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GStreamer 0.6.3 "Mother Theresa" is out (fwd)

My mail client may have a dubious license but it works reasonably well and
I couldn't be arsed changing.  It also does justifed text fairly
conveniently.

For my own benefit I cleaned up the mail, i figured I may as well forward
a copy.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:25:48 +0200
Subject: GStreamer 0.6.3 "Mother Theresa" is out

Thanks to the people sending in bug reports and patches.

A mangled copy of the release notes is down here  (is there really NO
ONE ELSE who thinks Evolution shouldn't force a 72 char width ???).
Source can be gotten from http://gstreamer.net/releases/0.6.3/src
Binaries will follow soon.



                   GStreamer "Mother Theresa" 0.6.3 released

   The GStreamer team is proud to announce an updated version in the
   ABI-stable 0.6.x series.

   At this point in time GStreamer is fully functional for creating
   audio-based applications, as shown by applications such as
   gnome-sound-recorder, [1]rhythmbox, [2]sound-juicer and
   nautilus-media.

   The video part is known to be somewhat less functional than the audio
   part, but applications such as [3]gst-player works very well, and a
   port of [4]Totem is in progress in GNOME CVS.

   We will also be releasing a development 0.7 release series, in which
   we will work on such things as the remaining issues, such as the
   interactivity support which is needed for DVD menus and SWF (Flash).
   This means developers working on apps needing these services can use
   the 0.7 series for development and then enable 0.6 support as these
   additions optionally get backported to 0.6 once they are stable and
   work well.

   The GStreamer applications we ship all check for both gstreamer-0.6,
   gstreamer-libs-0.6 and gstreamer-play-0.6; if those aren't found the
   0.7 version of those files are checked for. We suggest anyone making
   GStreamer-based apps do the same.

   We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
   development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
   check out our [5]applications status page.

Features

     * Pipeline based media architecture
     * Over 130 plugins
     * All parts interchangeable
     * Few dependencies, only glib, popt and libxml for core (libxml
       optional)
     * Python Language bindings
     * Good documentation
     * Will be widely deployed through bundling with GNOME 2.2
     * Design catering also for applications needing low-latency
     * Highly portable, already running on most mainstream CPU's
     * Modular design and use of 3rd party best of breed libraries means
       no bloat
     * LGPL licensing lays no restrictions on application developers
       licensing.
     * Easy for applications to ship their own plugins to the core as
       needed
     * Compiles with both GCC and Forte compilers
     * Tested to run on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris

Updates since 0.6.3

     * gstreamer (core)

     * #104829:  [6][0.6.3] crash when removing plugin without rerunning
       gst-register
     * #113280: [7][0.6.3] Atomic sparc code needs testing
     * #117786: [8][0.6.3] Can't play files on a read-only NTFS drive
     * #118067: [9][0.6.3] build failure with debugging disabled
     * #118619: [10]please update the online docs
     * #119393: [11]backport m68k fix
     * #117837: [12]docs/libs doesn't build properly
     * #120741: [13][PATCH] xml registry typefinding is recursive and can
       lead t
     * #116146:  [14]opt scheduler doesn't set event handler on
       unconnected src p

     gst-plugins
     * #94113: [15][0.6.3] spider doesn't detect type of mp3 stream
     * #115965: [16]dvdnavsrc plug-in isn't updated against 0.1.9
     * #114948: [17]make install fails at gst-libs/ext/ffmpeg
     * #114976:  [18][0.6.3/patch] videotestsrc and xvideosink do not
       reset their
     * #116416:  [19]vorbis metadata:  use fields compatible with most
       players
     * #116420:  [20]lame metadata:  write id3 v1 and v2 tags in encoded
       files
     * #119372: [21][0.6.3] [patch] mpeg2 identification bug
     * #116152: [22]modplug doesn't handle state changes properly
     * #119105: [26][0.6.3/patch] gst-plugins build fails due to warnings
and -Werror

GStreamer Homepage

   More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
   [23]http://gstreamer.net/.

Support and Bugs

   We use [24]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
   "product name"  is GStreamer (capital G).  Please do the following
   before writing a bug report : gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1

   and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have
   some information useful in the debugging process.

Developers

   GStreamer is [25]hosted on SourceForge. 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.

   We are still looking for people with access to FreeBSD, Solaris,
   HP-UX, Irix and True64 that would be willing to try building and
   testing GStreamer.  Patches fixing such problems are also more than
   welcome.

Contributors to this release

  Patches to the core of GStreamer

     * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
     * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
     * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
     * Benjamin Otte <in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de>
     * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
     * David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
     * Hidetoshi Tajima <hidetoshi.tajima(AT)sun.com>
     * Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu(AT)pobox.com>
     * Christophe Fergeau <teuf(AT)users.sourceforge.net>

  Plugins and Sample Applications

     * Julien MOUTTE <jmoutte(AT)electronic-group.com>
     * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com>
     * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
     * Ross Burton <r.burton(AT)180sw.com>
     * Martin Janzen <janzen(AT)pixelmetrix.com>

  Misc

     * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>

References

   1. http://www.rhythmbox.org/
   2.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-April/msg00046.html
   3. http://gstreamer.net/releases/gst-player/0.5.0/
   4. http://www.hadess.net/totem.php3
   5. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
   6. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104829
   7. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113280
   8. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117786
   9. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118067
  10. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118619
  11. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119393
  12. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117837
  13. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120741
  14. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116146
  15. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94113
  16. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115965
  17. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114948
  18. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114976
  19. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116416
  20. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116420
  21. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119372
  22. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116152
  23. http://gstreamer.net/
  24. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
  25. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
  26. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119105


Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://davedina.apestaart.org/ <-*- thomas
(dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> Buffy ... If I wanted to fight, you could
tell by the being dead already <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*->



Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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