The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins. At lot of important issues has been fixed in this release.

People experiencing problems with ALSA and GStreamer are strongly advised to test this release out.

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.

Features of this release
* Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
* Internationalization
* New translation in this release: Norwegian Bokmaal
* New translation in this release: Luca Ferretti
* Translations: af az cs en_GB hu nb nl or sq sr sv uk
* new element: polypsink
* new element: musepack decoder
* alsa fixes
* playbin fixes
* visualisation fixes
* support for cd://, cdda:// and dv:// uri
* v4lsrc fixes
* id3demux fixes
* avc-based Firewire camera support
* speex fixes
* tcp fixes
* multifdsink improvements
* ffmpegcolorspace fixes
* chained ogg support