Category Archives: General

I’ve moved to New York City this week; I’m now living on Cornell medschool campus. Next week, university introduction starts, including a Mets – Philies game and a cafe Wha? visit. And lots of academically relevant stuff, of course *ahem*. … Continue reading →

Jono Bacon, from LUG-radio fame, has published an article on Video Production on the Linux platform, featuring PiTiVi and GStreamer. Go read it!

So, Jeffrey and Ross showed their best sides in a funny misunderstanding, but Jeffrey had some good questions either way. Distributions will do their thing anyway, leacing the question: do the default applications really matter? GNOME has no photo-acquiring applications. … Continue reading →

So last week, I went off to Barcelona to visit the other Fluendo guys and do some final meeting before I leave off for New York in two weeks. Can’t deny, it has its charm; going to one of the … Continue reading →

Fun feeling, to “be home”. I got that feeling this week, after having been out a lot lately. First LugRadioLive in Wolverhampton, England, right that monday after my graduation, some hard days work, fully booked next weekend, some more hard … Continue reading →

Today, I graduated. At 15:00, I was in the lecture room. At 16:00, I gave a talk, which went well. At 16:40, I signed the final piece of paper. Drinks and dinner with friends and family, some more – excellent … Continue reading →

Finally, after all those years. Screw the words, we want screenshots: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, with #301312, #306555 and #166783 applied, your Totem with GStreamer backend supports DVD menus. All of it.

You’ll need all latest patches from #306555, #301312 and #166783 applied to enjoy this… With those, DVD subtitles will work (e.g. “gst-launch-0.8 playbin uri=dvd://” or Movie -> Open Disc in Totem). I hope to integrate this cleanly into CVS somewhere … Continue reading →

So while others are discussing on whether or not to ship Gtk+ 2.8 in GNOME 2.12, I’ve taken another approach to being (or trying to be) useful. All sort of small finetuning to Totem, integrating the volume control keybindings with … Continue reading →

So, yesterday morning, I was looking for something silly to do. So I decided to work on DVD subtitle support. Jan already did quite some work on it, but nothing working yet for me. Image blending The thing is, DVD … Continue reading →