GStreamer Plugins 0.8.4 'Alias'

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release in the 0.8.x
stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.

The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users. It is not API or
ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series. It is, however, parallel
installable with the 0.6.x series.

This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding,
conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media
handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module
to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long as
all of them are in the 0.8.x series.

The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If
you want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install
this module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based
colorspace element has been added to the Plugins however.


Features of this release
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
      * Internationalization
      * New translation in this release: Albanian
      * Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nl sq sr sv uk
      * licensing corrections
      * fixes for compiling with G_DISABLE_ASSERT
      * pixel aspect ratio conversion fixes
      * tcpserversink fixes and additions
      * multifdsink can use poll now as well
      * interleave fixes
      * audioscale fixes
      * videotestsrc fixes
      * v4lsrc fixes
      * theoradec, theoraenc fixes
      * lame fixes
      * flac fixes
      * ximagesink, xvimagesink fixes
      * sunaudio fixes

Bugs fixed in this release
      * 135407 : [xviddec] shows green frames when decoding packed
        bitstream
      * 140432 : Osssink and alsasink broken on nforce2 (intel8x0)
        soundcard
      * 140897 : Incorrect segment duration in files created with
        matroska
      * 140898 : No writing application specified in matroska files
        create...
      * 141554 : vorbis in matroska files makes the vorbisdec plugin
        segfault
      * 144091 : [Solaris] audio mixer element
      * 144616 : Infinite loop in wavparse.
      * 148711 : typefind function for TTA audio files
      * 148950 : matroskademux doesn't set buffer duration
      * 148951 : matroskademux misses the tta codec in its codec list
      * 151232 : [lame] doesn't build with lame-3.90
      * 151236 : [v4l] compile failure
      * 151410 : Memory leaks in multifdsink
      * 151462 : theora plugin Makefile broken

Download
You can find source releases of gst-plugins in the gst-plugins download
directory:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins/

More details can be found on the project's website,
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org. 

Contributors to this release
      * Arwed v. Merkatz
      * Balamurali Viswanathan
      * Benjamin Otte
      * David Schleef
      * Gernot Ziegler
      * Iain Holmes
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Laurent Dhima
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Sebastien Cote
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Wim Taymans
      * Zaheer Abbas Merali