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This is GStreamer Python Bindings 0.10.19, "Insert Casablanca quote here"

Changes since 0.10.18:

      * Updates to 0.10.29/0.10.30 core/base API addition

Changes since 0.10.17:

      * Updates to 0.10.26 core/base API addition

Bugs fixed since 0.10.17:

      * 592459 : info.print_info() uses info.tags.pop() to get values, but pop is destructive, so calling print_info twice can return different results
      * 599818 : Import of pygst fails with Element missing

Changes since 0.10.16:
    
      * Fix leak in gst_base_sink_get_last_buffer()
      * Fix linking of pygstminiobject
      * Add test_audio.py example
      * Fix deadlocks calling gst_pad_link()

Bugs fixed since 0.10.16:
     
      * 590348 : [audio (and other modules)] can't use pygstminiobject !
      * 590803 : checks fail in non-English locale
      * 592447 : memory leak on certain pipelines with appsink

Changes since 0.10.15:
    
      * Update bindings for GStreamer 0.10.24
      * Fixes for the python plugin loader

Bugs fixed since 0.10.15:
     
      * 580992 : gst_preset_get_preset_names not wrapped in gst-python
      * 583378 : libgstpython.so causes a segfault
      * 583607 : Error when building from tarball
      * 584445 : gst.TagList getters and setters should convert unicode ob...

Changes since 0.10.14:
    
      * Support new API in core/base
      * Fixes for python 2.6
      * Other bug-fixes and improvements

Bugs fixed since 0.10.14:
     
      * 304361 : Python plugin loader
      * 576145 : pygst programs skip python plugins on registry update
      * 514717 : memleak in Pad.set_blocked_async()
      * 571156 : gst_tag_get_type not wrapped
      * 571380 : Allow user to specify filename and line number for gst_de...
      * 572487 : Fix licensing screwups
      * 574251 : leaks the flow name
      * 574258 : _wrap_gst_install_plugins_sync might leak details
      * 574272 : Python plugin loader causes SIGSEGV if " import gst " fails
      * 576505 : not all gst_adapter_* methods are wrapped
      * 577735 : python bins with do_handle_message leak messages
      * 578435 : gst-python pkgconfig file lies about needing pygtk
      * 578731 : Python plugin loader deadlocks registry scanning
      * 578848 : Wrap new core/base API
      * 579183 : freshly created QUERY_SEEKING is immutable
      * 579325 : gstlibtoolimporter is not disted
      * 579383 : gst-python doesn't compile with glib < = 2.16.0
      * 581546 : Elements do_query function is broken
      * 581729 : Fails to build with previous core/base releases (0.10.22)
      * 581737 : Python examples need to take the GDK lock
      * 579416 : Nasty gst-python deadlock
      * 579455 : gst.TIME_ARGS doesn't validate input
      * 576546 : Problems with Python 2.6

Changes since 0.10.13:

      * Handle keep-refcount for GBoxed arguments
      * Mark gst.message* that take ownership of the gst.Structure/gst.TagList
      * Wrap new API in Core and Base
      * Various other bug fixes and improvements 
      
Bugs fixed since 0.10.13:

      * 543961 : Memory leak in gst.Bin.do_handle_message
      * 553131 : Import modules in correct order
      * 553134 : Assumes wrong RTLD constants for Linux/MIPS
      * 554545 : gst.Pad methods that return a new buffer as function argu...
      * 556054 : codegen: Add 'keep-refcount' handling for GBoxed arguments
      * 559406 : Add proxy for gst_base_transform_transform_size
      * 559768 : Fix gst-python on systems that don't support RTLD_GLOBAL ...
      * 564580 : Memory leak  in gst.Structure.keys()
      * 566903 : gst.Pad.iterate_internal_links may raise critical warning...

Changes since 0.10.12:

      * Updated for GStreamer 0.10.21 API
      * New examples
      * Fix double import issues on OS/X
      * Bug fixes

Bugs fixed since 0.10.12:

      * 553131 : Import modules in correct order
      * 553134 : Assumes wrong RTLD constants for Linux/MIPS
      * 461838 : Fails to build on Mac OS X i686 with multiply defined sym...
      * 517993 : pipeline-tester should not be hardcoded to ALSA
      * 540221 : Empty GstMiniObject GValues raise a SystemError
      * 546689 : Add GST_DEBUG_BIN_TO_DOT_FILE* to python bindings
      * 549450 : caps.append_structure() gives warnings if structure is no...

Changes since 0.10.11:

      * Build fixes
      * make gst.Fraction do simplification like GstFraction does in C
      * Wrap gst_type_find_register
      * Various bug-fixes

Bugs fixed since 0.10.11:
         
      * 529728 : wrap gst_type_find_register
      * 529731 : release the GIL around gst_element_factory_make
      * 531697 : wrong indentation 
      * 532809 : gst-python version of gst.Fraction doesn't simplify
      * 534888 : gst-python refcount error with gst_event_new_tag

Changes since 0.10.10:
        
      * Wrap gst.Pad.start_task 
      * New videomixer example
      * Various other fixes

Bugs fixed since 0.10.10:
        
      * 512916 : python_do_pending_calls timer is apparently redundant
      * 514717 : memleak in Pad.set_blocked_async()

Changes since 0.10.9:

      * Wrap new API for 0.10.16 GStreamer and Base releases.
      * New gst.pbutils module wraps the gst-plugins-base pbutils library.
      * Rework gst_pad_add_*probe function wrapping to avoid leaks.
      * Various build fixes.

Bugs fixed since 0.10.9:

      * 509522 : New gst-python bindings don't compile with python2.4
      * 472822 : Wrap -base utils helper library
      * 504786 : pad probes leak  refs to their data
      * 509766 : generated win32/common/config.h miss some defines
      * 510437 : Build failure due to missing Python.h

Changes since 0.10.8
      * Major crasher fixed when using latest pygobject
      * Build system for Visual Studio 6
      * Added wrapping for 0.10.15 gstreamer core/base

Bugs fixed since 0.10.8:

      * 490195 : [gst.URIHandler] interfaces with class-global virtual met...
      * 425847 : Silently overrides some functions of default module optparse

Changes since 0.10.7:

Bugs fixed since 0.10.7:

      * 398567 : undefined symbol: libxml_xmlDocPtrWrap
      * 343980 : [solaris] import gst crash python
      * 363795 : Impossible to reset a pad to " unnegotiated " from Python
      * 380966 : Discoverer doesn't cope well with demuxers that don't cre...
      * 381243 : No checks are made when converting from gst.Fraction to G...
      * 385841 : Handle gchar** (GStrv) arguments
      * 410838 : gst-python doesn't handle gst.Buffers in GValues (e.g. in...
      * 418222 : New parameter to the discoverer to change the default max...
      * 432521 : [gst-discover] show audio and video length in ms
      * 433375 : [win32] autogenerated win32/common/config.h needed
      * 436620 : get_uri_type methods should return enum objects
      * 446674 : API break
      * 450117 : [PATCH] gst.event_new_custom needs to copy structure as C...
      * 451645 : gst.Buffer.stamp() is broked
      * 454259 : Requestable Pad Segfaults When No Name Is Supplied
      * 376996 : [PATCH] Fully implement GstPropertyProbe interface
      * 415003 : build warnings against python 2.5 on x86_64
      * 428299 : Allow python elements to implement pad queries

Changes since 0.10.6:
      * Threadsafe fix

Bugs fixed since 0.10.6:

      * 383805 : segfault with videobalance
      * 401051 : Fails to build with gst-plugins-base < 0.10.11

Changes since 0.10.5:

      * Can now build without requiring pygtk and its dependencies
      * installation fixes

Bugs fixed since 0.10.5:

      * 355150 : Expose GST_PARAM_CONTROLLABLE in the bindings
      * 343980 : import gst crash python
      * 346190 : allow build/install without pygtk (ie pygobject)
      * 349623 : Build failure due to "discards qualifiers from pointer ta...
      * 359375 : variable 'interface' results in syntax error with MingW
      * 362011 : [patch] Indentation typo in examples/bps.py
      * 362183 : Please remove examples/gst123
      * 362202 : [patch] A replacement of examples/vorbisplay.py for 0.10
      * 362272 : [patch] Ports examples/audioconcat.py to 0.10
      * 362290 : [patch] Ports examples/cp.py to 0.10
      * 371969 : [Discoverer] Issues with demuxers that don't create pads ...
      * 348416 : remuxer example should use normal seek
      * 349107 : gst.BaseSrc can't negotiate with ffmpegcolorspace

Changes since 0.10.4:

      * now requires glib >= 2.8
      * switch to up-to-date pygtk codegenerator

Bugs fixed since 0.10.4:

      * 319871 : drop GIL state lock when doing something that can cause a...
      * 338982 : python refcounting problems in gstpad.override
      * 313138 : Need to update constructors to use properties
      * 329075 : __gsignals__ doesn' t work in classes derived from gst.Pi...
      * 334548 : Proper use of PyTuple and PyList for return values
      * 339040 : [patch] Error domains from gsterror are not wrapped
      * 339248 : Wrapper for virtual method GstBaseTransform.get_unit_size
      * 339308 : MiniObject arguments for virtual methods shouldn't have t...
      * 339767 : An example of subclassing GstBaseTransform
      * 339938 : filesrc.py example still uses 0.8 API
      * 341114 : pygst.require uses asserts rather than real error checking
      * 341799 : patch to make gst-python work on OSes without dl.so
      * 342493 : audio-controller.py needs slight updates for 0.10
      * 343652 : gstfile.py sometimes results in &quot; *** glibc detected *** c...

Changes since 0.10.3:

      * Conditional compile of core API additions
      * wrapped gst.BaseSrc and gst.PushSrc

Bugs fixed since 0.10.3:
    
      * 339010 : segfault/undefined behavior with optional GstCaps args
      * 337876 : TagList does not retreive tags by key if 2 or more tags w...

API added since 0.10.3:
     
      * gst.get_gst_version()
      * gst.get_pygst_version()

Changes since 0.10.2:

      * Backwards compatibility with older GStreamer installations
      * Wrapping of new API in GStreamer
      * Bug-fixes and enhancements

Bugs fixed since 0.10.2:

      * 329110 : gst-python sets RTLD_GLOBAL when importing, but doesn't s...
      * 332586 : pygst.require should raise an error based on StandardErro...
      * 333055 : PYGIL_API_IS_BUGGY is already defined in pygobect.h
      * 331616 : gst.version and gst.gst_version differ
  
Changes since 0.10.1:
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * allow fractions in structures
      * added vmethods for base classes

Bugs fixed since 0.10.1:
    
      * 325459 : Fractions cannot be used as values for gst.Structure fileds

Changes since 0.10.0:

      * added discoverer
      * updated for core API additions

API changed since 0.10.0:
     
      * gst.extend.discoverer
      * wrapped gst_version()
      * wrapped gst_type_find_factory_get_list()
      * wrapped gst_mixer_options_get_values()
      * wrapped gst_dp_*()
      * wrapped gst_element_factory_get_static_pad_templates()

Changes since 0.9.6:
    
      * Updates for API changes

Bugs fixed since 0.9.6:
    
      * 322250 : Remove *_full wrappers

Changes since 0.9.5:
    
      * added FractionRange
      * updated for API changes

Bugs fixed since 0.9.5:
    
      * 318793 : check whether new date/tag API needs wrapping
      * 321839 : pipeline hangs in get_state after changing trival pipeline

Changes since 0.9.4:
    
      * Remove mini-object caching, fixes crashes
      * added gst.TagList
      * added gst.TIME_ARGS

Bugs fixed since 0.9.4:
    
      * 306817 : No way to set tags in gst-python
      * 320357 : element_query_duration not wrapped

Bugs fixed since 0.9.3:

      * 315433 : gst.element_factory_make and some other functions should ...
      * 318684 : [PATCH] reference leaks when using PyList_Append to popul...
      * 318692 : gst-python fails to build with python 2.3