GStreamer Conference 2019 in Lyon France
So the GStreamer Conference 2019 is approaching being held in Lyon, France between 31st October and 1st November 2019. This year is special as it marks the GStreamer projects 20th year of existence. I still remember seeing the announcement of GStreamer 0.0.9 which Erik Walthinsen sent to the GNOME announe mailing list. Back then I felt that multimedia support where one of the big gaps around the Linux operating system that needed filling (no, XAnim was nice for its time, but it was not a long term solution :) and GStreamer seemed like the perfect project to fill it. So I joined the GStreamer IRC channel determined to try to help the project succeed however I could. A little over a year later we all met for the first time at GUADEC in Copenhagen, even posing for this exciting team photo.
GStreamer Team at GUADEC Copenhagen in 2001 (we all looked slightly younger and fresher back then.)
Anyway, 20 years later there will be a talk and presentation by GStreamer co-founder Wim Taymans (wearing blue shirt and black pants in picture above) at the GStreamer Conference commemorating 20 years of GStreamer. Detailing taking the project from idealistic spare time effort to the multimedia industry juggernaut it is today.
Of course the conference is not going to be focused on the past, as there is a long line up of great talks talking about modern streaming with DASH, HDR support in GStreamer, latest developments around GStreamer and Rust, Virtual reality, Vulkan and more. Actually on the ‘and more’ topic, Wim Taymans will also do a presentation on PipeWire, the next generation audio and video server, at the GStreamer Conference this year, hopefully demoing some of the great improvements in things like our pro-audio Jack emulation support.
So if you haven’t already, make your way to the GStreamer Conference 2019 website and register for the 10th annual GStreamer Conference!
For those going be aware that there will also be a joint GStreamer fall hackfest and PipeWire hackfest in the two days following the GStreamer Conference. So be sure to sign up for those if interested. They will be co-located with participants flowing freely between the two events.