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GStreamer "GUADEC By Foot" 0.3.3 released
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Preliminary release notes
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The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
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GStreamer streaming-media framework. This is our first release using
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GLib 2.0 and libxml2 as the sole compile platform. We have also
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started including all our documentation in our RPMS starting this
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release. People wanting to build GStreamer themselves with
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documentation should look at the DOCBUILDING file for some information
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on what packages are needed to build that successfully.
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Another new feature of this release is the gst-launch-ext command-line
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application. It uses predefined pipelines to play back media files
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based on their file extension. This means that you don't need to
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construct your own pipelines using gst-launch if all you want to do is
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play a file. Just type gst-launch-ext [filename] and the audiofile or
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movie plays for you. This of course also being a work in progress
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means that sometimes it might decide on the wrong pipeline, or cause
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jitter, as well as random headaches.
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For help building GStreamer, take a look at our [1]build help document
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.
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Updates and Enhancements
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* modplug plugin, plays the same media as mikmod plugin but without
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an external library dependency
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* Ogg Tarkin encoding and decoding plugins
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* New gst-launch-ext commandline tool for more failproof
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mediaplayback
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* Improvements on build system
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* Audio/video masterclock system
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* Problems with .vob playback with autoplugger fixed
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* Fixes in avi and v4l plugins
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* new gstrec plugin for improved video recording
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* Consolidation of number of RPMS
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* More portability work
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* Documentation added to gstreamer RPM
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* Devhelp (http://devhelp.sourceforge.net) books of GStreamer
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documentation added
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* new cothreads package
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+ portable machine context switching code taken from GNU Pth
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(thanks, Ralf!)
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+ new stack allocation methods allow essentially infinite
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number of cothreads with run-time configurability
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+ stack allocation code should be able to run within kernel
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threads of all pthread implementations, unlike old cothreads
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package
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* new scheduler that uses the new cothreads package
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+ uses new cothreads package
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+ allows multiple managing bins (pipelines) within same pthread
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(GThread actually)
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+ pass --gst-scheduler=standard to your app to use
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* capsnego updates to many plugins
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* complete switch to glib2 and libxml
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* popt integration
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* major update of dparams API
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* many updates to the player application, finally
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* Goom visualisation plugin now part of stable build
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* Synaesthesia visualisation plugin now works
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* Monoscope visualisation added
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* ESD Monitor plugin added
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* autogen.sh allows specification of different autoconf/automake
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paths (beta)
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More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
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[2]http://gstreamer.net/. Source tarballs are also mirrored at
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[3]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/. If you use Red Hat (or
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possibly other RPM-based systems), RPMs for both GStreamer itself,
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external libraries and development tools not included in the standard
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reference distribution (RedHat 7.2) can be found in
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[4]http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat.
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GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge, so support requests and bugs may
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be filed as usual. Interested developers of the core library, plugins,
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and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If
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there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary.
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We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix
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and True64 that would be willing to try building and testing
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GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.
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Contributors to this release
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Core
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* Erik Walthinsen <omega@temple-baptist.com>
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* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@chello.be>
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* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org>
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* Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
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* Benjamin Otte <n7y118@public.uni-hamburg.de>
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* Michael Meeks <mmeeks@ximian.com>
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Plugins and Sample Applications
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* Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org>
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* David Lehn <dlehn@vt.edu>
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* Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
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* Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
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* Martin Enlund <martin@enlund.net>
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* Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3@eos.ncsu.edu>
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* Arik Devens <arik@gnome.org>
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* J<>r<EFBFBD>my SIMON <jsimon13@yahoo.fr>
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* Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147@yahoo.com>
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* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org@yahoo.co.uk>
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Misc
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* Christian Schaller <christian.schaller@linuxrising.org>
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* wrobell <wrobell@ite.pl>
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References
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1. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/buildhelp.php
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2. http://gstreamer.net/
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3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/src/
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4. http://gstreamer.net/releases/current/redhat/
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