Category Archives: General

ALSA support in GNOME Volume Control: yes, it’s there! I finally pushed myself into installing the ultimate evil onto my computer ([*] yes, that’s ALSA), and (helped by Jan Schmidt) added some related stuff to the ALSA plugin to get … Continue reading →

So, yesterday I finished autotoolification of ffmpeg. I sent Dave Schleef a patch (so he could do some assmbler magic to ffmpeg), and I’ve already integrated it (well, “sort of”…) in our new gst-ffmpeg module and am now watching Quicktime … Continue reading →

Short “hi” from Manhattan, New York City! I arrived here Sunday with a broken laptop, no internet or email access and a taxi driver that didn’t speak english (oh my, the odds). I’ve been to Cornell university for a few … Continue reading →

Today is my last day at work. I’ll have the next week off and after that, I’m hoping to live in Manhattan, New York City, to finish my studies (biomedical sciences) at the Weill Medical College (Cornell University) there. I … Continue reading →

Apparently, Julien wants me to fix ffmpeg’s codec wrappers so we can release a new GStreamer version. My boss just asked me to first work on MPEG transmuxing (we have a strange issue here that basically comes down to Windows … Continue reading →

Trying to integrate autotools (libtool, automake, autoconf) into ffmpeg. Oh my, I never imagined libraries could be this badly managed. Their configure script is more than a thousand lines of hand-written pure SH code. Their Makefiles are a sign of … Continue reading →

I’m currently working on a profile interface thingy for GStreamer. Think of an automated, simple way of saying how a file should be encoded in Sound Juicer or (hey 😉 ) GStreamer Recorder. Screenshot of the profile editor: see here. … Continue reading →

GStreamer:: The past few days, I’ve bene hacking on GStreamer Recorder more and more. It’s getting close to being in a releasable state. Yes, surely, I can record movies, what else is it useful for? ;). There’s small issues remaining … Continue reading →

I just committed some fixes to GStreamer CVS, and now I’m finally starting to see how totally wrong some things still are to make it as perfect as it needs to be and how much work this will need to … Continue reading →