Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins 0.10.17 "Raised by Wolves" 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. "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 * asfdemux: Handle new type of DRM'd asf files * dvdreadsrc: fix handling of multi-angle streams * dvdreadsrc: improve error messages on read errors * mad: if gst_pad_alloc_buffer() returns a buffer with the wrong size allocate a new one * mad: support reverse playback * mpeg2dec: convert the position to stream time before answering to a position query * mpeg2dec: fix position query by trusting upstream * mpeg2dec: refactor cropping code to use libgstvideo functions * mpeg2dec: use gst_pad_alloc_buffer() when cropping buffers * mpegparse: re-fix flow return handling * rmdemux: set GST_BUFFER_FLAG_DELTA_UNIT properly * x264enc: add a note to the docs about encoder latency and queues * x264enc: also accept YV12 input * x264enc: Handle codec/encoder tags * x264enc: Work around a rate control issue in libx264 * x264: use pkg-config to locate libx264 * x264: vbv-buf-capacity should have a minimum of 0 * xingmux: Don't ignore WRONG_STATE and NOT_LINKED when pushing data downstream Bugs fixed in this release * 539254 : [dvdreadsrc] DVDs with multiple angles switch angles during read * 571146 : mpeg2dec: possibly uses wrong strides for 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 YUV with unusual display width or height * 599515 : Fix dvb for DVB API 3.3 * 621465 : [x264enc] Video codec information copied incorrectly to output * 632549 : [mpeg2dec] answers to position queries are wrong for DVDs * 632861 : [x264enc] really bad quality with tune=zerolatency * 634840 : x264: use pkg-config to locate dependencies for plugin * 635291 : x264enc: " vbv-buf-capacity " property should have minimum value of 0 * 635461 : Crash in mad decoder when changing number of audio output channels in Totem while media is running * 636107 : x264enc: docs should indicate specifics of using with queues * 637093 : rmdemux: set GST_BUFFER_FLAG_DELTA_UNIT properly * 637932 : realmedia: do not use the pad buffer allocation functions in demuxers * 639226 : [asfdemux] Doesn't handle new PlayReady DRM files Download You can find source releases of gst-plugins-ugly in the download directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/ GStreamer Homepage More details can be found on the project's website: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ Support and Bugs We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer Developers GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned 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 Contributors to this release * Benjamin Gaignard * David Schleef * Edward Hervey * Guillaume Emont * Jan Schmidt * Leo Singer * Mark Nauwelaerts * Rob Clark * Robert Swain * Sebastian Dröge * Stefan Kost * Thiago Santos * Thomas Green * Tim-Philipp Müller * Tristan Matthews * Vincent Penquerc'h * Wim Taymans