Category Archives: General

Recently, I decided to buy a new laptop. After some thinking, I figured: why not a Mac? Makes the OS (commonly referred to as MS tax) that they shove in your ass with new laptops actually useful. And still allows … Continue reading →

I was recently notified of this bug, which apparently means that DVD playback on Fedora Core 4 (or any other version of Fedora Core) does not work at all (crashes inside our ALSA plug-in). This has been around for several … Continue reading →

Fixing the WMV issues that I talked about earlier turned out to be remarkably simple. The early-EOS turned out to be a small data-feeding bug in Totem’s plugin itself, where we would sometimes write on a full buffer, which returns … Continue reading →

Previously, I wrote about trying to implement support for fancy quicktime-containing websites in the Totem-Mozilla plugin. Today, I finished it. It looks like this: What’s so special about this static website? Well, the three “$number P” images in the red … Continue reading →

now that the Totem Mozilla plugin is relatively stable, it was time to test and make sure that various often-used media formats play back fine. Playing fine means that all UI components behave consistently (seekbar, video window / seek slider … Continue reading →

A long while ago, I contributed to the mozilla plugin in Totem. It worked somewhat, but I kept seeing weird crashes here and there. Unreproduceable crashes, with no clear indication of what’s wrong. Rather than to assume this is related … Continue reading →

So it seems I’ve successfully finished quarter 1 in gradschool (chemical biology), and quarter 2 (cell signalling) is well underway, and appears to be going well; that is, better than quarter 1. This back-to-school experience has been hitting me a … Continue reading →

I had to make a presentation for one of my chemistry classes here, and they told us to use the excellent (but Win32/Mac-only) ChemDraw application for making our own chemical structures. Since I don’t own a Mac, that didn’t work … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I released version 0.8.7 of gst-ffmpeg (GStreamer plugin based on ffmpeg, which provides support for encoding/decoding most popular codecs and container formats, such as MPEG-4 and h.264/AVC), and which now includes a free software decoder implementation for the QDesign … Continue reading →

Went to the cinema today with a friend (J.) and my girlfriend (D.), to watch the overly celebrated (or at least in geekspace) movie Serenity. Not biased by any knowledge of this Firefly-thing or whatever else I’ve seen mention of … Continue reading →