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Launchpad code scanned by Ohloh

27 October, 2009 – 4:48 pm

Today Ohloh finished importing the Launchpad source code and produced the first source code analysis report.  There seems to be something fishy about the reported line counts (e.g. -3,291 lines of SQL), but the commit counts and contributor list look about right.  If you’re interested in what sort of effort goes into producing an application [...]

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Seeking in Transcoded Streams with Rygel

24 July, 2009 – 4:46 pm

When looking at various UPnP media servers, one of the features I wanted was the ability to play back my music collection through my PlayStation 3.  The complicating factor is that most of my collection is encoded in Vorbis format, which is not yet supported by the PS3 (at this point, it doesn’t seem [...]

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Watching iView with Rygel

6 July, 2009 – 4:50 pm

One of the features of Rygel that I found most interesting was the external media server support.  It looked like an easy way to publish information on the network without implementing a full UPnP/DLNA media server (i.e. handling the UPnP multicast traffic, transcoding to a format that the remote system can handle, etc).
As a small [...]

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More Rygel testing

19 June, 2009 – 12:06 am

In my last post, I said I had trouble getting Rygel’s tracker backend to function and assumed that it was expecting an older version of the API.  It turns out I was incorrect and the problem was due in part to Ubuntu specific changes to the Tracker package and the unusual way Rygel was trying [...]

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Ubuntu packages for Rygel

17 June, 2009 – 12:17 pm

I promised Zeeshan that I’d have a look at his Rygel UPnP Media Server a few months back, and finally got around to doing so.  For anyone else who wants to give it a shot, I’ve put together some Ubuntu packages for Jaunty and Karmic in a PPA here:

https://launchpad.net/~jamesh/+archive/upnp

Most of the packages there are just [...]

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django-openid-auth

14 April, 2009 – 4:25 pm

Last week, we released the source code to django-openid-auth.  This is a small library that can add OpenID based authentication to Django applications.  It has been used for a number of internal Canonical projects, including the sprint scheduler Scott wrote for the last Ubuntu Developer Summit, so it is possible you’ve already used the code.
Rather [...]

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Sansa Fuze

24 March, 2009 – 7:21 pm

On my way back from Canada a few weeks ago, I picked up a SanDisk Sansa Fuze media player.  Overall, I like it.  It supports Vorbis and FLAC audio out of the box, has a decent amount of on board storage (8GB) and can be expanded with a MicroSDHC card.  It does use a proprietary [...]

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PulseAudio

25 February, 2009 – 9:24 pm

It seems to be a fashionable to blog about experiences with PulseAudio, I thought I’d join in.
I’ve actually had some good experiences with PulseAudio, seeing some tangible benefits over the ALSA setup I was using before.  I’ve got a cheapish surround sound speaker set connected to my desktop.  While it gives pretty good sound when [...]

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In Montreal

25 February, 2009 – 4:12 am

I’m in Montreal through to the end of next week.  The sub-zero temperatures are quite a change from Perth, where it got up to 39°C on the day I left.
The last time I was here was for Ubuntu Below Zero, so it is interesting seeing the same city covered in snow.

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In Hobart

19 January, 2009 – 9:01 pm

Today was the first day of the mini-conferences that lead up to linux.conf.au later on this week.  I arrived yesterday after an eventful flight from Perth.
I was originally meant to fly out to Melbourne on the red eye leaving on Friday at 11:35pm, but just before I checked in they announced that the flight had [...]

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