Category Archives: General

Cupid I did some work on my video capture tool Cupid yesterday and today. I fixed some stability issues, crashers, added some sanity checks and I added a bunch of new features, amongst which: snapshot support (and since it has … Continue reading →

uraeus, to answer your question on the medical sector: there would be no such sector without patents. Medical research for a single drug can take up to many billions of dollars (or euros), with the end product being one single … Continue reading →

New toys require new toys I got a new laptop yesterday, woohoo and thanks Fluendo. Obviously, this means that I need to get a copy of World of Warcraft or I´d be spoiling CPU cycles on idle() instead. Somehow, it … Continue reading →

Subtitles Current CVS of GStreamer, plugins and Totem features subtitle and stream selection support. Go get it today. With many thanks, Felix has arranged RPMs for Fedora Core 3 once again (update: Felix also made a note on this himself): … Continue reading →

Select As you can see in this screenshot (clickertyclick), we now support language selection. The same method seems to work for selecting subtitles, too. In the screenshot, I’m swapping between an AC-3 and a LPCM soundtrack on a DVD. Note … Continue reading →

Cupid Tonight, I released a first version of Cupid, a GNOME-/GStreamer-based video capture application. See http://ronald.bitfreak.net/me/cupid.php for the download page and screenshots.

2005 Happy new year all. I have a bad headache… Mornings-after suck. Ohwell. :). Hands in my pocket Some people have shared thoughts and criticism on the help from around the world after last week’s catastrophe in Asia. I can’t … Continue reading →

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 →