Release notes for GStreamer Plugins 0.7.4 "For Great Justice" The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release in the 0.7.x development series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework. The goal of this release series is to stabilize towards a 0.8 release series which will be part of the GNOME 2.6 releases and hopefully eventually KDE 4.x. The 0.7 series is a development series and is aimed at developers. It is NOT API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series or with other releases in the series. This means you can not use this release to upgrade your current GStreamer installation and expect your GStreamer applications to keep working without a recompile. It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series. Features of this release * Compatible with gstreamer 0.7.4 * Reworked pad negotiation * Internationalized plugin elements * Reworked error notification with translated error messages and additional debug information for developer feedback * Updated Dutch and French translations * Reworked clocking * Audio sinks synchronize to timestamps * Added marshal and enum headers for libraries * New Ogg demuxer * New Theora decoder * New trm (musicbrainz) element * New switch element * New rfb (remote framebuffer) element * Updated quicktime demuxer * Updated SVQ3 decoding * Updated playback library * Updated flushing from gnomevfs source * Updated X and Xv image sinks * Updated audio conversion elements * Updated flac tag handling * Updated dvdnav element * Updated mplex element * Lots of bugfixes Known issues * MPEG video playback needs to be updated, it doesn't work reliably Download You find source releases of gst-plugins in the [14]gst-plugins download directory. GStreamer Homepage More details can be found on the project's website, [15]http://www.freedesktop.org/~gstreamer. Support and Bugs We use Gnome's bugzilla for [16]bug reports and feature requests. Developers CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org. You can [17]browse the gst-plugins repository. All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary. Applications As mentioned there are some changes in API/ABI between the 0.6.x and 0.7.x releases. Many applications will probably be source compatible between 0.6.x. and 0.7.x however. [18]Rhythmbox and [19]Sound Juicer for instance work very well when compiled on 0.7.x. GStreamer Player does not work across releases however, so we will make a separate release of gst-player with the needed fixes for it to work with 0.7.x. This release contains the core fixes we were waiting for to port the player over so expect a gst-player release in the near future. Contributors to this release * Amaury Jacquot * Arwed v. Merkatz * Benjamin Otte * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller * Colin Walters * David I. Lehn * David Schleef * Iain Holmes * Jan Schmidt * Jérémy Simon * Jon Trowbridge * Julien Moutte * Ronald Bultje * Steve Baker * Thomas Canty * Thomas Vander Stichele References Visible links 14. http://www.freedesktop.org/~gstreamer/src/gst-plugins/ 15. http://www.freedesktop.org/~gstreamer 16. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer 17. http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gstreamer//gst-plugins/ 18. http://www.rhythmbox.org/ 19. http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer