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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Presenting and hacking Pitivi at Pycon 2014
Pycon, or what I’d call the “main Pycon” (vs one of the sub-Pycons), has traditionally always been held in the United States of America. This year, it will be held in Montréal.The most astute among you...
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Zeeshan Ali: Geoclue 2.1.1
I just rolled out Geoclue 2.1.1! Since my last post with Geoclue update, there has been lots of changes. You can find a list of all the changes here but here are the highlights:Modem geolocation: If...
View ArticleArun Raghavan: Four years
Four years and what seems like a lifetime ago, I jumped aboard the ship Collabora Multimedia, and set sail for adventure and lands unknown. We sailed through strange new seas, to exotic lands, defeated...
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Bastien Nocera: Videos is here!
It's been some time in the making, with the redesign work started a couple of release cycles ago, but we finally reached a state where it's usable, and leaps and bounds easier to use than the previous...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Core and Plugins 1.2.3 stable release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a new release of the stable 1.2 release series. The 1.2 release series is adding new features on top of the 1.0 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Excited about Cockpit
So we had the DevConf conference here in Brno this weekend. One of the projects I am really excited about is Cockpit. Cockpit is a new server administration tool developed by Red Hat engineers which...
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Christian Schaller: Hardware encoding in Transmageddon
So thanks to the new GStreamer 1.x VAAPI package for Fedora I was able to do a hardware encode with Transmageddon for the first time today. This has been working in theory for a while, but due to me...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: Applying for a GSoC project is all about early...
This year, Pitivi‘s focus for GSoC projects will be a little bit different than in 2013. As you can see in our preliminary ideas page, there is much less GStreamer (or GES) work involved, as we tried...
View ArticleStefan Kost: 16 Feb 2014
gtk-doc Just released gtk-doc 1.20 with lots of bugfixes and feature request implemented (32 tickets closed). If you are a developer, fetch it and rebuild your docs - I hope you like the new look! The...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: compost, a leaf function compiler for guile
What's that out by the woodshed? It's a steaming pile -- it's full of bugs -- it's compost, a leaf function compiler for Guile!Around this time last year, a few of us cooked up some hack-dishes to...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: PiTiVi Fundraising Campaign – Why you should donate
So the PiTiVi announced the PiTiVi fundraising campaign on Friday. I sincerely hope they are successful, because I think we really need a good non-linear video editor that runs on the Linux desktop,...
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Bastien Nocera: Extend GNOME Videos with Lua
As you've probably seen in my previous post, the new Videos UI has part of its interface focused on various channels from online sources, such as the Blip.tv, or videos from the Guardian.Grilo recently...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer RTSP Server Library 1.2.3 stable release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the GStreamer RTSP Server Library for the GStreamer 1.x API series. Major changes include: Ported to GStreamer 1.0 APIMultithreaded for...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Pitivi status update for Q1 2014, fundraiser launch
Since my previous technical update in January, I haven’t had time to touch Pitivi’s code. Thankfully though, Alexandru Băluț has been filling the gap with a ton of refactoring work: around 150 commits!...
View ArticleMichael Sheldon: QML and Box2D Game Template for Ubuntu Touch
Tomorrow (Monday the 3rd of March) at 5pm UTC I’ll be giving a talk about QML and Box2D based game development for the Ubuntu App Developer Week, details of my talk can be found here:...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: PiTiVi fundraiser pass the 10 000 Euro mark
Hi, so I wrote A blog entry asking people to contribute to the PiTiVi fundraiser effort last week. I am happy to see them having already reached 10K Euro, but their goal of course is to get more. I am...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: es6 generator and array comprehensions in spidermonkey
Good news, everyone: ES6 generator and array comprehensions just landed in SpiderMonkey!Let's take a quick look at what comprehensions are, then talk about what just landed in SpiderMonkey and when...
View ArticleGStreamer: Gst Python, GNonLin and GStreamer Editing Services 1.2.0 stable...
The GStreamer project is pleased to announce the very first release of the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of gst-python, GNonLin, and Gstreamer Editing Services. Check out the GES release notes...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: stack overflow
Good morning, gentle hackers. Today's article is about stack representation, how stack representations affect programs, what it means to run out of stack, and that kind of thing. I've been struggling...
View ArticleArun Raghavan: GStreamer Hackfest 2014
Last weekend, I was at the GStreamer Hackfest in Munich. As usual, it was a blast — we got much done, and it was a pleasure to meet the fine folks who bring you your favourite multimedia framework...
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