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GStreamer "Toes Wide Open" 0.4.2 released
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The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
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GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused
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on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of
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GStreamer are API stable at this point.
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Our development currently focus on the following items:
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* Increase stability and portability of scheduler
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* Add more video editing specific plugins
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* Improve plugins currently used by existing applications
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* Create language bindings
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We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
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development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
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check out our [1]applications status page.
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Updates and Enhancements
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General
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* First release made of the Graphical Pipeline Editor, getting to be
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very stable and well working.
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* License field added to factory details field.
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* Further work on Language bindings, with Web pages set up
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describing them
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* gst_caps_check_compatability -> gst_caps_is_always_compatible
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[2]API change.
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* Designing interactive plugins architecture begun.
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* Cleanups for SPEC files for use with Red Hat 8
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* GConf keys provided and extended to set input sources
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* Converted FAQ to docbook and added it to build
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Core
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Plug-ins
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* FLAC plugin updated to work with 1.0.4 release
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* Metadata support and many fixes for Ogg Vorbis plugin
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* Lots of fixes to v4l plugin
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* New wavencoder plugin
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* New shoutcast2 plugin
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* RTP plugin enabled by default
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* Mad plugin now also collects id3 metadata
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* Lots of minor fixes, code cleanups and updates for new versions of
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underlying libraries.
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* Video editing plugins added
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* Snapshot plugin part of default build
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* Major updates to v4l plugin
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* Major updates to avimux plugin
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* New Mpegmuxer plugin
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* Many fixes to cdparanoia plugin
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* Playback of SVCD fixed
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* Moved generic gstplay library from gst-player into gst-plugins
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* Added first cut of new ASF demuxer (still not working)
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Known Issues
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GStreamer currently ships with schedulers based on two cothread
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packages. The 'omega' cothread package is the one we have been
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shipping for a long time now and is still the default in this release.
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There are however some limitations and thread-related bugs in the
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omega scheduler. These limitations are not present in the 'wingo'
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schedulers, but unfortunately it does not work with i686 glibc at this
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time due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to
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other architectures, including i386. A new (third) scheduler (that
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doesn't use cothreads) is being developed.
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As for the bugs in the 'omega' schedulers, we did not feel they
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warranted not releasing 0.4.2 as they are rather obscure. For instance
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if you are using Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs
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nonstop to trigger it. You can choose a different scheduler by passing
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--scheduler=(name) to any GStreamer application.
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Wim Taymans has started work on a new scheduler. The first part is
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already in CVS, but it will probably still be some months before it is
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ready.
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GStreamer Homepage
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More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
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[3]http://gstreamer.net/.
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Support and Bugs
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We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
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"product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following
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before writing a bug report :
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gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
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and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have
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some information useful in the debugging process.
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Developers
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GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be
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checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library,
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plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel
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list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as
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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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Patches to the core of Gstreamer
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* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
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* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
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Plugins and Sample Applications
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* Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
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* Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com>
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* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
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* David Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
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* Cameron Hutchison <camh(AT)xdna.net>
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* Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com>
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* David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
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* Colin Walters <walters(AT)gnu.org>
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* Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
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* Pedro Côrte-Real <typo(AT)netcabo.pt>
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* J<>r<EFBFBD>my Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
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* Julien Moutte <jmoutte(AT)electronic-group.com>
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* Pedro Côrte-Real <typo(AT)netcabo.pt>
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* Owen Fraser-Green <owen(AT)discobabe.net>
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Misc
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* Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
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* Tim Jansen <tim.jansen(AT)kde.org>
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* Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
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* Martin Schulze <>
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* Christian Meyer <chrisime(AT)gnome.org>
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* Alp Toker <pokey(AT)linuxmail.org>
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References
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1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
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2. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1535/25/9758163/
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3. http://gstreamer.net/
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4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
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5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
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