The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series. It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.

The 0.10.x series has been reworked for threadsafety. It also features various feature additions and enchancements.

This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. For actual media playback, you will need other modules.

gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for distributors
gst-plugins-bad
contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect

Features of this release
Changes for asynchronous sink management
New ts-offset property on basesink for adjusting clock synchronisation
New GstController LFO feature
Fixes and improvements in latency measurement for live pipelines
Additional documentation and docs fixes
Faster typefinding
More tag types added
Improvements in various core elements and parent classes
New unit tests
Allow dumping pipelines as dot graphs
GstStructures now support nesting
URIHandler interface can now be implemented in bindings
Many other bug-fixes and improvements
Bugs fixed in this release
496722 : DSP/DSW files in win32/vs6 directory are in unix format
476514 : [queue] Doesn't forward EOS event in all cases
456573 : allow dumping pipelines as dot graphs
475723 : cleanup static caps correctly
480341 : Memory leak at fakesink (regression in cvs)
349410 : Problems with type handling
414539 : [API] Support more GST_TAG*_SORTNAME and remove MusicBrai...
459717 : [Controller] Add GstLFOControlSource that provides values...
459809 : [API] add GST_TAG_COMPOSER
461598 : Commit Hungarian translations from TP
461599 : Some files missing from POTFILES.in
464366 : program including gst/gstbuffer.h does not compile with -...
466595 : gst_index_add_association generates corrupted entries
469402 : File uri handling on windows broken
473846 : Deadlock if sink is unable to send first buffer
474371 : Can't build libsgtcontroller with VS6
474823 : tee unit test failure
478347 : GST_STATIC_PAD_TEMPLATE macro causes warnings with g++-4.2
478401 : gstbasesrc.c ref count bug
479784 : GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE() doesn't accept BSD and MIT/X11 licences
485343 : Implement a wait_eos function in basesink
487969 : allow nested GstStructures
492077 : Build issues on Windows/MSVC
493134 : Wrong GstObject signals registration
493983 : Build issues on Windows
494343 : pre-release vs6 patch
480858 : gstqueue code cleaning
486758 : queue element fails to re-negotiate caps upstream when si...
488201 : gst_segment_set_newsegment does not accumulate correctly
492729 : PAUSED- > PLAYING returns ASYNC when triggered from bus han...
494245 : [basesink] doesn't sync correctly if segment is in BYTES ...
API changes
API additions
gst_base_sink_get_last_buffer()
GstBaseSink::last-buffer
GstURIHandlerInterface::get_type_full
GstURIHandlerInterface::get_protocols_full
New tag: GST_TAG_ARTIST_SORTNAME
New tag: GST_TAG_ALBUM_SORTNAME
New tag: GST_TAG_TITLE_SORTNAME
New tag: GST_TAG_COMPOSER
gst_value_set_structure()
gst_value_get_structure()
GST_VALUE_HOLDS_STRUCTURE macro
gst_bus_pop_filtered()
gst_bus_timed_pop_filtered()
gst_base_sink_wait_eos()
gst_pad_peer_query()
GstBaseSrc:o-timestamp
gst_base_src_set_do_timestamp()
gst_base_src_get_do_timestamp()
GstBaseSink::ts-offset property
gst_base_sink_set_ts_offset()
gst_base_sink_get_ts_offset()
GstBaseSink::async property
gst_base_sink_set_async_enabled()
gst_base_sink_is_async_enabled()
gst_structure_get_uint()
GstLFOControlSource and functions