Some time in 2012, the GStreamer team was busy working toward the GStreamer 1.0 major release. Along the way, I did my part and ported the DVD playback components from 0.10. DVD is a pretty complex playback scenario (let’s not talk about Blu-ray)

I gave a talk about it at the GStreamer conference way back in 2010 - video here. Apart from the ( Read more... )

Originally published at Verbal Diaryer.

I'd like to offer congratulations to all the Xiph folks, but especially Monty, Ralph and Tim on the theora-1.1alpha1 release from the Thusnelda encoder branch ( Read more... )

Nearly 4 months after the fact, my birthday is finally complete - my "Netherlands and Architecture" "Open Source" coin finally arrived from the Royal Dutch Mint:

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We're back at home after an awesome time in Istanbul, in which we attended GUADEC, did some sight-seeing (not enough), hung out with a bunch of really fun awesome people, and attended a great conference about what people are hacking on and planning for GNOME.

Friday
Arrived from Dublin around 11pm and got to the Golden Horn Sirkeci. Rang Wim & ( Read more... )

I can't remember if I've had to make a brown paper bag release, so we'll call this the first one. On Monday, I released 0.10.16 of the GStreamer Core and Base modules, and earlier today I released 0.10.17 of the same after we started seeing some reports of crashes ( Read more... )

Last night, I re-flashed my N800 with OS2008, and today my N810 turned up - I'm glad I elected to work from home today so I could play with it as soon as possible :) I was a little worried because I have heard at least 2 people that said their order was cancelled due to problems, one even after the item was reported as shipped! That, plus the fact ( Read more... )

My N810 is on its way. Thank you Nokia! I'm really looking forward to trying out the new hotness ( Read more... )

It's our last night in Barcelona tonight. 11am tomorrow, we'll be boarding a flight to Ireland, and Monday morning I'll be presenting myself at the Sun Microsystems Dublin office to get settled in ( Read more... )

Hacking

I committed Marc-Andre's patch for bug #152864 today, and closed the bug, which has been open since September 2004.

It adds the required GStreamer parts to close Bug 370937 - Exessive CPU Utilisation and fix 10 wakeups per second in the volume control applet - at least when an ALSA mixer device is chosen. Other mixers still require polling ( Read more... )