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GStreamer Plugins 0.8.8 'Fluded' released

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We have another GStreamer plugins 0.8.8 release with a sizeable number of bugs fixed, 99 if my counting is correct. Ronald Bultje has continued his bugfixing work and also merged a lot of patches from many other contributors fixing and adding important stuff. We now support even more weird/broken files of various formats and more work has gone into improving DVD support (still not 100%).

A nice gimmick in this release is the puzzle plugin. So you can open gstreamer-properties and change the videosink to custom with something like 'puzzle ! xvimagesink' as the custom videosink. Then whenever you play a video in totem it will be a puzzle game and you need to puzzle your videos to view them.

A big thanks to both patch submitters and bug submitters. We wouldn't have been able to find and fix all this bugs without the great effort by the community to test and help us find testcases to identify bugs. Keep up submitting bugs and we will continue to try and fix them.

mad decoder skips a few seconds?

the mad plugin in 0.8.8 seems broken. it plays for 4 seconds, then skips a few and plays the rest of the song. i dont know about 0.8.7, but this wasnt in 0.8.6. i hope this will be fixed in 0.8.9, i really love gstreamer :)