Category Archives: General

There we go again… I normally don’t care to blog about society, but today’s my #2 already. Theo van Gogh, maker of dutch films and documentaries on society issues, was murdered today. His TV shows were rather poor if you … Continue reading →

Today will be TV day. I’ll be one of those morons just watching TV to see which of the two creeps is gonna rule the world for the next four years. Yes, creeps, because if it were for the looks, … Continue reading →

Volume Applet: So the volume applet was almost perfect, until people started filing bug reports against it! Eek! Bad people. Screw you guys! I fixed most of ’em, except for the remaining two where I really don’t have the slightest … Continue reading →

Back from the death: I looked at GStreamer Recorder again tonight, for the first time in something like a year or so. I was annoyed by pretty much everything, but I won’t rewrite it. Instead, I’ll fix all the issues … Continue reading →

Totem in Fedora Yes, we’re in! I was happy to see Totem (based on a GStreamer backend) becoming a part of Fedora Core 3. I was even happier to see that people generally seem to like it. That, of course, … Continue reading →

Release time: I released a new version of the the GStreamer FFmpeg plugin today. Try it today! Disc content detection: Wrote some code (similar to the code in gnome-volume-control, in hindsight) to detect the type of disc that the user … Continue reading →

GStreamer: Talking about a heavy day… All of us worked hard on a release of GStreamer Plugins, when Wim suddenly found a stupid streaming media bug in the typefind element of our just-released source. So we decided to go for … Continue reading →

Totem/GStreamer: Finally got an annoying race in the GStreamer backend disappear. Also found a general performance issue (as in: the Xine backend suffered from it as well). In its current state, I’m actually enjoying Totem/GStreamer a lot. Note that this … Continue reading →

C#/Mono: Since I like Java so much, I thought Mono deserved a fair chance, so I decided to write my own hello world in Mono, and didn’t get too far. I was actually able to write my own Gnome.App and … Continue reading →

GStreamer & Totem: Fixed a few “hangs” (actually those aren’t hangs; they’re rather just operations that take many minutes) in the AVI demuxer and worked on the Realmedia demuxer together with Stephane. Actually succeeded in playing back a certain realmedia … Continue reading →