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Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins 0.10.18 "Extra Life"

The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release in the 0.10.x stable series of the GStreamer Ugly 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.

"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

There are times when the world needs a color between black and white. Quality code to match the good's, but two-timing, backstabbing and ready to sell your freedom down the river. These plug-ins might have a patent noose around their neck, or a lock-up license, or any other problem that makes you think twice about shipping them.

We don't call them ugly because we like them less. Does a mother love her son less because he's not as pretty as the other ones ? No - she commends him on his great personality. These plug-ins are the life of the party. And we'll still step in and set them straight if you report any unacceptable behaviour - because there are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: those with a rope around their neck and the people who do the cutting.

This module contains a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems. Distributors should check if they want/can ship these plug-ins.

Other modules containing plug-ins are:

gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-bad
contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect

Features of this release

  • amrwbdec: avoid stalling on invalid frame
  • asfpacket: don't rely on data from duration extension
  • dvdsubdec: Implement clipping if the video size is smaller than the subpicture size
  • dvdsubdec: Output only a single buffer per subpicture and set the correct duration
  • lamemp3enc: implement sinkpad get_caps() function to proxy rate and channels restrictions from downstream
  • mad: build the mad plugin even if libid3tag is not available
  • mpeg2dec: do not fail fatally when downstream is unlinked (let upstream handle that)
  • mpeg2dec: don't deadlock when setting an index
  • mpegstream: increase allowable gap between streams
  • x264enc: allow changing the bitrate and quantitizers dynamically
  • x264enc: don't register flags with a value of 0
  • x264enc: implement getcaps function to proxy downstream caps restrictions upstream
  • x264enc: make tag event writable before modifying tag list in place
  • x264enc: set max bitrate in quality mode

Bugs fixed in this release

  • 539708 : [mpegstream] Increase allowable gap between streams
  • 607698 : asfdemux: fix parsing of packets with padding
  • 619136 : [dvdsubdec] spits out buffers at video framerate
  • 621663 : x264enc: support changing bitrate property on the fly
  • 639291 : [xingmux] Return NULL instead of 0 for a function returning gboolean
  • 639715 : amrparse: seek error with EOS
  • 640272 : x264enc: make tag event writable before modifying tag list in place
  • 641151 : lame: doesn't negotiate sample rate properly
  • 642360 : x264enc: Don't register flags which have 0 as a value
  • 644704 : [dvdsubedc] no SPU clipping implemented
  • 647709 : mpeg2dec: errors out on not-linked flow return

Download

You can find source releases of gst-plugins-ugly in the gst-plugins-ugly 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-ugly 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.

Applications

Contributors to this release

  • Brendan Le Foll
  • Edward Hervey
  • Luis de Bethencourt
  • Mark Nauwelaerts
  • Miguel Angel Cabrera Moya
  • Olivier Crête
  • Sebastian Dröge
  • Sjoerd Simons
  • Stefan Kost
  • Thibault Saunier
  • Tim-Philipp Müller
  • Vincent Penquerc'h
  • Yang Xichuan

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