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@@ -1,71 +1,65 @@ +This is GStreamer gst-plugins-ugly 1.12.5. -Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plugins 1.12.4 - -The GStreamer team is proud to announce the fourth bugfix release in the stable +The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the fifth bugfix release in the stable 1.12 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! - This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.12.x. For a -full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla. - +full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla and the release notes. -See /releases/1.12/ for the full release notes. +The 1.12 stable series is now superseded by the 1.14 stable series, and 1.12.5 +will likely be the last bugfix release in the 1.12 series. +Full release notes can be found at: -"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.12/#1.12.5 +Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly +after the release. -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 plugins 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. +This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction +with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience. + - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins -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 plugins 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. + - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional + media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio, + video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc. + - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred + license -This module contains a set of plugins that have good quality and correct -functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license -on either the plugins 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 plugins. + - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose + problems for distributors + - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made + their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one + reason or another. Many of these are are production quality + elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit + tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing + we expect yet. -Other modules containing plugins are: + - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is + where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders + for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc. + - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using + VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware. -gst-plugins-base -contains a basic set of well-supported plugins -gst-plugins-good -contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license -gst-plugins-bad -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 -gst-libav -contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg) + - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for + embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax + implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi. + - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP - - - -Bugs fixed in this release - - * 791301 : cdio: Fails to build with cdio 1.0 + - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing ==== Download ==== -You can find source releases of gst-plugins-ugly in the download -directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/ +You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download +directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at -http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-ugly/ +https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/ ==== Homepage ==== @@ -74,7 +68,7 @@ The project's website is https://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 +https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. @@ -90,12 +84,3 @@ from there (see link above). Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. - - -Contributors to this release - - * Deepak Srivastava - * Ponnam Srinivas - * Satya Prakash Gupta - * Sebastian Dröge -
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