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-WHAT IT IS
-----------
-This is GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
 
-This package is in the 0.9.x series.  This means that this is a
-development series leading up to a stable 0.10.x series.
-You have been warned.
+GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.9.3 "De Facto"
+        
 
-GStreamer 0.9 development series - Hung by a Thread
----------------------------------------------------
+The GStreamer team is petrified to announce a new release
+in the 0.9.x development series of the
+GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
 
-Starring
 
-  GSTREAMER
+The 0.9.x series is a development series and not recommended for end users.
+It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
+It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
 
-The core around which all other modules revolve.  Base functionality and
-libraries, some essential elements, documentation, and testing.
 
-  BASE
+This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
+plugins, and helper libraries.
 
-A well-groomed and well-maintained collection of GStreamer plug-ins and
-elements, spanning the range of possible types of elements one would want
-to write for GStreamer.  
+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.
 
-And introducing, for the first time ever, on the development screen ...
+This module contains elements for, among others:
 
-  THE GOOD
+  device plugins: x(v)imagesink, alsa, v4lsrc, cdparanoia
+  containers: ogg
+  codecs: vorbis, theora
+  text: textoverlay, subparse
+  sources: sinesrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc
+  network: tcp
+  typefind
+  audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioscale, volume
+  visualisation: libvisual
+  video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
+  aggregate elements: decodebin, playbin
 
- --- "Such ingratitude.  After all the times I've saved your life."
 
-A collection of plug-ins you'd want to have right next to you on the
-battlefield.  Shooting sharp and making no mistakes, these plug-ins have it
-all: good looks, good code, and good licensing.  Documented and dressed up
-in tests.  If you're looking for a role model to base your own plug-in on,
-here it is.
+Other modules containing plug-ins are:
 
-If you find a plot hole or a badly lip-synced line of code in them,
-let us know - it is a matter of honour for us to ensure Blondie doesn't look
-like he's been walking 100 miles through the desert without water.
 
-  THE UGLY
+gst-plugins-good
+contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
+gst-plugins-ugly
+contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
+    distributors
+gst-plugins-bad
+contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
+    rigorous quality testing we expect
 
-  --- "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.
-
-  THE BAD
-
-  --- "That an accusation?"
-
-No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
-cover up the truth - these plug-ins are Bad with a capital B. 
-They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
-at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
-to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
-showdown.
-
-Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
-patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
-steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
-kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
-You dig.
-
-The Lowdown
------------
-
-  --- "I've never seen so many plug-ins wasted so badly."
-
-GStreamer Plug-ins has grown so big that it's hard to separate the wheat from
-the chaff.  Also, distributors have brought up issues about the legal status
-of some of the plug-ins we ship.  To remedy this, we've divided the previous
-set of available plug-ins into four modules:
-
-- gst-plugins-base: a small and fixed set of plug-ins, covering a wide range
-  of possible types of elements; these are continuously kept up-to-date
-  with any core changes during the development series.
-
-  - We believe distributors can safely ship these plug-ins.
-  - People writing elements should base their code on these elements.
-  - These elements come with examples, documentation, and regression tests.
-
-- gst-plugins-good: a set of plug-ins that we consider to have good quality
-  code, correct functionality, our preferred license (LGPL for the plug-in
-  code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library).
-
-  - We believe distributors can safely ship these plug-ins.
-  - People writing elements should base their code on these elements.
- 
-- gst-plugins-ugly: 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.
-  - People writing elements should base their code on these elements.
-
-- gst-plugins-bad: a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the
-  rest.  They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing
-  something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests,
-  a real live maintainer, or some actual wide use.
-  If the blanks are filled in they might be upgraded to become part of
-  either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly, depending on the other factors.
-
-  - If the plug-ins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
-    problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
-  - New contributors can start here for things to work on.
-
-INSTALLING FROM PACKAGES
-------------------------
-You should always prefer installing from packages first.  GStreamer is
-well-maintained for a number of distributions, including Fedora, Debian,
-Ubuntu, Mandrake, Gentoo, ...
-
-Only in cases where you:
-- want to hack on GStreamer
-- want to verify that a bug has been fixed
-- do not have a sane distribution
-should you choose to build from source tarballs or CVS.
-
-Find more information about the various packages at
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/
-
-COMPILING FROM SOURCE TARBALLS
-------------------------------
-- again, make sure that you really need to install from source !
-  If GStreamer is one of your first projects ever that you build from source,
-  consider taking on an easier project.
-
-- check output of ./configure --help to see if any options apply to you
-- run
-  ./configure
-  make
-
-  to build GStreamer.
-- if you want to install it (not required), run
-  make install
-- You should create a registry for things to work.
-  If you ran make install in the previous step, run
-  gst-register
-  as root.
-
-  If you didn't install, run
-  tools/gst-register
-  as a normal user.
-
-- try out a simple test:
-  gst-launch fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink
-  (If you didn't install GStreamer, again prefix gst-launch with tools/)
-
-  If it outputs a bunch of messages from fakesrc and fakesink, everything is
-  ok.
-
-- After this, you're ready to install gst-plugins, which will provide the
-  functionality you're probably looking for by now, so go on and read
-  that README.
-
-COMPILING FROM CVS
-------------------
-When building from CVS sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate 
-the build system files.
-
-You will need a set of additional tools typical for building from CVS,
-including:
-- autoconf
-- automake
-- libtool
-
-autogen.sh will check for recent enough versions and complain if you don't have
-them.  You can also specify specific versions of automake and autoconf with
---with-automake and --with-autoconf
-
-Check autogen.sh options by running autogen.sh --help
-
-autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure - you just need to separate them
-from autogen.sh with -- between the two.
-prefix has been added to autogen.sh but will be passed on to configure because
-some build scripts like that.
-
-When you have done this once, you can use autoregen.sh to re-autogen with
-the last passed options as a handy shortcut.  Use it.
-
-After the autogen.sh stage, you can follow the directions listed in
-"COMPILING FROM SOURCE"
-
-You can also run your whole cvs stack uninstalled.  The script in
-the gstreamer module /docs/faq/gst-uninstalled) is helpful in setting
-up your environment for this.
-
-PLUG-IN DEPENDENCIES AND LICENSES
----------------------------------
-GStreamer is developed under the terms of the LGPL (see LICENSE file for
-details). Some of our plug-ins however rely on libraries which are available
-under other licenses. This means that if you are using an application which
-has a non-GPL compatible license (for instance a closed-source application)
-with GStreamer, you have to make sure not to use GPL-linked plug-ins.
-When using GPL-linked plug-ins, GStreamer is for all practical reasons
-under the GPL itself.
-
-HISTORY
--------
-The fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate
-Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia.  It's based on plug-ins that
-will provide the various codec and other functionality.  The interface
-hopefully is generic enough for various companies (ahem, Apple) to release
-binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and release the
-source.
+
+  
+Features of this release
+    
+      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
+      * Threadsafe design and API
+      * RTP base classes
+
+Bugs fixed in this release
+    
+      * 313251 : ximagesink unused functions
+      * 315159 : audioconvert lost 24 bit conversions in the rewrite
+
+Download
+
+You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
+http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
+
+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
+
+CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
+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.
+
+        
+Applications
+  
+Contributors to this release
+    
+      * Andy Wingo
+      * David Schleef
+      * Jan Schmidt
+      * Johan Dahlin
+      * Michael Smith
+      * Stefan Kost
+      * Thomas Vander Stichele
+      * Tim-Philipp Müller
+      * Torsten Schoenfeld
+      * Wim Taymans
+      * Zaheer Abbas Merali
+ 
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