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This is GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.11, "Dumb things"

Bugs fixed since 0.10.10:
     
      * 360552 : [riff] [avi] extracts non-UTF8 metadata
      * 365501 : [x/xvimagesink] race condition when creating first image ...
      * 339366 : [playbin] hangs if suburi file type cannot be determined
      * 355914 : libvisual causes xvimagesink:  assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOU...
      * 363118 : gst_riff_create_video_caps() should also store variant in...
      * 363607 : xvimagesink xwindow_draw_border() slowness
      * 336301 : [playbin] can't handle RTSP source
      * 337026 : oggmux doesn't set EOS properly
      * 337031 : vorbisdec outputs too much data 
      * 340049 : New BaseRTPAudioPayloader class to -base 
      * 348264 : Theora encoding, Ogg muxing don't handle discontinuities
      * 354773 : xvimage assumes that XV_COLORKEY can be set in RGB888 format
      * 355917 : libvisual plugin is broken
      * 355935 : multifdsink doesn't allow setting maximums (soft, hard) i...
      * 357038 : [ffmpegcolorspace] RGBA handling broken
      * 357215 : [playbin] buffering notification not quite right yet
      * 357289 : [riff] riff parser can't detect aac audio stream
      * 357404 : [playbin] Linking can fail silently 
      * 357531 : [subparse] problem if markup is not closed
      * 357577 : [playbin] regression: buffering still images broken
      * 357591 : Avoid compiler warning with uclibc and -Werror
      * 357613 : XvStopVideo in xvimagesink
      * 357800 : [libvisual] doesn't pass audio data to libvisual 0.4.0 co...
      * 359580 : tcpserversink and dataprotocol assert for multipart streams
      * 361095 : Fixes compiling with forte: warning clean up (part 3)
      * 361456 : [basertppayload] Memory leak
      * 361634 : sink- > ringbuffer NULL in BaseAudioSink's setcaps()
      * 361984 : [subparse] doesn't accept .srt file that doesn't start wi...
      * 366334 : [PATCH] Windows vs8 fixes
      * 368273 : Using the remove signal on multifdsink is not threadsafe
      * 368310 : include file  gstbasertpaudiopayload.h not included for r...
      * 369482 : [typefind] MPEG system streams get recognized as mp3 files
      * 370092 : [PATCH] Decodebin v2 : Implementation
      * 377183 : regression: no eos when playing ogg vorbis files
      * 381219 : bad debugging code left in audiorate
      * 382223 : [decodebin] more delayed linking
      * 382269 : Typefind detects mpeg video clip as audio/mpeg
      * 335635 : Add an Ogg/Vorbis retagging element
      * 341681 : [textoverlay] flickering with continuously timestamped text
      * 342228 : [alsa] Recognize " Front " as a Master channel 
      * 357330 : [subparse] some sami parser minor but enhanced patch 
      * 357532 : [gsttag] vorbistag doesn't handle dates that include time...
      * 359237 : [typefinding] doesn't recognize XML files shorter than 25...
      * 362845 : [subparse] add support for tmplayer format
      * 357977 : [videorate] new segment start is not respected
      * 364812 : [PATCH] oggmux release pad does not remove pad
      * 364856 : pngenc stride problems
      * 372507 : Mac build fixes

API added since 0.10.10:

      * playbin::queue-min-threshold property.
      * GstVideoOrientation interface
      * gst_base_rtp_depayload_push_ts
      * gst_base_rtp_depayload_push
      * Add dropped_buffers to multifdsink's get-stats GValueArray
      * gst_ring_buffer_commit_full

Changes since 0.10.9:

      * New elements: gdppay, gdpdepay

Bugs fixed since 0.10.9:
     
      * 343787 : The adder cannot handle when multiple elements tries to l...
      * 336075 : ALSA emu10k1 mixer tracks are wrongly classified as playb...
      * 349105 : crash with playbin and resizing screen
      * 342494 : [v4l] Query " device-name " even if device is not open
      * 342680 : [adder] seeking with multiple ogg files fails to work
      * 345188 : [alsa] can't handle more than 8 channels
      * 347091 : converting vorbis comments to GstTagLists is lossy
      * 348157 : Changed " Change Device " menu behaviour in gnome-volume-co...
      * 348916 : [typefind] add multipart/x-mixed-replace typefinder
      * 350157 : [riff] riff parser can't detect dts audio stream
      * 350655 : [oggdemux] should process seeking queries
      * 350900 : [adder] should not clamp floating point values
      * 351426 : API: add gst_tag_parse_extended_comment
      * 351502 : g_value_set_string leaks
      * 351742 : [vorbisenc] discontinuity detection too sensitive, might ...
      * 353658 : [videotestsrc] doesn't round strides correctly for YVYU
      * 354594 : multifdsink doesn't work reliably with sync-method = 'nex...
      * 351790 : [ogmparse] crash parsing video stream on x86-64
      * 140139 : [avidemux] can't play broken avi with ogg (not vorbis) au...
      * 347783 : [PLUGIN-MOVE] GDP elements should be moved
      * 347918 : Internal data flow error in udpsrc
      * 349656 : jitterbuffer in GstBaseRtp fails to handle rtp seqnum rol...
      * 350784 : element alsamixer doesn't respect asoundrc
      * 351308 : [netbuffer] build fails with gkt-doc critical warnings
      * 353234 : audiorate preserves DISCONT on buffers
      * 353912 : Add cmml caps to oggmux

API added since 0.10.9:
     
      * gst_rtp_buffer_get_payload_subbuffer()
      * gst_tag_parse_extended_comment()
      * GstPlayBin::connection-speed
      * GstTheoraParse::synchronization-points
      * GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_NONE

Changes since 0.10.8:

      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * Subtitle fixes
      * Support for images in tags
      * Playback improvements
      * Gnomevfssrc now supports burn:// uris
      * Videoscale now supports more RGBA formats
      * Multifdsink improvements
      * Testsuite can now generate coverage information

Bugs fixed since 0.10.8:

      * 347296 : Problems with clocks on alsasrc hangs the application
      * 347295 : [vorbisdec] Pushes before being initialized
      * 329798 : [playbin] doesn't always give correct error message for m...
      * 342085 : [alsasink] doesn't set buffer-time correctly
      * 342789 : [audioresample] doesn't clear state when stopped, causing...
      * 343303 : [subparse] workaround for bad entities in sami parser
      * 343385 : [gnomevfs] add support for burn:// URIs
      * 343500 : [riff] gst_riff_parse_strf_vids() can't parse extra data.
      * 343699 : oggmux leaks
      * 344503 : [subparse] parse font face property in sami parser.
      * 345131 : [PATCH] videoscale support for 32-bit RGB-formats
      * 345206 : [textoverlay] crash with non-UTF8 input
      * 345225 : [theoradec] Clipping for exact seeking
      * 345641 : [API] [libgsttag] add enums for image tag type
      * 345879 : [riff] won't play a .wmv file with WMVA video stream
      * 346581 : [typefinding] recognise text/html
      * 347221 : [audioconvert] channel remapping does not work right
      * 347304 : Massive leaks with xvimagesink
      * 346527 : alsasrc get_range does not respect requested size

Changes since 0.10.7:
    
      * alsasink probing fixes
      * xvimagesink error reporting fixes
      * subtitle fixes
      * adder fixes
      * vorbis multichannel fixes
      * multifdsink streamheader fixes

Bugs fixed since 0.10.7:
    
      * 169936 : [subparse] support for SAMI subtitles
      * 315312 : Gstreamer Xv uses RGB instead of YUV.
      * 334002 : video4linux shouldn't depend on X in configure script
      * 336881 : [libvisual] additional support for libvisual-0.4
      * 337544 : [xvimagesink] Internal Error when image is too large
      * 339520 : [subparse] add " encoding " property
      * 340909 : [alsasink] can't enable spdif output
      * 341542 : some users have an assertion failed: (GST_VIDEO_SINK_WIDT...
      * 341562 : audioconvert doesn't list formats in order of preference
      * 341696 : audioconvert crashes if converting from a format with no ...
      * 341719 : bisection algorithm in ogg doesn't bisect in some cases
      * 341732 : [alsasink] doesn't query supported sample rates
      * 341873 : [alsasink] minor memory leak, uses unprotected static var...
      * 342143 : [subparse] sami parser needs to escape characters
      * 342181 : [alsa] add property probe interface to alsasink and alsasrc
      * 342268 : [playbin] add 'subtitle-encoding' property
      * 342345 : [riff] Elephant's Dream AVI does not play, JUNK chunk bef...
      * 342566 : Building without GTK+ fails
      * 343397 : H.264/AAC movie deadlocks with totem in gstreamer code, p...
      * 339935 : [adder] dead-locks when adding sink pads in PAUSED state

Changes since 0.10.6:

      * typefind improvements
      * bug-fixes in textoverlay, audioconvert, videotestsrc, 
        multifdsink and audio source/sink base classes
      * Ice-cast metadata support has moved from gnomevfssrc to the 
        icydemux element in gst-plugins-good
      * audioresample now supports floating point samples
      * Adder element fixes.
      * Fixes for network playback and audio resampling in playbin

Bugs fixed since 0.10.6:
    
      * 340060 : [adder] handle newsegment events properly
      * 340375 : [API 0.11] [patch] typefind to differentiate between mp4 ...
      * 339405 : [textoverlay] can't display '\n' character
      * 338657 : [patch] adder should send events from src-pad to all sink...
      * 338919 : [patch] alsasink should also query witdh capabilities fro...
      * 301759 : [audioresample] float audio support (for OSX audio sinks)
      * 331901 : [videotestsrc] framerate=0/1 gives assertion error
      * 333657 : Replacing icy demuxing in gnomevfssrc
      * 336339 : [audioresample] should support width != 16
      * 338718 : [patch] [audioconvert] correctly clip float samples > 1.0
      * 338778 : [patch] Bad audio with ASX files
      * 338991 : [patch] Videoscale doesn't pass on pixel-aspect ratio
      * 339574 : [patch] Race condition in multifdsink can lead to spuriou...
      * 339786 : [typefinding] wavpack typefinding doesn't always work
      * 340369 : [volume element] " volume " property range insufficient
      * 340379 : [playbin] doesn't insert audioresample, causes problems w...
      * 340392 : Problem with internal-decodebin
      * 341160 : [multifdsink] client_status enum has an uninitialized nick
      * 341182 : Accessing playbin's streaminfo property from high languag...
      * 341432 : [playbin] automatically get icecast metadata requiring ic...
      * 341542 : some users have an assertion failed: (GST_VIDEO_SINK_WIDT...
      * 341557 : Map GST_TAG_IMAGE < = > ID3v2 APIC tag

API added since 0.10.6:
    
      * client-fd-removed signal added to multifdsink
      * stream-info-value-array property added to playbin
      * gst_video_calculate_display_ratio() in libgstvideo

Changes since 0.10.5:

      * QoS in sinks and transform elements
      * Needs GStreamer 0.10.5 for new GstBaseSink::async_playback() vmethod
      * added theoraparse element

Bugs fixed since 0.10.5:
    
      * 313136 : [playbin] hang while playing truncated ogg file
      * 172848 : [subparse] subtitles with special chars are displayed as ...
      * 305279 : [riff] uncompressed AVIs with 24bpp don't work
      * 320765 : [ffmpegcolorspace] make win32+msvc compliant, don't use _...
      * 323852 : Disable tests/icles on platforms that do not have X
      * 325653 : build errors compiling audioresample on win32(vs7)
      * 327357 : gst-plugins-base fails to compile with GCC 4.1
      * 334620 : [gnomevfssrc] fails to connect to icecast streaming servers
      * 334822 : [ffmpegcolorspace] YVU9 support
      * 335028 : [typefinding] ID3 v1 tag is not recognized with mp3-in-wa...
      * 335365 : inefficient use of GList in gst-plugins-base
      * 336190 : [gnomevfssink] should accept non-URI filenames as " location " 
      * 336194 : [gnomevfssrc] some minor memory leaks
      * 336477 : plugins need better/univied descriptions
      * 336617 : Unable to recognise MPEG TS stream
      * 337548 : Memory leaks in basertpdepayload
      * 337945 : [oggdemux] segment stop position ignored
      * 338419 : Regression in the handling of files with multiple audio/s...
      * 338897 : Videoscale crashes as part of DVD to Ogg transcoding
      * 339013 : [videorate] Goes into an infinite loop
      * 339047 : [riff] handle H264 fourcc in addition to h264
      * 339212 : ISO file typefinding regression
      * 330748 : deadlock in base audio sink on playing- > paused state change

Bugs fixed since 0.10.4:
    
      * 334216 : [gnomevfssrc] won't open some media on NFS mounts any longer
      * 334226 : typefindfunctions plugin crashes on PPC on registration

Changes since 0.10.3:
    
      * (Experimental) QoS support
      * oggmuxer now creates 100% valid streams for Theora, Vorbis and Speex
      * documentation updates
      * better support for subtitles (seeking)

Bugs fixed since 0.10.3:
    
      * 310202 : [subtitles] < i >  < /i > tags and others should be supported i...
      * 312439 : XVideo output doesn't work on remote displays (probably r...
      * 321271 : audio output is truncated at EOS
      * 321650 : Can't decode this ogm file
      * 325732 : [oggdemux] problem when seeking to time less than 4s with...
      * 325972 : [typefinding] doesn't recognise this mp3
      * 326720 : [alsasink] doesn't support more than 2 channels anymore
      * 330711 : [ffmpegcolorspace] problems with palettized RGB (fencount...
      * 330789 : gstbaseaudiosink causes noise on seeking
      * 330888 : Fix build with gcc 2.95 (again)
      * 331295 : gnomevfssink doesn't respect umask when creating files
      * 331526 : 3GP type detection is too simple
      * 331678 : Decodebin is not reusable within a single pipeline (as in...
      * 331690 : playbin won't play my last.fm stream
      * 331763 : [alsamixer] unmute sets the volume to 100%
      * 331765 : [alsamixer] mixer applet slider doesn't want to move from...
      * 331903 : [videorate] doesnt handle input caps of framerate=0/1 sanely
      * 332778 : [ogmparse] " Already an existing pad " WARNING
      * 332964 : random crashes in mp3_type_find
      * 333254 : theora encoder does not set IN_CAPS flag properly
      * 333352 : [gnomevfssink] reports disk full as generic error
      * 333488 : Allow for palette < 256 colours in AVI files
      * 333510 : [PATCH] Fix gst_pad_new_from_template (gst_static_pad_tem...
      * 333545 : [riff] set depth on wma caps to make asfdemux and pitfdll...
      * 333663 : [patch] unref the result of gst_pad_get_parent
      * 333900 : [typefind] cannot play a particular mp3 file
      * 334112 : variable not initialized
      * 334129 : Disable frame dropping for now
      * 317038 : use default channel layout if none is specified in multic...
      * 319340 : [cdparanoia] uncorrected-error signal never fired

API added since 0.10.3:
    
      * GstTextOverlay::halignment
      * GstTextOverlay::valignment

Changes since 0.10.2:

      * typefind improvements
      * Ogg decoding and encoding fixes
      * Improved audio and video sink classes
      * Bug and leak fixes
      * Improved video scaling
      * On-the-fly visualisation switching
      * Subtitle support

Bugs fixed since 0.10.2:

      * 330244 : gsttextoverlay.c:895: 'struct _GstCollectData' has no mem...
      * 324000 : [playbin] post error or message on unknown input
      * 153004 : [typefind] can't identify mp3 file with one single mpeg f...
      * 323874 : [playbin] leaks sinks and threads when using gconfaudiosink
      * 324626 : ffmpegcolorspace support for fourcc " UYVY "
      * 326447 : check that all elements in -base pass queries they can't ...
      * 328263 : Fix build with gcc 2.95
      * 328279 : [decodebin] timeout issue when pre-rolling
      * 329326 : Fix oggmux removing pads from collect pads

Changes since 0.10.1:
    
      * ported gnomevfssink, cdparanoia
      * New library and base class: GstCddaBaseSrc
      * ported mixerutils.h
      * added 'sine-tab' waveform to audiotestsrc
      * added float audio to audiorate

Bugs fixed since 0.10.1:
    
      * 324216 : [cdparanoia] missing patches from 0.8
      * 324696 : [videotestsrc] does not start counting the time from zero...
      * 324900 : Problem compiling gst-plugins-base with Forte
      * 325984 : [playbin] cannot handle sources that produce raw audio/video
      * 325990 : patch videotestsrc for using glib types
      * 326601 : GstRingBuffer crashes with alaw/mulaw caps
      * 327114 : [theoradec] should post tags on the bus
      * 327216 : vorbisdec segfaults on certain queries

API added since 0.10.1:
     
      * added libgstcddabase
      * added mixerutils.h
        
Changes since 0.10.0:
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * removed gst-launch-ext
      * Ported: ogmparse
      * Fixes for: subparse, xvimagesink, audioresample, videorate, decodebin

Bugs fixed since 0.10.0:
    
      * 322347 : GstBaseRtpDepayload timestamps are wring
      * 323900 : Basertpdepayloader lets NEWSEGMENT events through unfiltered
      * 323878 : missing < string.h > inclusion (for memset & FD_ZERO)

API added since 0.10.0:
    
      * GstAlsaMixer::device
      * GstAlsaMixer::device-name

Bugs fixed since 0.9.7:
    
      * 319172 : gstreamer-plugins-base-0.9.pc doesn't export linking flags
      * 323017 : While(1) loop with sleep(0) in basertpdepayload.c
  
Changes since 0.9.6:
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * ximagesink and xvimagesink updates and interactive test
      * added pango
      * rename net to netbuffer library
      * rtp element renaming
      * stream selector fixes

Bugs fixed since 0.9.6:
    
      * 319618 : [decodebin] some ogg videos don't play
      * 320644 : RTP packetizer does't set the packet timestamps correctly
      * 322388 : xvimagesink force-aspect-ratio=True always displays squar...
      * 322704 : oggdemux typefind list leak

Changes since 0.9.5:
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * lots of leak fixes
      * flicker-free and rewritten X sinks
      * fractional framerates
      * removed sinesrc, replaced by audiotestsrc

Bugs fixed since 0.9.5:
    
      * 316442 : playbin should use autoaudiosink/autovideosink by default
      * 318353 : [ffmpegcolorspace] forward-port fixes from 0.8 branch
      * 320200 : vorbisenc: min-bitrate and max-bitrate are 1/1000 bps rat...
      * 321164 : gstringbuffer stops working under load
      * 321426 : ximage plugin should be renamed to ximagesink
      * 321446 : sinesrc should be dropped in favour of audiotestsrc
      * 321451 : GstRtpBuffer: no way to create a sub buffer with only the...
      * 321816 : [API] xoverlay API to post prepare-xwindow-id message
      * 321894 : vorbisenc doesn't compile
      * 322117 : Rename libgsttagedit to libgsttag

Changes since 0.9.4:
    
      * video caps now use a good range for framerate and w/h
      * oggdemux/oggmux improvements
      * playbin improvements

Bugs fixed since 0.9.4:
    
      * 319110 : [PATCH] oggdemux chain finding is slow
      * 320058 : playbin of a jpeg over http does not work
      * 320923 : [volume] doesn't build on Solaris
      * 321011 : gstbasertpdepayload doesn't send the " new segment " event ...

Changes since 0.9.3:

      * New element: audiotestsrc
      * typefind improvements
      * buffer-frames removed

Changes since 0.9.2:

      * RTP base classes

Bugs fixed since 0.9.2:

      * 313251 : ximagesink unused functions
      * 315159 : audioconvert lost 24 bit conversions in the rewrite