                    GStreamer "Mobil Avenue" 0.7.3 released

   The GStreamer team is happy to announce our third release in the 0.7.x
   development series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework. The goal of
   this release series is to stabilize it towards a 0.8 release series which
   will be part of the GNOME 2.6 releases and hopefully eventually KDE 4.x.

   The 0.7 series is a development series and is aimed at developers. It is
   NOT API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series or with other
   releases in the series. This means you can not use this release to upgrade
   your current GStreamer installation and expect your GStreamer applications
   to keep working. It is parallel installable with the 0.6.x series however.

   This development series contains a lot of improvements compared to the
   0.6.x series and is a much better foundation for building advanced video
   handling applications. Below we list most of the major changes and
   additions. Most are included in this release, but not all are complete yet
   as they will be in time for the 0.8.0 release.

New/improved features in 0.7.3 release

     * Support for playback of WMA files.
     * Support for playback of AAC files.
     * Support for playback of Quicktime using Sorensen 1
     * Stabilizing playback library
     * gst-register handles broken plug-ins gracefully
     * New Real Demuxer (no decoder yet)
     * Support for playing some WMV files (needs more work)
     * Improved C based Matroska plugin
     * New specialized ximage and xvimage plugins for non-xv and xv X windows
       systems

Applications

   As mentioned there are some changes in API/ABI for this release. Many
   applications will probably be source compatible between 0.6.x. and 0.7.x
   however. Rhythmbox for instance works very well when compiled on 0.7.x.
   Gst-player do not work accross releases however, so we will make a
   separate release of gst-player with the needed fixes for it to work with
   0.7.x.

GStreamer Homepage

   More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
   http://gstreamer.net/.

Support and Bugs

   We use Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The "product
   name" is GStreamer (capital G).

Developers

   GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be checked
   out from there. Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and
   applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is
   sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary.

   We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix and
   True64 that would be willing to try building and testing GStreamer.
   Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.

Contributors to this release

     * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
     * Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com>
     * Julien Moutte <julien(AT)moutte.net>
     * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
     * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
     * Jeremy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
     * Leif Morgan Johnson <leif(AT)ambient.2y.net>
     * Benjamin Otte <in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de>
     * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
     * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
