I’ve pushed some new changes to my Raspberry Pi camera GStreamer wrapper, at https://github.com/thaytan/gst-rpicamsrc/

These bring the GStreamer element up to date with new features added to raspivid since I first started the project, such as adding text annotations to the ( Read more... )

Way back in 2006, Andy Wingo wrote some small scripts for GStreamer 0.10 to demonstrate what was (back then) a fairly new feature in GStreamer - the ability to share a clock across the network and use it to synchronise playback of content across different machines.

Since GStreamer 1.x has been out for over 2 years, and we get a lot of questions ( Read more... )

I’ve been home from Europe over a week, after heading to Germany for the annual GStreamer conference and Linuxcon Europe.

We had a really great turnout for the GStreamer conference this year


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I received a package in the mail today!


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Some time in 2012, the GStreamer team was busy working toward the GStreamer 1.0 major release. Along the way, I did my part and ported the DVD playback components from 0.10. DVD is a pretty complex playback scenario (let’s not talk about Blu-ray)

I gave a talk about it at the GStreamer conference way back in 2010 - video here. Apart from the ( Read more... )

Hi world! It’s been several years since I used this blog, and there’s been a lot of things happen to us since then. I don’t even live on the same continent as I did.

More on that in a future post. Today, I have an announcement to make - a new Open Source company! Together with fellow GStreamer hackers Tim-Philipp Müller and Sebastian Dröge, I have ( Read more... )

Originally published at Verbal Diaryer.

I gave a talk at the second Dublin OSSbarcamp yesterday. My goal was to provide some insight into the goals for GNOME 3.0 for people who didn't attend GCDS.

Actually, the credit for the entire talk goes to Vincent and friends, who gave the GNOME 3.0 overview during the GUADEC opening at GCDS and to Owen for his GNOME Shell talk. I stole content ( Read more... )

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We're leaving tomorrow afternoon for 11 days holiday in New York and Washington D.C. While we're there, I'm hoping to catch up with Luis and Krissa and Thom May. It's our first trip to either city, so we're really excited - there's a lot of fun, unique stuff to do in both places and we're looking forward to trying to do all of it in our short visit ( Read more... )