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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE xml [ <!ENTITY % site-entities SYSTEM "../../entities.site"> %site-entities; ]>
<?xml-stylesheet href="../releases.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<release>
  <module>gst-plugins-base</module>
  <module-fancy>GStreamer Base Plugins</module-fancy>
  <name></name>
  <version>1.7.91</version>

  <intro>
<p>
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the stable
1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
</p>
<p>
Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
during the stable 1.8 release series.
</p>
<p>
This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.

This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments.  Element
writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
their development.

This module contains elements for, among others:
<ul>
  <li>device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia</li>
  <li>containers: ogg</li>
  <li>codecs: vorbis, theora</li>
  <li>text: textoverlay, subparse</li>
  <li>sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc</li>
  <li>network: tcp</li>
  <li>typefind functions</li>
  <li>audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume</li>
  <li>visualisation: libvisual</li>
  <li>video processing: videoconvert, videoscale</li>
  <li>high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer</li>
  <li>libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video</li>
</ul>

Other modules containing plugins are:

<dl>
<dt>gst-plugins-good</dt>
<dd>contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license</dd>
<dt>gst-plugins-ugly</dt>
<dd>contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
    distributors</dd>
<dt>gst-plugins-bad</dt>
<dd>contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
    rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
    and/or unit tests</dd>
<dt>gst-libav</dt>
<dd>contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)</dd>
</dl>

</p>
  </intro>
    <contributors>
	<person>Havard Graff</person>
	<person>Lubosz Sarnecki</person>
	<person>Nirbheek Chauhan</person>
	<person>Sebastian Dröge</person>
	<person>Tim-Philipp Müller</person>
	<person>Vincent Penquerc'h</person>
	<person>Wim Taymans</person>
  </contributors>

  <bugs>
    <bug>
      <id>761251</id>
      <summary>textoverlay: Expose text rendering dimensions to applications and remove absolute positioning limit</summary>
    </bug>
    <bug>
      <id>763059</id>
      <summary>opusdec: plug caps leak</summary>
    </bug>
    <bug>
      <id>763094</id>
      <summary>gst-play: remove peculiar setting of invalid -v property</summary>
    </bug>
    <bug>
      <id>763278</id>
      <summary>tcpserversink: problems with TS muxed stream, not detecting/sending keyframes</summary>
    </bug>
    <bug>
      <id>763625</id>
      <summary>decodebin: Crashes when shutting down during autoplugging</summary>
    </bug>
    <bug>
      <id>758282</id>
      <summary>OGG streams buffer constantly even with plenty of bandwidth</summary>
    </bug>
  </bugs>

</release>