Monthly Archives: December 2004

Subtitles #3 GStreamer is da bomb. .sub file from GUADEC of 2 years ago, plus Jakub’s cool GStreamer logo movie. TWD is near. :).

Subtitles part 2 Pics say more than words. You’re welcome.

Lagging competition Although GStreamer is said to be miles ahead of its competition in some aspects, we seriously lag in some pretty darn simple other cases. Worst of all, most developers don’t feel like those simple cases are of any … Continue reading →

Democracy can win For the second time in a matter of days, the Dutch government had to withdraw a rather controversial decision. Only days ago, an agreement with software giant Microsoft for delivering software to more than 250,000 computers over … Continue reading →

No-Bug-Week for GStreamer In the past few days, we solved an incredible amount of bugs. Most are things that reproduce with only a few movies, or only for some installations. I think this implies that we *are* actually getting better. … Continue reading →

New York revisited From my motivation letter: “Roughly one year ago, I stepped into the professor’s office in Utrecht, the Netherlands. “I’d like to give it a try”, was my short answer, and six months later I left off for … Continue reading →

Documentation Documentation are the paria of the free software movement. The thing is, you know you need them, but you don’t want to write them since it takes time. In the end, you spend 10x as much time explaining various … Continue reading →

One less reason why GStreamer sucks! Uh uh, you can’t say it anymore. Think of something better, dude! As of know, my local tree supports MMS, thanks to the wonderful work of Maciej. It’ll soon be checked into CVS, and … Continue reading →

GNOME-nl activities Today, we had our first official GNOME-nl bum. Four of us, being Erik, Vincent, Reinout and me left early in the morning to the east for a congress organized by Novell resellers. Lotsa businessmen, managers and other dangerous … Continue reading →

Something different The traitor, the trojan horse – or just a great gift? Given the recent invasion of the KDE camp by GStreamer, I decided to enlighten KDE and write a simple version of a Totem-like video player with a … Continue reading →