[dot] GStreamer 0.10 Released

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From: Christian Schaller and Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: g-as-in-gnu
Date: Friday09/Dec/2005, @13:59

GStreamer 0.10 Released
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   The GStreamer [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/] developers have
just released version 0.10 of the GStreamer multimedia framework
[http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/gstreamer010.html] into
the wild, and their coders' fingers will never be the same.
Thread-safety, RTP/VoIP support, automatic registry maintenance, twice
the performance, and a whole lot more...the best just got better. A
highly flexible, cross-platform, and GUI-independent multimedia
framework, GStreamer takes your media, chews it up, and spits it out
into aural and visual paradise. Especially targeted at GNU/Linux and
Unix operating systems, the GStreamer team has been working with members
of the KDE community for a long time. With this release we have a
stable, extendable and robust multimedia solution.  Together with KDE MM
[http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Multimedia+API+Talk] GStreamer
is set to be the multimedia framework for KDE 4.

     Please read our release announcement to get an overview of what is
new and improved in the 0.10 series. The input and feedback of the KDE
community would be much appreciated as we continue our breakneck pace
towards our holy grail of GStreamer 1.0.

     GStreamer is a generic multimedia framework based around the
concept of media pipelines linking elements, providing support for all
manner of things. In GStreamer you'll find plug-ins supporting
multimedia file formats, firewire and USB cameras, sound cards,
windowing systems, transcoding, networking, audio and video
transformations and much more.

     Mark Kretschmann, project lead of the Amarok
[http://amarok.kde.org] music player said "I am looking forward to
porting Amarok over to GStreamer 0.10. Many of the problems our users
experienced with the 0.8 version seem to be addressed in GStreamer 0.10,
especially the responsiveness issues we faced. So to make it short,
GStreamer 0.10 is gonna be a blast, I'm totally into it!"

     Aaron J. Seigo commented on behalf of KDE e.V. [http://ev.kde.org],
"multimedia is a central theme for desktop computing, so making
meaningful strides towards open source media solutions that provide what
application developers as well as users need is critical. Recognising
how non-trivial software that addresses this problem space in a portable
and open manner is, and given that several KDE applications provide
GStreamer support already today, we are happy to see the milestones that
are being met by the GStreamer project. The future of multimedia in Open
Source just keeps looking better and better. Congratulations on a
successful release!"