plugins are:
- gst-plugins-good
- contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
- gst-plugins-ugly
- contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
distributors
- gst-plugins-bad
- contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
and/or unit tests
- gst-libav
- contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
Bugs fixed in this release
-
752705
: rtpbuffer: Add map flag to skip padding
-
754459
: decodebin: fix event leak with validate.hls.playback.play_15s.hls_bibbop scenario
-
754567
: video: gst_video_calculate_display_ratio() should have out parameter
-
754980
: audiobasesink: audio skipping when playing it repeatedly.
-
755494
: gst-plugins-base fails to build with --with-pkg-config-path
-
755770
: decodebin: Free unlinked chains at time of switching chains
-
755867
: playsink: fix leak of audio sink
-
755875
: subparse: < / i > should be handled like < /i >
-
756611
: playbin: Leak of playbin on errors from the source element
-
756893
: video: Missing closing parenthesis in video overlay composition cast macros
Download
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
.
Homepage
The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org.
Support and Bugs
We use GNOME's bugzilla for
bug reports and feature requests.
Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
Find us on IRC at #gstreamer.
Developers
Git is hosted on git.freedesktop.org. You can
browse the gst-plugins-base repository.
All code is in Git and can be checked out from there.
Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
Contributors to this release
- Guillaume Desmottes
- Matthew Waters
- Pavel Bludov
- Perry Hung
- Rajat Verma
- Sebastian Dröge
- Stian Selnes
- Tim-Philipp Müller
- Vineeth TM
- Wim Taymans
- eunhae choi
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