Release notes for GStreamer Ugly Plugins 1.8.0 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the new stable 1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly after the source release by the GStreamer project during the stable 1.8 release series. "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 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. 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. 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. Other modules containing plugins are: 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) ==== Download ==== You can find source releases of gst-plugins-ugly in the download directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/ The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-ugly/ ==== Homepage ==== 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 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details). There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network. ==== Developers ==== GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned 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 * Edward Hervey * Sebastian Dröge