Monthly Archives: March 2005

Totem Mozilla Embedding Bastien already said that we had basic javascript functionality people working in the Totem-Mozilla plugin. Today, I finished the second part of the job: a two-way communication protocol. Should ideally use DBUS for that, but we’re using … Continue reading

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MP4 authoring After Jon’s release of pyMusique, I felt the strong need to get my hands on a working MPEG-4 ISO muxer (for GStreamer). Reasons are simple: Writing tags to music downloaded from iTMS (yes, they’re untagged!). Capture MPEG-4 video/audio … Continue reading

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Release day It’s kinda evil, but hey, why not? All poor packagers are busy already, so let’s give them some more work. I’ve released Cupid 0.0.2, which is a GStreamer/GNOME video-capture and -display tool, and GStreamer-FFmpeg 0.8.4, which is a … Continue reading

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GNOME-nl release party After the release of GNOME 2.10 and the congratulations from our KDE-nl colleagues, it was time to celebrate the release locally. A total of 10 people had a great evening in the Stairway to Heaven in Utrecht, … Continue reading

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European software patents I just heard multiple such rumours… After the EP (EU parliament) proposed to restart the directive decision-makery, after MPs (national parliaments) of many countries opposed the directive, after many citizens openly opposed the directive, after Denmark announced … Continue reading

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GNOME 2.10 release party At the day of the release (Wednesday, March 9th), GNOME-nl will be organizing one of the GNOME release parties to celebrate the release of our all-beloved GNOME 2.10. See this page for a complete list. Our … Continue reading

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iTunes Music Store #2 So, apparently, if you use iTMS on your Linux/GNOME machine, you can buy songs and play them back. Against all expectations, these songs are: not tagged (shame on you, Apple!) not encrypted (woohoo! love ya) Hey, … Continue reading

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iTunes Music Store Today (that’s a lie; it was yesterday), the tooth fairy knocked on my door again. I said “heya tooth fairy, what’ve you been up to lately?” and the tooth fairy just stood there, smiling, happy, glimming even. … Continue reading

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FOSDEM So this weekend, we had FOSDEM. There were some nice talks from various people, there was no working wireless network and I managed to have good chats with various great people. Same as always, great stuff. I met up … Continue reading

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