Release Digest: GNOME, September 1, 2004 Sep 2, 2004, 04 :45 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2668 reads)
GStreamer Plugins 0.8.4
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
Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource
files for PalmOS-based pocket computers. The user interface is
modelled after Glade, the GNOME UI builder.
Can now be compiled with GCC 3.4 (thanks in part to Frederic Crozat)
Using the nice ComboBoxes from GTK 2.4 instead of the ugly old
OptionMenus
Lots of updated translations
Guikachu uses the GNOME 2 platform, particularly the GNOMEmm and GTKmm
C++ bindings. The ImageMagick library is used for managing bitmap
resources. To actually create the PalmOS resource files, you will also
need PilRC (part of the GNU PalmOS SDK) to compile the .rpc files
produced by Guikachu.
Beware of bugémons!
Cactus
Marlin 0.6
Marlin 0.6 - jubileeiraq.org
What is it?
Marlin is a sample editor for GNOME using GStreamer
JubileeIraq.org is an organisation promoting the idea that "The Iraqi
people shouldn't pay Saddam's bills". Jubileeiraq.org is in no way
affliated with the Marlin project or me.
Well, everyone likes pretty things so there's 2 pretty VU Meters in
the recording dialog. They don't work or do anything, but they look pretty. Its a long story why they don't work yet. It doesn't involve sheep in anyway.
The information in the information dialog can be editted. Well some
of it can. Some can't yet. It'll be saved too.
Marlin checks for the existance of a file before writing and asks
you if you want to make a
backup of it. Backups are not automatically created because
automatically backing up a
1.8Gig file every time might quickly eat up your disk space. And
that'd be bad.
So that data is never lost when writing, Marlin will write files to
a temporary file and only when that file is successfully written will it copy into the right place. This means that if aliens invade, or your house blows up in a gas explosion or even the mundane humdrum things like -ENOSPC or tripping over the powerlead happen while you are saving, then the original file won't be corrupted.
Whats not new?
No-one cares about this, but loads of code was moved around a bit.
Makes it nicer for the scores and scores of developers just itching to get their hands onto Marlin's wonderful 52k lines of code.
Most (but not all, yet) of the Channel code has been made far more
stable, and has been refactored so it is non-destructive. This is the start of the foundations for Undo/Redo. Isn't that exciting? I think so too...
Generally the user experience has been made loads better.
And lots of silly little bugs have been fixed too. In fact...I think
this release is 100% bugfree, but feel free to prove me wrong at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Big important thing:
This is the first ever release of Marlin that depends on actually
released tarballs of GStreamer. Don't think this'll be happening too
regularly, but you never know. This is why the VUMeters just sit there
looking pretty and rainbowy, because if I had hooked them up to do
something, then it'd have needed CVS HEAD of gst-plugins, and
requiring a CVS version of something the day after a release of said
thing would just be silly. So I left them unconnected. Feel free to
try to make them work, I won't stop you.
So there we go, yet another release of Marlin. If you want to send me
free stuff, go ahead. I like guitars (Fender Jaguar or early 90s Tele
Plus) or random effect pedals or anything really. I don't ever expect
anything, but hey, miracles can happen.
Just remember: "Float like leaf down river of life, *and kill old
woman!!*" ahem
iain
Gnumeric 1.3.2 aka "Did a skunk stinct the dinosaurs ?" is now available.
This release transitions from development to beta and begins the run up to
the next release. Emmanuel has been on a tear in the charting engine
improving the rendering and adding mapping support to axes. We've also been
busy in xls export. Jon K. added image export and I've been tweaking bits
to improve compatibility with MS formulas. We've finally landed Uwe
Steinmann's landed Paradox db importer. Re-enabling the psion importer and
ssconvert should put us back on par with 1.2.x.
NOTE : We have now jumped to a SAX based exported for .gnumeric files. It
is significantly faster and lighter but it is a major change. Please check
your double check your files.
The win32 port is structurally complete. All known patches have been
applied, and people have smoke test builds. It's not ready for production
use but with some tuning there should be an installer shortly.
Details
Andreas
Improve `F-Test' tool.
Some minor About box changes. (Bug 149247.)
Fix database functions. (Bug 149945.)
Emmanuel Pacaud
Add logarithmic mapping and invert axis support.
Zoom support for markers and error bars.
Move sharp libart rendering tweaks to pixbuf renderer.
Improve chart SVG export.
Improve chart printing. (Bug 132063.)
Fix minor tick rendering.
Add labels to radar axis. (Bug 144123.)
Don't clip markers to plot area. (Bug 139397.)
Harald Ashburner
Updates for the option pricers. (Bug 142255.)
Pricers for
American/European options to exchange one asset for another
Options on spreads between futures
Payouts on the most favorable state during a period.
Jody
Use SAX exporter by default.
Enable 'popup-menu' binding support.
Add tooltip for object resizing.
Misc ancient array formula parsing and entry problems.
Jump to lp_solve 5.0.
Jump to GLPK 4.5.
Add a View -> Windows menu.
Work on tightening up XL compat of array functions.
Improve xls export for obscure xl eval modes.
Improve XL/OO compat for RANK().
XLS import of full page charts.
sax export of comments without authors. (Bug 150530.)
fix breakage in ins/del col/row caused by dsum changes. (Bug 150792.)
Update the resize handles if the current object's size changes. (Bug
150578.)
XL can not handle plots with no data, filter them. (Bug 151144.)
center ticks for bar/col plots too. (Bug 151150.)
Clip large dbf files to compile time file limits. (Bug 143724.)
Jon K.
Export images to Excel.
Read images from native Gnumeric format.
Read and save images we cannot render without loss to and from Excel
and native Gnumeric format.
Add 'Save As' menu entry for image objects.
Add format chooser to 'Save As' dialog for images and graphs.
Resurrect the Psion Sheet importer.
Fix file drag from nautilus -> gnumeric.
Fix "Save changes?" bug.
Morten
Add Ctrl-5 for strike-through. (Bug 151152.)
Add Ctrl-Shift-D for double underline.
Fix error return for GEOMEAN and HARMEAN.
Fix IMCONJUGATE and IMABS for reals. [Bug 148323, backported].
New function INVSUMINV.
Fix crash with format toolbar in menu mode.
Fix crash on exit. [backported].
Fix ssconvert output.
Fix potential lexer crash.
Fix graph guru crash in the absense of graph plugins. (Bug 150821.)
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