Yesterday, I released version 0.8.7 of gst-ffmpeg (GStreamer plugin based on ffmpeg, which provides support for encoding/decoding most popular codecs and container formats, such as MPEG-4 and h.264/AVC), and which now includes a free software decoder implementation for the QDesign Music 2 format, a format that is used by a lot of (Quicktime) trailers that you will find on apple.com.
It’s interesting to see how fast ffmpeg is progressing, the momentum in that project is simply amazing. I hope they will soon be able to complete their WMV9/VC1 decoder, which would probably lead to a new gst-ffmpeg release, also. Apart from that, I’m not planning on doing too much more work (though there’s one bug that tickles me…) on or releases for gst-ffmpeg (in the 0.8.x series).

Went to the cinema today with a friend (J.) and my girlfriend (D.), to watch the overly celebrated (or at least in geekspace) movie Serenity. Not biased by any knowledge of this Firefly-thing or whatever else I’ve seen mention of on slashdot, I considered the movie to be pretty good, although this “small girl beats crap out of army” thing really just doesn’t cut it. Fun nevertheless. Has some Matrix-like and Resident Evil-like elements. Good theme!

Next week, Jeroen (who’s coming over from the Netherlands) and I will be visiting the Gnome Summit in Boston. Not sure yet what I’ll hack on, but I’ll find something. There’d better be hacking, I haven’t touched any code in more than a month now.