Christian Schaller: Open Source software and crowdsourcing
So thanks to crowd sourcing we are getting a lot of linux games coming out, titles such as Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, Spaceventure, Project Eternity, Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, Godus,...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: No GStreamer in this years Google Summer of Code
Some sad news, GStreamer did not get accepted to the 2013 Google Summer of Code. We don’t know the exact reasons, but all we can do at this point is redouble our efforts to get accepted again next...
View ArticleStefan Kost: 9 Apr 2013
buzztard & gstreamer hackfest This month I mostly cleaned up small bits and pieces from the gstreamer-1.0 port. Most notably multitrack encoding works again. The handling of EOS and starting of the...
View ArticleArun Raghavan: PulseAudio in GSoC 2013
That’s right — PulseAudio will be participating in the Google Summer of Code again this year! We had a great set of students and projects last year, and you’ve already seen some their work in the last...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: PiTiVi and the 2013 Summer of Code
This year will be a little bit different. In a rather unexpected turn of events, PiTiVi has been accepted as a mentoring organization but GStreamer has not. Fear not however, as GStreamer has no better...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: inside full-codegen, v8's baseline compiler
Greetings to all. This is another nargish article on the internals of the V8 JavaScript engine. If that's your thing, read on. Otherwise, here's an interesting interview with David Harvey. See you...
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Michael Sheldon: Erudite now available for Symbian Belle
OverviewErudite makes it possible to use Amazon’s Cloud Reader on various mobile platforms which aren’t officially supported by Amazon. You can either read books online, or download them for reading...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Brno GUADEC Call for Papers!
I would like to give everyone a friendly reminder that Friday the 27th of April is the official deadline for the GUADEC 2013 Call for Papers. So make sure to get your proposal submitted.We hope to have...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Core and Plugins 1.0.7 bug-fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug-fix release for the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. Check out the release notes for GStreamer core,...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: No more stuck rendering dialogs!
If you’ve tried rendering projects with Pitivi 0.15 or older, chances are you’ve encountered one of these dreadful situations where the rendering process would get stuck:…at the beginning, with the...
View ArticleThomas Vander Stichele: If I was 16 years younger…
I’d totally try and be the intern for pinboard.The money is great for a summer job, but that’s not the important part. pinboard seems interesting, it’s a real service, and it’s (I assume) small enough...
View ArticleThomas Vander Stichele: Votes for talks at open source conferences
I’ve never been a fan of voting for talks, because it tends to be poorly implemented under the guise of democracy. Of course it’s easy for me to talk, I’ve never organized anything at that scale.I’ll...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: generators in v8
Hey y'all, ES6 generators have landed in V8! Excellent!Many of you know what that means already, but for those of you that don't, a little story.A few months ago I was talking with Andrew Paprocki over...
View ArticleThomas Vander Stichele: morituri and Hidden Track One Audio
I have tomorrow (saturday) blocked out for a whole day of morituri hacking as I will be home alone.One of the things a lot of morituri users are puzzled by is its relentless drive to extract every...
View ArticleStefan Kost: 15 May 2013
buzztard is now buzztrax We applied as an organisation to take part in the Google Summer of Code program, but got rejected mainly due to the project name. As this was not the first time people where...
View ArticleThomas Vander Stichele: Organizing photo libraries
The weather’s picking up so it’s time for spring cleaning around the house. When I moved back to Barcelona three years ago I took with me my old analogue photos and negatives, with the idea of sorting...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Conference 2013: Registration now open, Call for Papers
About the GStreamer Conference The GStreamer Conference 2013 will take place from 22-23 October 2013 in Edinburgh (UK), and will be co-hosted with the Embedded Linux Conference Europe and the...
View ArticleArun Raghavan: PulseAudio 4.0 and more
And we’re back … PulseAudio 4.0 is out! There’s both a short and super-detailed changelog in the release notes. For the lazy, this release brings a bunch of Bluetooth stability updates, better low...
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Gustavo Orrillo: ac
Yesterday was a very important day for the Processing project, as a new stable version, “the 2.0″, has been released. This release is the result of the hard work of a small team of volunteers over the...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: no master
It's difficult for anyone with an open heart and a fresh mind to look at the world without shuddering at its injustices: police brutality, obscene gaps between rich and poor, war and bombs and land...
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