Release notes for Flumotion 0.8.1 "Fo Bar"

The Flumotion team announces a new release of the stable 0.8 branch of the Flumotion Streaming Server.

Flumotion is a streaming media server created with the backing of Fluendo. It features intuitive graphical administration tools, making the task of setting up and manipulating audio and video streams easy for even novice system administrators. Flumotion is released under the GPL.

Release overview

After some months of wild development, we recalled it was time to give a small update to our stable series by fixing some of the most annoying bugs we have bumped into.

We spent some time to fix some issues with the firewire producer and the effects it uses. As a result, that annoying choppy audio should be gone now.

Apart from that, this release includes some minor bugfixes and cosmetic differences that were added after 0.8.0. Below is the summary of the changes since the last stable release codenamed "7 Portes". Since last year's stable release a lot of improvements have been done in the development branch (a.k.a. trunk) which we're proud to launch now with this new stable series.

Features of this release

• Added Python 2.7 compatibility.
• The wizzard allows serving an HTML page with the video tag (for Ogg and WebM streams). Thanks Zaheer!
• The wizard and admin now remember the last directory used when exporting/importing a flow file to/from the filesystem.

Known issues

• The firewire producer may produce choppy audio with old versions of gstreamer-plugins-base. If possible upgrade to a version greater than 0.10.26.

Bugs fixed in this release

• 732 : manager and worker's ideas of registry may become out of sync
• 1365 : flumotion-admin doesn't remember the last directory of the flow file
• 1379 : flumotion + firewire in Ubuntu 9.10 - strange defaults
• 1424 : CPU bar is empty when >100%
• 1427 : status icon does not update if component is deleted
• 1429 : Shouldn't allow 0h for disker rotation
• 1465 : The disker doesn't name properly the first file using an Ical
• 1469 : Import Error with python 2.7
• 1489 : [effects][audiorate] The audiorate effect is not passthrough and forces a samplerate of 44100Hz
• 1491 : ivtv producer crashes when no width, height or deinterlacer are set
• 1492 : [flumotion-admin] Improve the way debug levels are set in the admin
• 1493 : [config] Check for invalid feederport ranges
• 1495 : We should offer an HTML5 page like we do with cortado
• 1497 : Consider the fact that a file could have been deleted when creating a bundle
• 1498 : wizard_gtk.py:542 AttributeError: "WebcamProducer" object has no attribute "size"
• 1499 : The python traceback is not decoded properly in the bug reporter.

Download

Flumotion Homepage

Support and Issues

Developers

git clone git://code.flumotion.com/flumotion.git

Contributors to this release

• Andoni Morales Alastruey
• Josep Joan Ribas
• Julien Le Goff
• Pau Capella
• Thodoris Paschidis
• Thomas Vander Stichele
• Xavier Francisco
• Xavier Queralt Mateu
• Zaheer Abbas Merali