GStreamer: IRC Channel has moved from Freenode to OFTC
Due to the widely reported issues at the Freenode IRC network, the official GStreamer discussion IRC channel has moved to #gstreamer on the OFTC IRC network alongside other Freedesktop projects. You...
View ArticleSeungha Yang: GStreamer Media Foundation Video Encoder Is Now Faster —...
GStreamer Media Foundation Video Encoder Is Now Faster — Direct3D11 AwarenessTL;DRGStreamer MediaFoundation video encoders (H.264, HEVC, and VP9 if supported by GPU) gained the ability to accept...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Rust bindings 0.17.0 release
A new version of the GStreamer Rust bindings, 0.17.0, was released. As usual this release follows the latest gtk-rs release. This is the first version that includes optional support for new GStreamer...
View ArticleVíctor Jáquez: Video decoding in GStreamer with Vulkan
Warning: Vulkan video is still work in progress, from specification to available drivers and applications. Do not use it for production software just yet.IntroductionVulkan is a cross-platform...
View ArticlePhil Normand: Introducing the GNOME Web Canary flavor
Today I am happy to unveil GNOME Web Canary which aims to provide bleeding edge, most likely very unstable builds of Epiphany, depending on daily builds of the WebKitGTK development version. Read on to...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: power-profiles-daemon: Follow-up
Just about a year after the original announcement, I think it's time to see the progress on power-profiles-daemon.Note that I would still recommend you read the up-to-date project README if you have...
View ArticleJan Schmidt: OpenHMD update
A while ago, I wrote a post about how to build and test my Oculus CV1 tracking code in SteamVR using the SteamVR-OpenHMD driver. I have updated those instructions and moved them to...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.18.5 stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the stable 1.18 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Cool happenings in Fedora Workstation land
Been some time since my last update, so I felt it was time to flex my blog writing muscles again and provide some updates of some of the things we are working on in Fedora in preparation for Fedora...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.19.2 unstable development release and git monorepo...
GStreamer 1.19.2 unstable development release The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second development release in the unstable 1.19 release series. The unstable 1.19 release series adds new...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop
So I have spoken about what is our vision for Fedora Workstation quite a few times before, but I feel it is often useful to get back to it as we progress with our overall effort.So if you read some of...
View ArticleThibault Saunier: GStreamer: one repository to rule them all
For the last years, the GStreamer community has been analysing and discussing the idea of merging all the modules into one single repository. Since all the official modules are released in sync and the...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: PipeWire and fixing the Linux Video Capture stack
Wim Taymans laying out the vision for the future of Linux multimediaPipeWire has already made great strides forward in terms of improving the audio handling situation on Linux, but one of the original...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: PSA: gnome-settings-daemon's MediaKeys API is going away
In 2007, Jan Arne Petersen added a D-Bus API to what was still pretty much an import into gnome-control-center of the "acme" utility I wrote to have all the keys on my iBook working.It switched the...
View ArticleJan Schmidt: 2.5 years of Oculus Rift
Once again time has passed, and another update on Oculus Rift support feels due! As always, it feels like I’ve been busy with work and not found enough time for Rift CV1 hacking. Nevertheless, looking...
View ArticleSebastian Pölsterl: scikit-survival 0.16 released
I am proud to announce the release if version 0.16.0 of scikit-survival, The biggest improvement in this release is that you can now change the evaluation metric that is used in estimators’ score...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.19.3 unstable development release
GStreamer 1.19.3 unstable development release The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the third development release in the unstable 1.19 release series. The unstable 1.19 release series adds new...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: CMSes & static site generators: why I (still) chose...
For many years, until 2021, the idéemarque* website was my own static HTML hand-written codebase, which had the advantage of performance and flexibility (vs “what a theme dictates”), but was also...
View ArticleVíctor Jáquez: GstVA in GStreamer 1.20
It was a year and half ago when I announced a new VA-API H.264 decoder element in gst-plugins-bad. And it was bundled in GStreamer release 1.18 a couple months later. Since then, we have been working...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: webassembly: the new kubernetes?
I had an "oh, duh, of course" moment a few weeks ago that I wanted to share: is WebAssembly the next Kubernetes?katers gonna k8sKubernetes promises a software virtualization substrate that allows you...
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